The Copa America shows the difference in strength between the north and the south! The difference in difficulty between the World Cup and the Euro-America Cup!

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2024-07-08 22:32Published in Zhejiang

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01 Recently, the European Championship and the Copa America are in full swing, and French star Mbappe believes that the European Cup is more difficult than the World Cup, which has sparked discussions.

The 02 World Cup qualifiers are divided into continents, and a total of 13 European teams have reached the finals of the 2022 World Cup, and the champions in the history of the World Cup are mainly from Europe and South America.

03 Due to the difference in strength between continents, the difficulty of the early stage of the World Cup finals may be relatively low, but the difficulty of the world champion in the late knockout stage is higher.

04However, football is round, the strength of each team will change over time, and the past results cannot be completely compared with the present.

05 In any case, which is more difficult, the World Cup or the two major European and American cups, is an eternal topic of debate as football continues to be popular around the world.

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Recently, the European Cup and the Copa America are in full swing, in addition to the situation on the field, French star Mbappe mentioned in an interview that the European Cup is more difficult than the World Cup, and derived "Which is more difficult, the European Cup or the World Cup?" Generally speaking, everyone's first instinct is usually that the World Cup is bigger than the European Championship, but looking at the past years, the chances of a European team that performed well in the World Cup are unexpectedly high in the European Championship two years later. On the contrary, many of the teams that performed well in the European Championship did not do well in the World Cup two years later, so it is really difficult to calculate, but there is one obvious standard that deserves to be regarded as a standard is the World Cup qualifiers!

Because the qualifiers for the World Cup are divided into continents, it is actually the teams that stand out from each continent to break into the finals, so a total of thirteen European teams will enter the finals in the 2022 World Cup, and they will only qualify if they become the top 13 in Europe that year. In the history of the World Cup, the teams that have won the championship are all from countries in Europe and South America, so in addition to Europe, which is recognized as the second largest competition, South America can certainly not be ignored, there is a saying that it will be more difficult to advance from the qualifiers of these two continents to the finals than to advance to the knockout round after advancing to the World Cup finals, because in the World Cup finals, you will meet teams from North and Central America, Asia and Africa, these teams that have qualified in the two continents, It may feel easier against them than against teams from the same continent who have already been eliminated in the qualifiers.

At this time, it may be said that the traditional powerhouse Germany, losing to Asian teams in the group stage of two consecutive World Cups, or the African team Morocco in the last competition, advanced to the semi-finals, but it must be said that these are individual cases, and most of the teams that have better results in the end are from both continents. In the next 2026 World Cup, the number of qualifiers in the South American zone will be expanded to 48 teams because they want to expand the number of participants, and the qualifiers in the South American zone will be expanded to 6.5 teams, which means that the top six teams will be determined, and one team will have the opportunity to play the cross-continent play-offs.

Some people think that because there are only 10 teams in South America, it will be a bit too much for more than half of the South American teams to qualify. However, considering that in addition to the same high level as the European zone, their World Cup qualifiers are a bit extreme in terms of climate and terrain (especially in high-altitude countries such as Bolivia, Ecuador and Chile), and the longest schedule, which is usually considered the most difficult in the state qualifiers, and there is also a point that there are only ten countries, and they often meet with each other to know each other very well, which actually increases the difficulty of wanting to dominate in the matchup between the teams!

And now I see that this time the Copa America invited the strong teams of North and South America to play the Copa America together, and the results proved that South America is still much stronger than the North and Central Latin America. Mexico and the United States, who took turns to dominate the America's Gold Cup held in North and South America, both went out in the group stage, and the Mexican team may be because it is a little green and yellow now, but the United States is now missing the 2018 World Cup. That's right! Panama and Canada advanced to the quarterfinals, but Panama met Bolivia, which was basically inferior in South America, and the United States, which upset the same continent, and Uruguay, a real South American opponent in the same group, was defeated 1-3.

The Canadian team is now a golden era in team history, with a 1-0 win over Peru and a 0-0 draw with Chile in the last two games of the Copa America's group stage, both of which have been considered competitive in South American history. However, more than half of the main lineup of the Peruvian team in these two teams are over 30 years old or about ageing, and the Chilean team is the overall veteran with newcomers is also young, facing two South American teams that are in a weakening period, although the Canadian team that is young and in the golden period as a whole Although the key to promotion is not conceding a goal, it should be noted that in these two games, the Peruvian team and the Chilean team have players with red cards, resulting in one less player, and the Canadian team is still quite thrilling to pass, and the content of only one goal in three games is not good.

And if you look at it from the group stage now, there is a big dark horse Venezuelan team in South America, and the team history has never been able to break out of the South American World Cup qualifiers, and on the whole, they are basically the bottom of South American football, and they have completed three consecutive wins in this group stage, including 1-0 defeat of Mexico, the Central and North American hegemon that has won the most Americas Gold Cup, and 3-0 victory over Jamaica, the semifinals of last year's Americas Gold Cup.

From this reasoning, it can be said that teams that may be able to qualify for the World Cup finals on other continents have a good chance of being eliminated in the qualifiers if they are placed in the two main theaters of Europe or South America. One more point to mention here is that now fans should be highly concerned about the European Cup and the Copa America, but few people should know that there is actually the Oceania Cup during the half month from 6/15 to 6/30, which is not difficult to understand, after all, it is really the weakest continent. The Australian team, a strong team in Oceania, applied to participate in the Asian Cup after 2004 in order to seek improvement, and the only remaining big country, the New Zealand team, dominated Oceania and won the championship in this tournament There is no suspense, but the New Zealand team has only played in the finals twice in the World Cup, and both times they were out of the group stage.

So now back to the beginning, I personally think that because of the difference in strength between the continents, the difficulty of the early stage of the World Cup finals may be relatively low compared to the European Cup or the Copa America, but in the late stage of the knockout round, after all, there will be a world champion, which is theoretically more difficult than the European Cup and the Copa America. However, football is round, and the strength of any team will basically change over time, even if the lineup will grow and thrive or aging and decline, so any team will have an error in comparing the past results with the present, so which is more difficult in the World Cup or the two major cups in Europe and the United States? These are all topics that will never end the debate under the continuous popularity of football all over the world!

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