Taken from fifa website:
Europe: 53 squads; 13 teams qualified
Africa: 53 squads; 5 teams qualified, including host country.
Coupe de merde instead of coupe du monde.
World cup of injustice.
i totally disagree with this. i think more european teams should play in the finals.
i'm all for it being a world thing, but giving continents a more equal share for reasons not based on footballing ability doesn't fly for me.
for me it should always be about having the best teams there on merit and quality, not being fair to africa or the carribean and letting the reggae boys play and get trounced whilst decent european teams sit at home twiddling their thumbs.
everyone knows the rules before they set out to qualify for sure, but finishing second/third in a group in europe is a massive achievement.
some of the african qualifications are a joke, no competition whatsoever to qualify. moreover, of the eventual qualifiers, there are only maybe 2 or 3 who miss out who were ever in with a shot in the first place.
in europe, there are 10-15 teams who could quite conceivably qualify but eventually miss out. so the balance is unfairly skewed IMO.