Well, here's where your theory don't hold water. In 1994 two out of the two concacaf teams advanced past the group stage. In fact, one of those teams even came out group winners beating out Italy, Republic of Ireland and Norway to top the group. The other team pulled off a major upset by defeating Columbia in what turned out to be a national tragedy for Columbian football. Now, wouldn't it stand to reason, (using your levitated argument, of course) that for the next Tournament, when they increased the field by 8 teams, that concacaf should have gotten at least 2 of them slots? How come they only got 1 when 1 is what they would have gotten anyway? How come "our" uncle jack wasn't able to use concacaf's success rate to bargain for more than just an obligatory slot in an expansion tournament? Please transpose your theory and explain that for me.
Because when they expand the World Cup they generally look to distribute the places according to the size of each confederation. For example, Africa and Europe are bigger confederations with more member nations than CONCACAF, so they were given more places than we were.
BTW, I really think that Africa has gotten lucky by hanging onto all their spots for so long. They have had five of them since the WC was expanded to 32 teams in 1998. And since then they have had only 1 team out of 5 advance from their group at each WC: in 1998 it was Nigeria, in 2002 it was Senegal and in 2006 it was Ghana.
A 20% advancement rate in three successive World Cups is quite poor. Yet I have never heard any talk of them losing even a half place. On the contrary, there will actually be 6 African teams at the World Cup next summer because of South Africa's automatic qualification as the host nation. Let's see what they can do to justify those numbers.
You are now forcing me to question your basic level of understanding...you really havn't read and/or understood what I asked of you. Mybe it's the tears in yer eyes. Maybe th vuvzelas have you a little disoriented..........no need to go on any further with you. I know you know the statistics of a sport (like most americans do) and nothing else. That is why you cannot understand why Africa are still "holding on" to 5 slots. Well, hyou can "hold on" to the
FOUR that Brazil SLOT past tim howard today. ...anyhoo, I see some men posted the EXACT thoughts that were going through my mind as I was on my way home from my weekend outing: ORDER HAS BEEN RESTORED!
As for john harkes and that other FOOL, delacamera: the man has practically commented on EVERY usa game since the 1980's and his knowledge, nuance and appreciation for this beautiful game has not grown, not one INCH. As a man previously posted, listening to them REALLY make yuh hate the usa even more than a man like me possibly can. I like how after the usa scored, they talkin' about how that will "force" Brazil to open up more and be vulnerable to counter-attacks. When the fack does Brazil ever park a bus in front of their fackin' goal?!?! Brazil was ALWAYS going to play an open fackin' game! If anything, Brazil takes big leads in games and then become bored and complacent, but they are hardly if ever, a team to sit back and defend, no matter what their lead is. Dem two only fass wit dey shit-talkin' self! I read somebody say that they then brought up how Brazil was wasting time......and what the FACK tim howard was doing every time the ball went out of play especially after they were up 2?! Boy, hul dem and all the usa waggonist cudder's munt eh! ORDER HAS BEEN RESTORED!
From what I see so far on the dvr, tim howard had a more than decent game. Too bad he couldn't pull out them heroics to help everton win a FA Cup.....but wait.....Chelsea was denied a goalazo that cleared the line in that game, too? Too bad for him then, too bad for him today. FIFA need to mandate goal-line technology and stop de BS. Anyhoo, for all the men that want to talk shit about Brazil, keep talkin' it. Run allyuh fackin' mouth. They not going to win
EVERY tournament they play in, at least their fans don't expect them to. The world does. Their fans only
want them to win every tournament they play in. It is impossible for Brazil to play game in, game out, with the style and flair that they used to. Too many teams take on too much of a defensive posture than to allow for a free-flowing game anymore, especially when they play against Brazil. Even so, look how Brazil was attackin and getting through them even with the desperate defending the usa does do. tim howard really did a great job today. Y'all still have that gold cup victory in '98 to talk about. However, ORDER HAS BEEN RESTORED.
