FIFA Confederations Cup 2009 (33 Viewers)
- Thread starter Elvin
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Landscape of power will not change, it is very hard to rival the talent produced in Europe and South America. Even for countries like the Japanese, Koreans and Australians who seem to have the structure to develop over the years and reach a point where they can mount a real challenge.
But a good thing to consider is that its not only about these nations and whether they could establish the youth systems, encourage them, create a climate that is supportive of football etc. That is required to to be norm and maybe you would get some decent players and lucky if a couple were really talented.
Another point is that they cannot do this on their own, their whole content has to lift. For example a team like Switzerland plays against heavyweights like Germany, Italy etc and the same for Chile with Brazil and Argentina. Nations like Japan, Korea and Australia's prime comes when they play eachother or maybe when the play Iran, the Saudi's or China which is no easy feat but look how different we classify a big game here to what is classified in Europe or South America.
You get to a point where not much can be done on a national stage and regionally something has to be done to lift the quality. Australia is not even close to that point but they have one game to go and they haven't conceded a single goal! This group should represent the best of the best in Asia and not one team could score against the socceroos which haven't playing all that well too.
But a good thing to consider is that its not only about these nations and whether they could establish the youth systems, encourage them, create a climate that is supportive of football etc. That is required to to be norm and maybe you would get some decent players and lucky if a couple were really talented.
Another point is that they cannot do this on their own, their whole content has to lift. For example a team like Switzerland plays against heavyweights like Germany, Italy etc and the same for Chile with Brazil and Argentina. Nations like Japan, Korea and Australia's prime comes when they play eachother or maybe when the play Iran, the Saudi's or China which is no easy feat but look how different we classify a big game here to what is classified in Europe or South America.
You get to a point where not much can be done on a national stage and regionally something has to be done to lift the quality. Australia is not even close to that point but they have one game to go and they haven't conceded a single goal! This group should represent the best of the best in Asia and not one team could score against the socceroos which haven't playing all that well too.
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