I'm sorry, but if you can't beat one of two very middle of the road soccer nations, you can't cry about not being able to go the World Cup.
My argument wasn't "crying about them being there" was to debate his point that these nations are undeserving of having spots awarded to their confederation when clearly they aren't as far apart in skill as you insinuate.
Because Uruguay finished 5th in a qualifying tournament that features 8 teams in the World Top 60. Costa Rica finished 4th in a qualifying tournament that features 4 teams in the Top 60.
So again, to my point before, CONCACAF nations are punished because of region they are in, not because they aren't skilled enough to play with these nations.
Tough shit, the World Cup isn't about giving every team a chance. It's about purely pitting the best against the best to decide the best team in the world... that and filling FIFA Executives secret Swiss bank accounts, but thats a different topic.
If the World Cup wasn't about giving 32 teams a chance, then it wouldn't be 32 teams big. That was just a dumb point all together.
Watering down = lowering the quality of the teams in the group stage. Lower quality of teams = shit Soccer.
Shit soccer that is "so exciting at the time" to those that are now trashing the idea? Interesting how that works out.
I suppose England shouldn't be their either for losing 4-1 to the Germans and sucking total dick throughout the whole tourney, clearly they aren't good enough either eh? Mexico fucked up France, how about France fucks off too? The most lopsided matches at this tournament had more to do with "strong" nations than any other. Well and North Korea, but nobody wanted Kim Wong Dong to blow up the world so we had to let them show up to the party.
What's it to you if these nations are at the event? The right nations were in the final, so what's the problem? Not really much of a "World Cup" if a bunch of snooty cunts from the top 10 won't play with anyone else because their ego's are too big to assume that the rest of the world isn't getting good enough to just be on the same pitch.
Want to know what made those runs so exciting? the fact that in the tournament they were knocking out the likes of Spain, France, Argentina and all the other elite teams in the process. Not that they beat Costa Rica and Burkina Faso on route to the final.
This is supposed to be a counter argument to my point? These exciting runs cannot happen if they aren't even allowed to enter the "watered down" tournament, who they beat is isn't really relevant to the point I made. It's nothing more than an annoying over exaggeration to suggest that a team would go on a run vs shit nations, and clearly makes no sense as it would never happen.
We're talking about adding a full spot rather than the half spot they have, not inviting the entire fucking world.
If you have an argument, make it, don't just give random nonsensical garbage and call it a successful rebuttle.
Which is as it should be, if the 5th best CONMEBOL can't beat the 4th best team from a weaker region, they don't deserve to have all 5 spots.
The spot doesn't have to come from CONMEBOL, I mean they could take the .5 from that garbage Oceania setup and put New Zealand in with the rest of Asia. They have a red carpeted path to the WC with that setup. AFC is ranked below CONCACAF, yet they get 4.5 spots. Doesn't make much sense now does it?
