What an incredible job Lionel Scaloni has done for Argentina. Made them practically unstoppable.
Can we go play in europe? Conmebots are too easy
In March next year there will be some friendlies between South American and European teams.
The world Cup champions and then us. What a view.
Wallahi we’re finished.
If Berizzo and Milad are still there by time I wake up, imma go and fire them myself.
I’ve always liked how clean the CONMEBOL World Cup qualification is, just all 10 teams in a round robin league table format with 18 games. In contrast AFC is so huge there are so many rounds of qualifying to go through.
That, and the best teams in the zone will always play each other as part of the qualifiers.
Club competitions are also split into zones, not a big fan of this but I guess the sheer geographic size of AFC and clubs having less resources makes it impractical to have a truly continent wide competition until the later stages.
Some people keep saying that CONMEBOL and CONCACAF should merge and play the qualifiers and continental competitions together, but it’s most likely an unified confederation would follow the same zonal model used by the AFC, thus rendering an unified confederation basically useless.
Maybe, the only zone would be the Caribbean, which CONCACAF already has its own separate thing for them to get into qualifying with the rest of the continent. Probably keep that and let everyone else play a more together deal.
Other than that you have way less countries in a combined confederation than AFC.
Also a huge difference in a combined Americas federation and AFC is time zones. Travel is more brutal going east and west because of time zones like you do in AFC. In an Americas federation the time zone changes are not near as drastic.
The time zone change between the Middle East and Japan is 6. The time zone change between Brazil and the Mountain time zone is 3. The Pacific time zone is 4, but that’s a small part of America, Canada and Mexico who all three have closer time zones.
With Canada and America having an eastern time zone which is a difference of one, and Mexico having Mountain time and a sliver of central (don’t think there is a stadium in their very little central).
So the biggest time zone difference for Brazil and Mexico would be 3, all others in CONCACAF can keep it at 1.
I have always thought it should be a tournament out of itself. Especially now with so many teams qualifying, it would give all teams something to fight for until the end
In that case, just make the 4 Copa America semi finalist qualify. But I prefer it the way it’s now, it helps building a team long term and better prepared for the WC.
Because they don’t have many countries in conmebol
I love it but it’s a gauntlet of a knife fight. So many grudges, so many tough away trips.
My only frustration is how long it takes—this cycle won’t be over until September 2025.
I think that’s the beauty of it though. A World Cup campaign truly is a 4 year run/cycle here in South America.
100%
It’s kinda crazy, there is a realistic possibility that Venezuela finishes 2nd by the end of the year. If Argentina wins vs Brazil and Uruguay, Colombia doesn’t win both of their games (they have to play Brazil and Paraguay) and Venezuela wins vs Peru and at least ties with Ecuador.
It sounds like a lot, but none of those results are crazy at all lol.
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Cheee tranqui es Brasil y Uruguay. Con cuidado
Venezuela is massive.
Still 34 points needed to guarantee at least 6th and direct qualification after matchday 4. 32 points will guarantee 7th and playoff spot
Realistically 25 points should be enough for 7th place.
Yes most likely. My calculations are more worst case scenario with the top 8 teams beating the bottom 2 teams and then sharing wins between each other. Mathematically 8th can get as much as 31 but 32 guarantees without tiebreakers. But I’m sure there’ll be lots of draws and maybe a few upsets which will bring my numbers down
C’mon Bolivia
Argentina are winning back to back Copas, I’m convinced
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Parió la burra! Por fin!
After all this years FINALLY a coach that put the players that play in Europe and 2 forwards if it’s necesary.
Hand I have faith
weird feeling being so relaxed after only 4 games into the Qualifiers, but being 1st by 5 points plus the extended WC does that
So, there’s now 90 qualifying games a cycle, to fully eliminate 3 teams?
Seems a little excessive
They should’ve changed the format of this. 7/10 qualifying is a bit silly. Perhaps two groups, north and south or something like that.
We should just join the qualifier with the rest of the Americas imo. But they probably don’t want that…
But the travel distances would be insane