Bloated.
For me it should be the best 32 or 48 teams now in the world. If that’s means it has more teams from Europe, Africa and South America and none from Oceania and what not so be it.
There should be one qualification with all the teams in and have it split out into world rankings. Where say the top 32, next 32 and so on. Then each team plays one or two games against random opponents in each section. Either home or away but not both.
Something along those lines, I’ve not thought too much about the actual logistics. Similar to the Champions league. I know that they are changing to this but just for Europe and still limiting Europe to 16 places I think.
I get in the past it was all to do with travel and some countries may still be poor but FIFA should step in and subside travel etc for such countries - they can afford it.
This way you would get games such as Brazil v wales or England v Nigeria etc.
Would be much better in my opinion.
The way it is set up now means some absolute tripe makes it to the finals or you get the same teams like South Korea and Japan every year as they don’t have much of a challenge or New Zealand and Australia. Same goes for USA that make it every year. No way these are better than a lot of European and many African teams that don’t get in.
Even South America pretty much 6 out of a group of 10 qualify and 7th gets a shot via a play off. So 70% of SA teams have a chance of qualification compared to about 30% maximum of European teams.
I think it would be much more enjoyable playing games from countries all over the world to qualify and it would eradicate this so many places for so many areas nonsense. It would simply be the best teams.
I mean Curaco, Haiti, Jordan, Iraq, Panama and New Zealand…
