Africa Cup of Nations 2019

[tsubaki]

if they score from this

 

[sdk]

Better luck next time, Gana.

 

[TheBigIguana]

Honestly can't be too mad about Algeria winning even though I wanted to see Gana get the trophy because Mahrez produced what might be the only moment of quality in the entire tournament. Senegal totally lost the plot after going behind. No patience, no composure and ultimately no real hope of ever scoring.

 

[emir]

It's sad how much African football has fallen. At this point, African football is far behind Asian football.

 

[TheBigIguana]

It's sad how much African football has fallen. At this point, African football is far behind Asian football.

They're both pretty poor compared to Europe. South America has even fallen off. Argentina are a shell of themselves and Chile are at the end of the era. Its basically Brazil Uruguay and Colombia that are good at the moment. But that makes sense when all the money is in Europe.

 

[emir]

They're both pretty poor compared to Europe. South America has even fallen off. Argentina are a shell of themselves and Chile are at the end of the era. Its basically Brazil Uruguay and Colombia that are good at the moment. But that makes sense when all the money is in Europe.

South America has fallen off as Brazilian football has declined. South America is economically not good enough to compete with Europe anymore. Although I see a change in the direction of football in the future. I can see Japanese/Korean football one day becoming a potential rival to European football, although it would still be a relative weak rival, but with the money in East Asian football, the football culture and the talent, they can definitely rise to a good standard.

 

[verreauxi]

I would like to offer a hearty congrats to my adopted country of Madagascar, a struggling nation with amazing people. Was just talking to two of my Malagasy friends about their surprise run in this tournament: for them to beat the Super Eagles 2-0 was pretty amazing as Madagascar is ranked 108th in the FIFA rankings and don't have a league of their own (and barely any pitches at all). So good on them. Upon return to the airport in the capital city, it took their team 5 hours to reach the city center (about 30 miles away) due to all the fans lining the streets. And having traversed those streets many times, we are talking narrow narrow roads.

 

[TheBigIguana]

South America has fallen off as Brazilian football has declined. South America is economically not good enough to compete with Europe anymore. Although I see a change in the direction of football in the future. I can see Japanese/Korean football one day becoming a potential rival to European football, although it would still be a relative weak rival, but with the money in East Asian football, the football culture and the talent, they can definitely rise to a good standard.

Europe should dominate for the foreseeable future. When the other nations have to draw players from their home leagues they are at a far inferior level. England gets made fun of for having to call up someone like James Ward-Prowse but he would be the best midfielder on a USA team calling up Bradley and Will Trapp.