World Cups - Every 2 years or 4 years?

[Keshwardoost]

^ yupp, made me remember the Kanoute 1-0 days.. they have been there for al long time now
and they been cashing in from the europa league victories for a while now..

[Doctor DOOM]

side note-
Sevilla?
They're very well respected & great team (until they play vs Barca, of course)
if by "top teams" you mean the top 10. Yes.
But theyve done extremely well given their resources.

[PSGman#19]

Btw What allowed a team like atletico (once in 2nd division) to grow and be considered like a world top team? Playing and performing in CL almost every year. If the team had to wait 4 years to play CL, knowing they won't perform brilliantly each time due to a strong competition, they would never had such breakthrough.

Why Sevilla aren't considered among top world teams? Because they don't play CL every year and when they do they never go far

[PSGman#19]

bro, this can EASILY be achieved.
by having a country that respects international norms, respects its neighbors & their rights, and stops making enemies of everyone.... on DAILY basis!!!
once that's done, the rest fall into place.
We'd have the entire world open to us.

But that's not the case now, and we don't know how long it will take. And even SK, Japan didn't succeed in becoming world powerhouse on the long term, because at the end, they are stuck in crappy Asia

The rest of the world (Europe and South America) are filling the empty spot with useless nation league and copa America every year. Even if Iran become what you describe, we will have hard time finding good opponents

[Doctor DOOM]

What is more important between the prestige of the cup (CL is played every year and doesn't lack prestige+ Olympic football is played every 4 years and has 0 prestige) and TM development?

Iran Football works in quasi total autarcia, relying only on domestic and weak Asian to develop. People here expect us to beat SK 4/0 and play like spain but how it's possible when you spend 4 years to play syria, iraq have no access to friendlies and high profile coach? During these 4 years, we lose our time with iraq, we don't progress much and we go mad when we can't beat japan/SK (the only decent games we have)

bro, this can EASILY be achieved.
by having a country that respects international norms, respects its neighbors & their rights, and stops making enemies of everyone.... on DAILY basis!!!

once that's done, the rest fall into place.
We'd have the entire world open to us.

[Keshwardoost]

every 4 years, those morons are gonna ruin football as we know it.. its enough with the 3 games per group its bad enough.. i like the exitement it brings with being 4 years to next wc.. its exclusive.. they are going to turn it to ice hockey world cup if they continue... its only missing the ridiculous point system of the handball world cup now, where points follow the teams in to the next groupstage..
just let it be.. i start to miss the old corupt dogs such as Blatter now when these bastardos are changing everything

[Doctor DOOM]

Four years and 16-24 teams is what's good for soccer. Two years and 48 teams is good for the woke crowd.

1- 16??? That's overkill again. It's like falling off the other side of the table.
even 24.
I think the present 32 is a sweet spot that gives enough chance to those worthy (it's for them to fail to qualify), while keeping majority of teams that only bring down the quality of the games, out ... and saving them great embarrassment in the process.


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and on a NON-FOOTBALL related matter:
2- F#&k the "woke" crowd.
One of the most despicable, disgusting new phenomena in today's world.
pretentious, braindead, irrational f*%kheads that they are. Plagues of societies.

[PSGman#19]

Easy answer….4

The 4 years and 32 team model makes it the prestigious tournament that it is. The footballing world needs to do everything they can to keep it that way otherwise, it looses its prestige and honor it has for the teams that qualify.

What is more important between the prestige of the cup (CL is played every year and doesn't lack prestige+ Olympic football is played every 4 years and has 0 prestige) and TM development?

Iran Football works in quasi total autarcia, relying only on domestic and weak Asian to develop. People here expect us to beat SK 4/0 and play like spain but how it's possible when you spend 4 years to play syria, iraq have no access to friendlies and high profile coach? During these 4 years, we lose our time with iraq, we don't progress much and we go mad when we can't beat japan/SK (the only decent games we have)

[Ghermez Agha]

Easy answer….4

The 4 years and 32 team model makes it the prestigious tournament that it is. The footballing world needs to do everything they can to keep it that way otherwise, it looses its prestige and honor it has for the teams that qualify.

[khabalood]

if its every 2 years than what is the point of euro cup asian cup ETC

There are no continents in a one world government situation. The additional world cup tournaments will be necessary to replace the regional tournaments. This is all just propaganda for the future, when UN agenda 2030/2025 is completed.

[KC McElroy]

Four years and 16-24 teams is what's good for soccer. Two years and 48 teams is good for the woke crowd.

[PSGman#19]

As a team melli fan we want our team to play the best. We are all unsatisfied to have :

- 0 friendlies, specially against good teams. When we have, bosnia field a B team.
- only asian games with low level and 0 coverage
- as a result, TM prestige is low as 4 years (even 8 years) completely delete all the good things we showed at the previous world cup.
- as a consequence, our prestige is low, international media, fans and football worlds mocks us at each WC. Our players are underrated and don't get the transfer they deserve

[PSGman#19]

if its every 2 years than what is the point of euro cup asian cup ETC

The world cup is already an euro with the addition of exotic teams. I find continental competition useless, who cares who is champion of Europe, asia etc.., why not decide who is champion of west Europe, east Europe then.

[Doctor DOOM]

^^^ well, each continent needs to have its own tournmnt as well.

what they may try to do is dissolve WCQ's and continental cup games into one. (I'm not sure of their plan. But anything outside of this is ridiculous madness) so the top 5/6 ... or now, probably the top 17 (f&$k you very much Infantino) Asian teams in ASIA CUP directly qualify for the WC.
That way they may offload a whole lot of games off the calendar.


I havent seen Wenger's proposal yet.

[PSGman#19]

The ideal would have been a WC every 3 years. But for Iran, 2 years is good too.

To answer your statement :

- CL is every year and it has still prestige.

- we should and are currently qualifying for every wc since 2014. Even since 1998 we only missed two wc. The joy of qualification doesn't exist for wc regular.

- I can understand an European that gives importance to eurocup but asian cup, come on. We already play crappy Asian side in friendlies and wcq. Even with asian cup+wcq+asian cup we never played other top asian teams like Australia and KSA.

- everybody is critical with a wc every two years but the mail problem is useless games like nation league, euro with 24 teams, wc with 48 teams, qualifiers for both euro and wcq, copa America every year