The World Cup was started in an era when fewer people moved between countries. In particular few people played football overseas.
Now many footballers in effect choose their national allegiance, either to play for a big team like France or one they can get into like.....
The big international clubs like Real Madrid and Chelsea play to a higher standard than any national team.
Finally, football rightly deplores racism, but doesn't the concept of a competitive national team essentially have racist overtones, if not ones based on skin colour? And the behaviour of certain teams in the World Cup reflected that deplorably.
How about replacing the World Cup and the European Cup (with its equivalents on other continents) by a tournament for three weeks every two years for the World's top football clubs such as Barcelona, Arsenal etc.?
2006-07-13
01:32:04
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Philosophical Fred
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