No African team will ever win the World Cup.

Your overall point is true, but I see Nigeria as the first WC champion coming from outside of SA or Europe.

 

Considering what a crap shoot the WC is once you get to the knock out rounds, I don't know how anyone could make a proclamation like this. Anything can happen, and if World Cups are played for the next 200 years, then statistically there'd be a good chance Africa would eventually win one of those.

 

Ever is quite a long time
I'm sure we've witnessed a few events that were predicted to never happen

 

Of course, I don't think this generation will win it for Nigeria, but neither will this generation win it for Japan, even if they may advance farther at the WC. My belief that Nigeria shall win it before Japan, or anyone else outside of UEFA or Conmebol, is implied in your own commnet. They are tactically naive, but tactics are relatively easy to correct and instill, the same was often said of Spain, with its long footballing tradition, that they tried to play the game beyond their capabilites which resulted in earlier than anticipated exits at the WC, right before the last WC they had only reached one WC semifinal in their history. Then they improved on their tactics and strategy, they developed a couple of clutch players they had previoulsy lacked, particularly Iniesta and Casillas, and then it all changed. The talent is obvious for Nigeria, more so than Japan, and I see their mistakes as growing pains that should be corrected as the nation grows in footballing stature.

 

Football its not NBA.... I dont know if "ever"....but i dont see no African Team winning a WC in the next decades... The best African Teams would not qualify in most of European Groups of qualification to the WC ... Thats the truth...Football its much more than a phisical Sport... No matter if you are Black, white or yellow .... like in NBA or American Football...where it does...

 

Obviously a troll thread, regarding this poster history. Japan is too naive defensively to win a World Cup soon . They have better fullback yet they have already allowed 7 goals in two games ?? They played very well against Italy yet they allowed 4 goals during this match... Teams with "great tactical awareness" don't take so many goals, no matter the level of the teams they face. If you knew anything about international football you would know that defense win tournaments. Secondly you will be able to speak about an asian victory when asian teams will be able to send at least one team in KO stage twice in a row, which has yet to happen ( Many thought that they had arrived after the 2002 WC).
That being said I don't think that we will see a non European/South American WC winner soon.

 

African teams had a disastrous campaign at the last WC. The cup was played in Africa but they were terrible. Only one of six African teams qualified for the second round even though African and South American teams were put in the same pot. Things are, if anything, getting worse. I won't be surprised to see no African teams in the second round in 2014.

Btw, Nigeria haven't advanced to the second round since 1998.

 

LOL Tahiti! They finally scored a goal!

 

Still around as zahzah.

 

It's a long shot, but I think portugal will win 1 in the next 100 years. Also because of seeding, and injuries/red cards, perhaps a chile/colombia can win it as well.

 

Worms spreading his envy and hatred all over the place.....i guess is africa's turn


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Why? The world cup has allready been held for 83 years, and of 19 world cups 12 of them have been won by only 3 country (Brazil 5, Italy 4, Germany 3). 17 of them by only 5 (add 2 apiece for Argentina and Uruguay). 3 of the 4 top contenders for next summer's world cup come from amongst those 5 nations too.

 

Portugal, Colombia, Belgium, Japan (With a world class striker) is all definitely within the realms of possibility.
That said, I know this might sound crazy. But Ivory Coast 2010 with Uruguay’s draw for example could have won it. Drogba is a type of player that wins cup competition with his playing style

 

You are forgetting a lot of things. The World Cup truly became THE world cup in 98 before then it was the South America-Europe cup with invites. Also while Europe prospered with parts of South
America majority of the world were turmoil.

And since football was a European game; it isn’t a wonder why they won the most with South American nations with heavy European influence.

Also definitely within the next 2 decades, Europe will have to give up at least 3 spots to Asia(Definitely rising) and Africa if it improves its economic situation and football overall.

Football is new to a lot of places especially Asia and many nations are JUST NOW finding their own feet.

 

You're having a laugh with that one. African teams have yet to perform truly well in a world cup, and outside of South Korea's massively corrupt run in 02, neither have Asian nations. I am sure that eventually those regions will produce better quality - and yes, already you are seeing some more quality from Asia and more of their players making an impact on the global game. But we are a long, long way from either of those condfederations deserving to take spots from Europe.

 

Just look at 2010, Japan with ease beat Denmark and gave the Dutch a tough match. South Korea walked through Greece and gave Uruguay a tough match as well. Australia beat Serbia as well. The lower ranked European team like Greece, Denmark, Switzerland, Slovenia or Slovakia for example are not better from the best of Asia and Africa.

The Asia confederation has done well for itself and definitely with 20 years should be given one more spot. I don’t want to engage in politics but the rise of Asia is evident and a lot of Asian nations such as China, Thailand, are following SK-Japan’s model. Also with major reforms in Australia expect a stronger Australia squad in the next coming decade. And you have Uzbekistan coming up and Iraq coming out of war and spending big on football.

Like I said for Africa, it has to show a lot for it to be given more spots. I definitely think Africa can turn around everything in at least 20 year. This is a BIG IF