Oh no,The European football is struggling at the world cup, Oh, the horror!

[un_rank]

... (but it's a round of 32, damn, they could make it a round of 64 and then even more teams would be "successful" haha) and based on this, some fans started shouting about success.

It was still very impressive for the African teams that almost all made it out of the group stage. Each teams played under the same conditions, it does not favor any particularly to have best 3rd place teams goig through. The knockouts have shown that most of them xo not yet have the X factor to win knockout matches even when they have a good lead for most of the game.

- Jay -

[savetheFORUM]

It's obvious that Europe will always dominate the World Cup in terms of having many national teams going far, at least until the day other continents have leagues better than Europe's. In the past, Brazil and Argentina are currently the only teams that can at least take the World Cup title away from the Europeans.

Europe will not always dominate; even though they are dominating currently, I strongly believe that a time will come when Africa will win the World Cup because with every World Cup there is a clear observation of steady progress that African teams are making.

We are not there yet, but we will get there.

We all know nothing is forever, but still European soccer is having great depth, keeping their momentum at the top for a long time, and they can stay at the top for a long time in the future as well because they have done enough work for this.

Even in the last few years, a few European countries have been facing problems, but new ones are ready to take over. Africans are doing good development, still it's not easy for them to take over from Europe because mostly they don't have a good domestic setup, which keeps consistency and provides quality players, and Africans are having big problems.

Many players are shifting into Europe for a better future; this is also not going to set easily in the near future. Financial stability and deep roots are big advantages for them, as they have enough elite academies that are providing them impressive youths for the future.

[darewaller]

Six teams in the quarter finals, only Morocco and Argentina not European. And now Morocco is gone too, so first place at semi finals is European. 2 more is guaranteed, so we are going to see 3 out of 4 teams from Europe as always, and the other is Latin American as always.

I am pretty sure that European football is just fine, there is nothing that we can do this to change it, we should realize that it is not going to be something that is all that complicated for them, and it is clear that we are going to end up seeing a finalist European yet again too.

[blomen]

everything related to football is in europe. although teams from africa or south america also have many die-hard fans, neither financially nor in terms of the quality of play are teams from other continents even in the same league as a european team. this is also true for national teams.

since there are 48 teams in this world cup, some teams have been given new opportunities, and it’s normal for a few of them to pull off surprises, but it’s very difficult for these teams to reach the quarterfinals or semifinals. miraculous victories might happen in one or two matches. the rest is determined by the team’s quality.

[Alphakilo]

Some of these threads were started hurriedly. The authors saw a few European teams having poor results and thought that they wouldn't do well. Maybe seeing that nine out of ten African teams qualified from the group stage gave them the impression that they would perform better. This is exactly the problem of hasty judgement and its a learning for everyone including me.

Although some African teams put up a good performance, the outcome of the round of 32 showed that Africa still has a long way to go. I was expecting at least five African sides to make it to the next round, but they got just two

The current situation has shown that Europe still occupies the top position in global football. There will always be a clear difference between those who invest heavily in sports and those who put in peanuts.

African teams mostly dwell on physical strength and stamina training rather than tactical plays or creative plays and that's why when they  go into extra minutes, the players on the bench may not have the tactical discipline like those who have played from the onset mostly at that time when the pressure is high. There's always lack of systemic depth to sustain performance and this is where the European and south American teams out perform them just like we saw in this world cup.

In teams where there isn't proper infrastructure to train with or squad depth or historical pedigree, no matter how much the tournament is expanded to fit more teams, UEFA and CONMEBOL would always do better than the CAF  abd CONCACAF teams altogether.

[r_victory]

With the exception of Argentina, the teams still standing in the World Cup so far are European. My country's team was a disappointment. If Argentina gets knocked out by Switzerland—which might be difficult, though not impossible—the title will once again go to a European team. To say they are struggling is a complete exaggeration...

[Odusko]

... (but it's a round of 32, damn, they could make it a round of 64 and then even more teams would be "successful" haha) and based on this, some fans started shouting about success.

It was still very impressive for the African teams that almost all made it out of the group stage. Each teams played under the same conditions, it does not favor any particularly to have best 3rd place teams goig through. The knockouts have shown that most of them xo not yet have the X factor to win knockout matches even when they have a good lead for most of the game.

- Jay -

My major question right now is, if we are to rate African team in this round of the world cup, are we rating ther performance a poor or just average because to me since non of the African team made out of the knock stage to the semi finals we shouldn't give them much remarks and for one reason is a disappointment tht none can scale through that least the semi finals.

[Die_empty]

African teams mostly dwell on physical strength and stamina training rather than tactical plays or creative plays and that's why when they  go into extra minutes, the players on the bench may not have the tactical discipline like those who have played from the onset mostly at that time when the pressure is high. There's always lack of systemic depth to sustain performance and this is where the European and south American teams out perform them just like we saw in this world cup.

In teams where there isn't proper infrastructure to train with or squad depth or historical pedigree, no matter how much the tournament is expanded to fit more teams, UEFA and CONMEBOL would always do better than the CAF  abd CONCACAF teams altogether.

Then who is to blame for this based on your observation? Is it the coach or players? Most of these African players play in Europe, where they are exposed to modern tactics and "systemic depth". So they are not strangers to the European style of play.

So many factors are limiting the growth of African football. And at the top of it is corruption and the inability to attract world-class coaches. The Senegalese side had some problems that I don't want to talk about that contributed to their untimely departure. I am not saying Africa doesn't have good coaches, but they need more. 

[Julien_Olynpic]

There's nothing surprising about Europe's dominance in world football. And there's nothing surprising about the fact that, until recently, African teams couldn't compete. I could write platitudes about football being an economically resource-intensive sport. A country needs to be economically developed to develop youth football, which is the foundation for adult sports. It's quite expensive to build a stadium, maintain it, pay coaches, support sports schools, and so on.

[Gozie51]

So basically what all the stats are saying... nothing changed overall, just the names making the stats!  

Well accepted and taken but the fact is still standing for itself that African teams do well from the start of every game. African teams are no longer push away easily. I can't remember if an African teams lost by 4 or 5 goals at this tournament, none. In fact, most loses were as a result of late minutes loss of concentration. African teams will keep getting better at the world stage.

If the economy and financial propriety of Africa continent can improve like her football then other continent will not stand up to them at the world stage. For example, African football league is no where near what is happening in Europe yet at a time of team to team play, Africa teams give any team a run for their money.

Unfortunately that no African team is remaining at the tournament but I still enjoyed the performance of their games.