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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
watched the last 20' plus highlights of the US-El Salvador match the other day and it was a bit fo a shit game but USA won 5-1, as it should always do against a team like that. some nice goals, but again, i want to see them perform against a better continental team-- not the superstars-- just sides like uruguay, colombia, chile, ecuador, etc. the rivalry with mexico is small potatoes.
makes me think we should get rid of the concacaf/conmebol bullshit and do a panamerican tournament in between world cups. let them all fight it out just like UEFA. the gringo fish needs a bigger pond.
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I'd go even further, I think an out and out merger would benefit both regions. As you say, CONCACAF is just too uncompetitive, with Mexico and the USA pretty much guaranteed to qualify, even in second gear. It'd also stop the traditional farce of CONCACAF's third placed side automatically qualifying for the WC and getting trounced in every game. The media may like Trinidad, or Jamaica but do they really deserve to be in a WC when far better countries from more competitive divisions are left behind? Meanwhile CONMEBOL has too few countries so the same teams keep playing each other over and over again.
They also need to reduce the teams that qualify from Asia. It's absurd that they get the just one less place than South America. (Uzbekistan more likely to qualify than Peru?)
It'll never happen so long as Blatter's in charge, though, seeing as he seems to think the WC is all about no-hoper sides like Jamaica participating rather than the best ones.