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You are right I am done
I am arguing with Matt Damon.

 

Conmebol vs Uefa debates with Maths and Biology...how exciting!

 

LOL, USSR and Yugoslvia are Brazil? Only in your dumb Eurocentric fantasies.

 

No but they regressed after they split. That is my point. You are so illogical it's mindblowing
Or shall I call you dumb too?

 

I do not ever remember caring whether UEFA is better than anyone else? Do you?

 

You must have missed WC98, btw.

 

Nope, don't really give a shit!

CONCACAF on the other hand! Neither UEFA or CONMEBOL can hold a candle to them!!

I can't decide who's more boring today. The CONMEBOL team with the best player in the world. Or the UEFA team without the best player in the world?

 

Except for the 70s with Cruyff, it's always been that way, hasn't it!

 

What's happened to this thread?

The last 30-40 posts have been full of shit (excluding mine).

 

If you say so!

No you're wrong. You stepped into this (shit) hence by default your post is full of it too!

 

No he didn't.
He only considered those teams that ended last in each group of those WC's, and the Confederation to which they were from.
Italy ended one spot over England. And Portugal ended over Ghana.

 

Brazil in the beginning used to play only with regional teams as their NT, and even after they started winning it would be either the Rio League or the Sao Paulo league representing our NT because of the rivalry. When both United that's when they started dominating.

 

I'm not sure I actually think UEFA qualifying helps certain teams get to the WC, I mean group G and group E are laughable for a direct place into the WC.

 

i'm not sure this statement is sustainable. i have no idea how the geographic divisions would fall, but it's very likely that a much greater percentage of players would come from two of the areas than from the third. i think your assumption would hold up better if you said "if Brasil was divide in two".

in either case it's an interesting question.

 

Three regions: Sao Paolo and adjacent states, Rio de Janeiro and adjacent states, Rest of Brazil. Each one a powerhouse.
Likewise, you could divide Argentina in two: Buenos Aires province and Rest of Argentina.

 

have you done research to see where players actually come from, or do you know off the top of your head.

for example, of the 3 net-minders in the current squad, no one comes from "The Rest of Brasil".

 

if it was divided it would be, Southern Brazil (Parana, Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina) they have been trying for years already. Then you would have Sao Paulo, Minas, Rio, Espirito Santo, and the rest of Brazil.

Northern part of Brazil would be a powerhouse (Italy/Germany/current Brazil), SP, RJ, MG and ES would be equivalent to Spain/Dutch, while the southern Brazil would be like Uruguay, Belgium, Portugal.

 

That's not the point, the point is each region would field a competitive side at the WC. Historically, each would be a powerhouse.

 

not if players from Brasil mostly come from Rio or Sao Paolo and adjacent states

 

Here is the breakdown for the current selecao.

SP/MG/RJ/ES -> most developed football part of the country, hence so many players from here
Jefferson - Thiago Silva - Sao Paulo - Marcelo - Paulinho - Fred - Neymar - Oscar - Julio Cesar - Maxwell - Ramires - Luiz Gustavo - William - Bernard - Jo - Victor

Nordestinos -> poorest part of the country but the most doente por football (football oriented culture), if they developed their players like the southern regions do nobody would touch Brazil, most players that come out of this region they do because they are just that much better than anybody else.
Daniel Alves - Hulk - Dante - Hernanes

Sul -> rich part of the country, develops players in the same manner as a lot of smaller European nations, it's where you see a lot of the richer kids playing football professionally instead of the poor kids like the other 2 regions.
Fernandinho - Henrique - Maicon

 

We can all see that [emoji14]

 

so, is Pipi correct or am i more on the right track?

 

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edit: when your post originally came up, it showed this: emoji14, not the emoticon that now shows.

so, not knowing anything about emoji14, i googled it and decided it was a Japanese game show, on cursory examination.

 

Just cant picture Hulk being so much better than everybody else in that region.