I can't really see it in my lifetime, I just don't think the infrastructure is there. Africa does produce a lot of talent, but the vast majority are extremely poor nations with a multitude of issues, from frequent wars, extreme poverty, illness, famine etc. All of these issues contribute to very little opportunity, with likely a mass of talent dying or just being missed, so the chances that any one African country produce sufficient talent to consistently beat the best the rest of the World can offer is very slim, IMHO.
It's worth noting as well that there are a lot of players, of African descent, that choose to take another nationality when they turn professional, particularly those that are good enough to start for the top nations, so many of those African nations can lose the type of player that could make a difference.
It would be great for Football as a whole if an African nation did win the WC, I just think the odds are stacked against them.
Agree that a African country doesn't have much chance of winning a WC
countries like Senegal, Tunisia, Morocco , Ivory Coast, South Africa and Ghana are no poorer than south american countries really. 2nd there are no wars there in those countries. Even the more war torn countries doesn't deal with the kinda shite that goes down in Europe every decade since WW1 .
3rd they have healthcare , and no famine or illness worse than many other counties globally . not the entire continent is like the adverts asking for a £1 a month, these are always rural villages away from major cities in poorer nations like Ethiopia, and it's no different for rural villages in south america or china but the whole of Africa then gets painted with that brush of kids with flies on the face and drinking dirty water.
And there's probably just as much opportunity as the comparable nations of south america hence why these teams are better than Columbia, or peru, costa rica, mexico, Paraguay, Chile etc etc
in reality there's western Europe and then there's Brazil and Argentina. do Ireland have a chance at the WC nope, or Russia, Serbia, Hungry, Greece, Finland, Sweden etc etc less than Ghana do imo
Africa has a decent chance of producing a great teams like Belgium, Columbia or Holland occasionally do in the next decade but as Jose would say its football Heritage and the truth is only Brazil, Argentina, England*, Italy, France, Spain*, Portugal, Germany have the recent heritage to go all the way
(*debatable)
The United States is the only one that has a slim chance since it has the population, the money, all the infrastructure you could desire but even then i think it's extremely unlikely.
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