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Have to make room for EUROPEAN CUP (Toughest Tourney on the Globe)
And confederation championships (Euro, Copa America, Gold Cup, etc...) be held on alternate years...
4 years is too damn long of a wait...
Have to make room for EUROPEAN CUP (Toughest Tourney on the Globe)
Like I said... World Cups held on even years...
Confederation Championships held on odd years...
Restructure the Olympics to strictly U-23...
That would mean
World Cup on even years
European Cup on odd years
Champions League every year
Impossible for players health
aren't you from New Jersey? why would anyone want to willingly be European?
It would lose some of its appeal and cramp the already congested and streched calendar even more. I don't think my heart can take matches like today's every 2 years, some time is needed to heal
They have like Kings FA Euro Trash Division Serie Liga Tournaments dotting the soccer landscape. Get rid of the majority of these tournaments then you might have an argument. As currently constructed? Naw. Too much goin' on.
You know what would be cool? A World league. Pick the best 18 or 20 teams and have him play all vs all, home and away over the course of 2 or 3 years. Instead of friendlies you play World league matches.
Sometimes I feel every 4 years is too long, but then that's somewhat what makes it special and the huge event it really is. Plus theres so many other BS tournaments now.
Aren't National Team squads comprised of 23 men? Use more players... The Pop method...
no way
the beauty of the world cup is its rarity tbh
Players have 3 WC windows in their carreer 2 max in their prime.... it's somehow cruel but that's the exiting part
I see your point, but opposition to change is not an argument in itself against the concept... Why not hold the NBA Finals every 4 years...? How about the Champions League Final...? or the Super Bowl...? The beauty of those championships is the fact that it should be [all other factors removed] the best of the best "fighting it out" to prove who is the best... That's the inherent nature of compe ive sports... We [the fans / the spectators] feast on the journey itself... We need to value the quality of the product on the pitch, moreso than the arbitrary frequency factor that was chosen more than 80 years ago...
IMO the rarity argument is one based on holding firm to traditions... We shouldn't value the tournament based on rarity alone, and in doing so devalue the beauty of the sport itself... The two year suggestion, is one that emphasizes the fact that we should hold the best tournment in highest esteem and phase out lesser, meaningless, tournaments...
It's a subjective exercise in terms of what we value...
You seem to value rarity (in this instance)... whereas I stress the valuing of quality (for the sake of pure entertainment - which is what I feast on as a fan of the 'beautiful game' known as fútbol)...
Problem with your comparison is World Cup is for country so the players aren't paid much. Remember how much ing the NBA players made about participating in Olympic Basketball? This would start occuring in the World Cup.
It simply needs to uphold it's Golden Standard "Nothing compares to winning the WC". Once you water down that accomplishment, players will start questioning participation.
Super Bowl & NBA Finals must occur yearly because they are Domestic Sports
Champions League?
I'd say 3 years. 2 years would be too often. clubs would not allow it.
no.. the 3 years worth of hype is part of what makes it so good
OP, I keep saying the same as well or atleast every 3 years. Every 4 ing years is like a new class of doctors graduating tbh
4 years is a long ass wait, but 2 might make it feel less special. plus I somewhat enjoy the ladies WC in the interim, least something we dominate at.
hype only starts the year and half before the Cup tbh.
There are quality national teams event every two years. Euro is a fantastic compe ion, very exciting and extremely valued. So we got something to look for every two years.
i do hope they will never ever do s stupid thing like a World Cup every two years. We have enough quality football all year with champion league. Olympics is also every 4 years and it's enough. Just my two cents anyway
IMO they should promote the youth WC (under 20 imo)
that would be the tbh. So there should be a youth WC and a vet WC every 2 years. case solved.
There's already a load of football being played and nobody is gonna cancel their money income. In a quick glance I can tell you:
International:
World Cup
World Cup Qualifiers
Euro/Copa America/African Cup/Asian Cup/CONCACAF Gold Cup
Qualifiers for those tournaments
Confederations Cup
International Friendlies
Olympics -which have qualifiers in some regions-
U-20/U-21 Continental Compe ions
U-20 World Cup
U-17 Continental Compe ions
U-17 World Cup
U-15 Continental Compe ions
Club:
Club World Championship
Champions League/Libertadores/Asian CL/CONCACAF CL
Europa League/Sudamericana
International Super Cup
Leagues
National Cups
League Cups
National Super Cups
Reserves/B Leagues
And that's just from the first I could remember, you can add more if you start looking into it.
Players in successful clubs who also play for nations that usually go deep in tournaments could play up to 80-90 matches per season. That's just insane, even with the advances in conditioning, sports medicine and training techniques. They're at the physical limit right now, and you can tell by the number of injuries before and during this World Cup. There isn't any kind of rotation policy where you could challenge for les if you add the World Cup every 2 years, because it would also need qualifiers every 2 years. It would become a very random tournament, anyone could qualify or win because everyone would be knackered and unable to play to their limits.
Spain was the most obvious case. The success of Barcelona, Real Madrid and the Spanish National Team in the past 6 years has left the players exhausted, they hardly got a 2 month vacation in that period, usually it was somewhere 3 and 5 weeks.
There's already enough.. And aren't their going to be like 2 copa america's now? The regular conmebol one and then the one with concacaf + conmebol teams which is next year i think?
them american teams better enjoy this world cup cause next time in Russia, I'd be surprised to see 1 or 2 Be@ner teams in the final 8
Not for nations in difficult Qualifying confederations. If USA wasn't guaranteed a spot in the World Cup it would be different
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