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I always knew that your education will come handy one day in this forum :P

That would be correct for the last 3-4 world cups. In the previous ones big majority of the SA players actually played in SA. For example, Pele's generation was almost entirely based in South America. At the 1962 WC in Chile all 22 Brazilian players played in Brazil's league. In 1970 in Mexico...

Not only that, but the Europeans never won a WC out of Europe, while the South Americans won twice outside the Americas (1958 in Sweden, 2002 in Japan-Korea). It will be interesting to see what will happen in South Africa. Europeans never won a WC in different time zones, when the WC was played...

Yeah, pretty equal indeed. Just that Europe will have a better bench with Ibrahimovic, Gerrard, Iniesta, Casillas, Lampard, Terry etc.