"To make it a world event you need to invite the world. Yes, OFC is needed, because like it or not they are a separate confederation, and deserve...
New Zealand is by far the least meritorious of those countries to auto qualify. Also you don't need to make up confederations to get those...
My bad. We all make mistakes.
The idea of inter confed qualifying is fine my issue is with the ratio which is very unfair to UEFA at the expense of the other confeds especially...
Having more people means little if they aren't being trained or prepared properly. The US might have more overall soccer players too than the most...
Should they get an auto slot? Oceania is basically Australia and the surrounding islands and without Australia it's basically a fake confederation.
Well Asia or most of Asia has the issue the US has which is that they have other sports they care about and soccer simply isn't a priority. I feel...
"The World Cup isn't about the best 32 (48 or 64) teams in the world competing against one another. Even if that was truly measureable by...
I mean Sweden and Switzerland was a dull round of 16 game, the most dull IMO of the knockout stages. Those teams belonged at the world cup though...
But 16 teams is already not proper proportion and UEFA agreed to it for other advantages. So your system already is kicking out deserving teams....
But the 48 team finals proposal has 16 teams from UEFA and they are already not properly represented. 48 out of 64 is even worse. Not as bad as 8...
Disagree on qualifiers. Just random games against random teams spaced out over years. In terms of the FIFA rankings of course they aren't perfect,...
I guess intercontinental qualifiers would be the best way to do it "not based on history and pedigree". I would still prefer rankings but it would...
But they aren't nations(at least for now) really. The reason they exist is because they previously existed and they didn't want to change the...
The counterargument would be that the usual suspects being absent makes the tournament less popular. Now I would disagree and think the absence of...
Yugoslavia doesn't exist though and when it did Croatia didn't have it's own team. We saw what Yugoslavia was capable of and Croatia has largely...
I mean this was a somewhat reasonable request. Those aren't separate countries for any purpose except soccer(for now). Should the separate former...
If historical underdogs start playing like powers, historically ELO has rewarded them and rewarded them fast.
No it wouldn't be. Under your model half the teams would be from those two regions and that would be more representation than under the actual one...
But according to your own analysis, "okay" European teams are going to be left out of the World Cup in favor of a whole lot of teams from other...
This is reasonable. 20 teams for UEFA is about right. What was the dispute again? There's 35 teams here and UEFA has 20 spots, there's certainly...
Korea I think is the weakest example. Korea is the country that has done the least with the most chances. They've played 34 world cup games and...
Wasn't specifically endorsing that list of 48, Ghana and Egypt for example are the two African teams I look forward the most to see. I'm just...
If anything actually get less spots than they should based on rankings. According to elo rankings before the tourney they deserved 17, after the...
But only UEFA team will be in each group. Thought you were referring to chances to advance. If the best teams only represent part of the world so...