An African team to win the World Cup ?

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PalazioVecchio

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It took 164 years for a team, associated with the Crystal Palace building in SE19, to win anything important.
All good things come to those who wait. The Champions league is awash with World class african players ( by birth or by ancestry). So what are we waiting for ?

During the 1980's Cameroon were very good. They gave a nasty shock to many a complacent 'big team'.

You read it here first. SENEGAL & ismaila Sarr to win the WC, having beaten Spain in the final.

Sarr is good
EAGLEs good
Senegalese & good.
 
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Africa has produced some great players but it is a continent not a country. Unfortunately these great players tend to be spread thinly across multiple countries.

It will happen one day but not at this world cup.
 
People been saying this for over 30 years.

But they haven't been significantly closer since that famous Cameroon team of 1986.
I can't see it happening at this world cup. I could see Morocco or Senegal making the QFs.

If any African country does it, it will probably be Nigeria, but they didn't even qualify for this one.
 
It would be just Zahas luck that the ivory Coast go onto win it.

As soon as he leaves us we bag 3 trophies and as soon as he doesn't get called up to the ivory Coast they go on and win it 😅
 
Zinidene Zidane., Eze, Olise, Mbappe...etc ....all the lads are too quick to don the shirt of the adopted nation.

Seems a bit unfair to the smaller footballing countries and giving an unfair help to the WC giants. Whereas these giant nations already have a shipping-container of World class talent to choose from. They can afford to leave a ton of amazing players off the books & watching the WC on the telly. Mitchell ? Wharton ? Anybody

You then get african teams with 2 or 3 superstars and the rest of the squad padded out from the likes of Tranmere Rovers.
 
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Was the Afcon a farce or not? Why perhaps would there be issues with African teams?
There is no attempt to even hide the corruption there. The Presidents of the Associations are proud of it.
And as we know: UEFA are squeaky clean.
 
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Was the Afcon a farce or not? Why perhaps would there be issues with African teams?
There is no attempt to even hide the corruption there. The Presidents of the Associations are proud of it.
And as we know: UEFA are squeaky clean.
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Were there issues with the teams?
Rightful winners Senegal behaved impeccably in my view.

It seems to be a problem with refs and officials.

As an aside I wonder if Riad and Sarr are on speaking terms in our dressing room 🤣
 
PalazioVecchio said:
Zinidene Zidane., Eze, Olise, Mbappe...etc ....all the lads are too quick to don the shirt of the adopted nation.

Seems a bit unfair to the smaller footballing countries and giving an unfair help to the WC giants. Whereas these giant nations already have a shipping-container of World class talent to choose from. They can afford to leave a ton of amazing players off the books & watching the WC on the telly. Mitchell ? Wharton ? Anybody

You then get african teams with 2 or 3 superstars and the rest of the squad padded out from the likes of Tranmere Rovers.
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Banning payment for internationals would help.
France, etc simply outbid Mali, etc
 
McAhuna said:
Were there issues with the teams?
Rightful winners Senegal behaved impeccably in my view.

It seems to be a problem with refs and officials.

As an aside I wonder if Riad and Sarr are on speaking terms in our dressing room 🤣
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The issues are with the associations and governing bodies. Sometimes it filters through to officials and teams.
 
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Zinidene Zidane., Eze, Olise, Mbappe...etc ....all the lads are too quick to don the shirt of the adopted nation.

Seems a bit unfair to the smaller footballing countries and giving an unfair help to the WC giants. Whereas these giant nations already have a shipping-container of World class talent to choose from. They can afford to leave a ton of amazing players off the books & watching the WC on the telly. Mitchell ? Wharton ? Anybody

You then get african teams with 2 or 3 superstars and the rest of the squad padded out from the likes of Tranmere Rovers.
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You might have a point depending on who you mean by "etc" - but

Zidane was born in Marseille. He is French.
Mbappe was born in Paris. He is French.
Olise and Eze were born in Hammersmith and Greenwich respectively. They are Londoners.

So Olise is the only of these four who donned a shirt outside his birthplace. None were born in Africa.

I guess it depends on your definition of nationality and the world has become quite small in the last fifty years or so in this regard.
 
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