is it fair that latinamerica only gets 4 spots to the owrld cup?
544348
no because only the best like Argentina or Brazil can go
1077868
ok it takes a month to finish the world cup. it starts out with 32 teams.  they are all seperated into groups. there are 8 groups. in those groups there are 4 teams. so all those teams play each other and the top two teams go on to the next round. in that round there is only 16 teams. then all those people play each other and if you loose once your out of the tournament. then you go to the next  round. which is only eight teams.  then they play each other. then the top four teams go to the next round and they all play each other. which leads us to the last round where to two best teams play each other. that's how the tournament  works. i hope that wasn't too confusing lol.
389025
You have to qualify.  Many more countries attempt to participate, but are eliminated before the Cup starts.  Only 32 countries can qualify for the Cup proper.\n\nOther countries don't even try, usually because they have little tradition of the sport, have no chance, or have no money to allocate for the expense of a national team.
1176084
Yes, although the other members in their group are good, if they pull it together, they can easily qualify. Spain is an awesome team with a huge pedigree and I believe they may have just been intimidated. Remember that the other two teams in their group tied their first match so if they beat those two teams or tie even one of them (and taking into acount that Spain may win the category), they could come in second. It'll be tough but anything worth winning takes effort.
444981
It is to allow regional championships such as the European championships to happen also every four years (two years after the world cup) and also to faciliate the qualifying rounds. \n\nWith the amount of national soccer teams now in existence it would be impossible for all of them to compete in one final tournament so more than half are eliminated in a series of regional qualifying rounds over the preceding two years.\n\nThe same is true of the regional championships.\n\nFor example for England to qualify for the World Cup we had to play home and away games against Poland, Austria, Wales, and Northern Ireland. That is 8 games which have to be fitted in with the domestic seasons, and also straight on the back of a European championship two years ago, which we also had to qualify for in the same way.\n\nWe won our group by the way, which meant automatic qualification and seeding.\n\nAs soon as we finish this world cup in June (and winning it) we commence our European championship qualifyers for 2008....and so on
1142594
I don't see why not :) I think Mexico is rising back up towards the top, and while this Cup may not be theirs.. in due time
614557
Yes, they are. They are 52nd right now, as per FIFA latest rankings. But if you are talking about this year Wolrd Cup, they did not qualify for the final tournament.
310880
Uruguay in 1930 and there was no qualifiying stage.Any country that wanted to participate they did. 13 countries participated (in cluding Uruguay) from 3 continents including Europe unlike what someone answered earlier.\nfrom North America: USA Mexico\nfrom South America: Uruguay Chile Brazil Peru Paraguay Argantina Bolivia\nfrom Europe: Belgium Yougoslavia France Romania\n\nthat year the cup ranking was:\n1-Uruguay (Champions)(hosts)\n2-Argantina (runner-ups)\n3-USA\n4-Yugoslavia\n5-Chile\n6-Brazil\n7-France\n8-Romania\n9-Paraguay\n10-Peru\n11-Belgium\n12-Bolivia\n13-Mexico
1005003
this is only the first round.  they cannot go beyond the first round until all  teams have finished, then they will bring up a brand new schedule.  Its why the World Cup lasts a month.
1076876
Would push out too many other competitions if it were more frequent.  Besides, you'd really have to compress the qualifying rounds if it were 2 years apart (as qualifying in many parts of the world is spread out over 2 years).
1077709
As soon a W.C is over the organizing committee for the next World Cup meets with FIFA officials and they determine how many countries should participate. In this year's world cup this was decided in 2002 and they decided like this \nEurope (UEFA): 13 + Host\nAsia (AFC)4.5\nAfrica(CAF) 5 \nSouth America (CONMEBOL): 4.5\nNorth Central America & Caribbean (CONCACAF): 3.5\nOceania (OFC)  .5\nDecimals means they have to play a disqualifying match against a team of other confederation, this time was played like this:\nAFC vs CONCACAF ( Bahrein vs Trinidad & Tobago) w: T&T\nOFC vs CONMEBOL ( Australia vs Uruguay) w: Australia
1183158
Europe had 51 countries, and 13 qualified - that's around 25% of teams qualified. Asia had 32 teams, and 4 qualified - which is 13%. Africa had 5 qualifiers from 30 countries, 18%. South America had 4 qualified from 10 countries - 40%. North and Central America had 4 teams from 12 - 33% and Oceania had one team from 12 - 9%.\n\nSo South America has more teams in the World Cup as a ratio of teams entering, followed by the rest of America, then Europe. And South America would have had half of their countries qualifying if Uruguay had beaten Australia in the play-off. \n\nI think that because the teams from Europe and South America are considered to be the best teams, it is only fair that they should have more countries repesenting them. But I can't understand why North/Central America have so many considering they never do well in the World Cup.
386691
Actually, Mexico has a decent side.  Traditionally, they play very well at home and of course they will not have that advantage ...\nReally, they probably only finished behind the US in the CONCACAF because they sloppily threw together their qualifying squads, knowing that they are pretty much a lock (for qualification).\nPortugal is really the only real powerhouse in their group.  I think beating Iran and Angola is certainly possible, so they should advance past the first round, despite what that dude wrote about a quick trip home ...\n\nUM ... YOU "DOT" IT?
111463
The best way to go about it is having 32 people each chip in an amount of money and each choose a team, since everybody wants Brazil you might want to make it random.  But if you want to do it with little squares...seems impossible
391258
To repeat an earlier answer 31 plus Germany qualified but almost every country in the world participated, more than the Olympics.  Brazil was upset because as winners of the last cup they did not get automatic qualification but because of numbers they had to qualify.\nQualifying has been going on for two years now.
732529
a total of 207 FIFA affiliated members are eligible to compete in the World Cup. before the tournament proper begins, there will be a series of qualifying matches around the world to decide the 32 teams compete in the finals. one berth will always allocated to the host nation so 31 other places are up for grabs.
1137157
There are actually 32 teams in the World Cup. Teams qualified by playing within their regions for the past three years. Europe, Asia, Africa, South America, North America, Oceania are the regions represented. At the beginning of the qualifying rounds, there were around 200 teams trying to get into the World Cup. \n\nThe number of teams from each region allowed into the World Cup varies by region. Regions with more skilled teams get more spots (this year, Europe has 13 teams represented, which is the most, by far).\n\nThis article shows how many teams from each region are chosen, along with many other details: