Comments on: World Cup farce: FIFA adds seeds to UEFA playoffs to ease qualification for big powers http://assoc-football.com/2009/10/18/world-cup-farce-fifa-adds-seeds-to-uefa-playoffs-to-ease-qualification-for-big-powers/ an American soccer blog - covering the world's game from a new world perspective Mon, 19 Mar 2012 06:56:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Adam http://assoc-football.com/2009/10/18/world-cup-farce-fifa-adds-seeds-to-uefa-playoffs-to-ease-qualification-for-big-powers/#comment-404 Mon, 19 Oct 2009 02:37:23 +0000 http://assoc-football.com/?p=584#comment-404 While I totally agree that changing things mid qualifying is shady, I disagree with a lot of the other points brought up.

I think the way teams were initially seeded is totally fair, I’d hate to see a random draw make a group consisting of 3-4 traditional powers because we’d end up seeing someone who should go miss out.

While it is nice to see a surprise team make the World Cup, it’s just a nice story and the story usually ends when they get 1 point in the group stage and get to go home. Personally I’d rather see the absolute best teams make the World Cup. It makes for more exciting matches and just a better overall tournament. I don’t think many people would care about the thing if it was full of tiny countries.

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