OK, in the spirit of Crazy_Yank's "Most improved team" How about naming your "World National Team League" 16 teams to a division. WPL..."A"...and "B"
Well, assuming we should, initially, have some representation from a wide area instead of just Europe and CONMEBOL, I'll submit the following in no particular order: Premier Division: France England Brazil USA Senegal Germany Argentina Cameroon South Korea Spain Italy Portugal Turkey Mexico Nigeria Ireland First Division: Switzerland Netherlands Costa Rica Japan Norway Sweden Uruguay Colombia Honduras Ghana Egypt Scotland Russia Denmark Wales Poland Second Division East: South Africa Iran China Australia Saudi Arabia India Morocco Libya Angola New Zealand Second Division West: Jamaica Trinidad & Tobago Venezuela Ukraine Hungary Bulgaria Romania Guatemala Israel Czech Republic
This is a crazy idea, but in the interest of fun - I will bite: Either Ireland or Portugal should give way to Netherlands and possibly Denmark, as well. Sweden is pretty much getting ripped off too. How would relegation/promotion work? After the first year or two, wouldn't it be predominantly European? I mean, I am no Europhile, but with the depth that their teams would possess, I would think it would be very difficult to maintain the balance between the various regions. And teams like Sweden and Denmark would rise to the top pretty quickly, while Nigeria and Senegal would probably struggle against this type of opposition week in and week out.
Yes, you're right it would. I don't think the African teams would suffer too much -- at a minimum I think some of the top African teams would bounce between Premier & First. But I just said (my opinion only) that the initial construct should have some representation from all over. If teams can't stay in the Premier League, they can't say they weren't given a fair shot.
WTF? South Korea, Ireland, Senegal, MEXICO? Portugal's barely deserved of a Top spot. How can you put those teams in and put Holland in the First Division?
I disagree. As big a fan as I am of the United States, I think that in LEAGUE PLAY, they would be far less successful than they were in CUP PLAY. If you think about it, the World Cup is a tournament in which form, a hot goal scorer and/or a hot/dodgy goalkeeper can have major consequences on a team's performance. Frequently the best team - or at least many good teams - fail to advance because of stupid mistakes or a freak goal (or referee decisions). However, in a league that stretches 20 or so matches out over a longer period of time, you find that teams that do well in cups often suffer. The better teams assert their quality over the course of the season as the stupid mistakes and/or freak goals and referee decisions balance out. This is true in England, where mercurial teams like Tottenham are frequently challengers in cups and stronger overall teams like Arsenal or Leeds do not progress so far. I don't think that the African teams have the consistancy or depth to fare well against a France, Italy or even England over the long haul. However, well-organized defensive teams like Sweden or Denmark would be well-suited to dig in and get good results.
Maybe these just these ones. Premier Division: Argentina Brazil England France Germany Italy Uruguay Thse are the only ones the deserve to be in the premier division because they are the only ones that have provern themselves in the past to be worthy of such a fine competition.
no Uruguay deserve it on there performances in 1930 and 1950. they would of won more had they not decided to pull out of the 34 and 38 cups.
The soccer powers we have today are the ones that i have put on the list. Apart from Uruguay but they will rise to power again anyway so it dont matter.
Its insane, but I'll go ahead and bite on this one anyway. World Premier League Argentina Brazil China England France Germany Italy Japan Korea Rep. Mexico Netherlands Nigeria Russia Saudi Arabia Spain Sweden Turkey USA Hey--they would want to guarantee the best possible worldwide audience, wouldn't they?
Argentina Brazil Uruguay Colombia England Czech Republic France Germany Italy Netherlands Denmark Sweden Norway Spain Portugal Croatia Japan South Korea Nigeria Senegal Egypt Tunisia Marocco Something like that.
I picked 18-team divisions. WPL "A": Argentina Brazil Cameroon Czech Republic England France Germany Ireland Italy Japan Mexico Netherlands Portugal Senegal South Korea Spain Turkey USA WPL "B" Australia Belgium China Colombia Costa Rica Croatia Denmark Egypt Honduras Iran Nigeria Paraguay Russia Saudi Arabia South Africa Sweden Uruguay Yugoslavia
*lol* that's the worst list yet. I fail to see how teams who didn't even qualify for the cup deserve to be in the WPL. Holland can promote be winning the 1st division.
youre goin to have all of those african countries and not have turkey, us, mexico and rieland and others?