Why Do African Teams Fail At The World Cup?
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- 1934 was the first time an African country featured at the FIFA World Cup after Egypt qualified for the tournament in Italy. The continent would, however, not have a representative at the competition until 1970. But since then, there has been a streak of 13 straight FIFA World Cup tournaments with, at least, one African country present. 2022 makes it 14.
But in all these tournaments where we’ve had African representation, the furthest a team from the continent has ever gone is the quarter finals.
Before you think that’s not so bad, compare it with the continent of Asia which has had representation in 15 World Cup tournaments and has managed to produce a country which finished in 4th place.
North America, a continent which obviously does not have as much talent as Africa, even if you add Central America and the Caribbeans, has produced a country which won bronze at a World Cup tournament.
And yeah, you could argue that Ghana were literally just one Suarez hand and then a penalty kick away from a 3rd or 4th place finish in 2010, but we honestly still don’t think that’s enough excuse for a continent blessed with that much talent. Africa should be regulars in the semis, at least.
I mean, the continent is home to the likes of Mo Salah, Sadio Mane, Frack Kessie, and Riyad Mahrez, and before them, it has been home to the likes of George Weah, Samuel Eto’o, Jay Jay Okocha, and Yaya Toure. But the farthest an African country has gone at the World Cup is the quarter finals? Why?
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Who's watching this after Moroccos' legendary run in Qatar?
Didn’t even make it 3rd place
Me
South Korea made to 4 th controversally.
and 2002 wc was in south korea and japan
Who's here after morroco went to the semis !
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Meee
Meeeeeeeeeeeee
I'm Here After Argentina Beat France In The FINALS!!!!!!!!
Me
That Ghanaian side in 2010 was the one African team in recent memory that had the potential to go far.....
Morocco
Now it’s Morocco 😢
@@juda210 why are u sad tho
He’s probably from Ghana
@@bakar665 Im sad cuz they weren’t able to make it to the finals
Because all their best players play for France and England. Imagine Mbappe playing for cameroon
He woulda never become a World Cup winner. The problem is there’s so many countries in Africa if they halved the countries to put more talent together they would’ve had so many god squads imagine players like yaya drogba okakcha weah mane and salah playing together. Would have 1 or 2 wc easy
He was born and raised in France , and was closer to playing for Algeria, that the biggest problem apart from occasionally one or two great players mane,Salah,weah there isn't alot of great African players as there no infrastructure. Look at Tunisa and morroco the majority of the teams are Europe born
They don't. Some of the guys aren't even born there.
Mbappe can also play for Algeria
If Mbappe played for Cameroon, he'd become a nobody. Football is a team sport. Mbappe can only succeed if other players pass him good balls and work together with him. Put Mbappe in a weak side, and he won't be able to do anything no matter his natural talents.
Eto'o is making a change right now as presidential of the Cameroon football federation
Didn’t know their politics was that much of a reason as to why they can’t perform in the World Cup
Could you imagine being a player and expecting to go and play even tho you’re still owed months of your salary and have yet to receive your bonus?
He will do nothing
@@petesmart1983 he did give courage Morocco finished 4th
He's a bit corrupt against opposition, but he cares about his nation's team.
Love your videos! But for me they would be even better if you didn't insert those images of random people shaking their heads or fingers hehehe. I personally find those a bit annoying... Anyway, keep up the good work!
i think also a reason african countries fail at the world cup is that a lot of talented players in europe have african origins but decided not to play for africa
True
Good video 😊
Morocco gave Africa the representation it badly needed this World Cup
if 2/3 of your national team was born in europe and learned the skills there. then you can't call that a good representation of africa.
@@bandeano3870 same with france
But lost as usual.
being 4th in the world is not a loss@@ziz728
After looking at the number of teams qualifying for the world - how do you expect especially now for the South American, Asian, or African team to win the world cup when half of the tournament teams are from Europe? I can't believe how we are blaming everything and everyone beside not the number of teams from Europe. Europe have nearly 14 or 16 teams in the world cup, that is crazy. Last world cup when South Korea played Germany! Imagine if that was a final! South Korea could have won the world cup.
Europe has 13, and they’re getting 16 for 2026. South America gets 4, and soon 6, while North America gets 3, and likely gets 6 (and two potential more spots for 2026 with the playoff tournament). So yes, it’s insanely unfair with how much benefit Europe gets
@@m.c.martin europe has more countries playing
Yea always blame us Europeans for all your world problems... Every country has the same chances to Qualify. If you watched the video you would know why Europe is more present then other continents. Btw don't forget that most of Asian/ African pro footballers play for European Clubs
@rs84848 this isn't a problem dude!!! The numbers speak for itself 😂😂.
@@zeda1338 i know
Thanks alot Goal 90 for bringing this to our knowing. I am a young Ugandan studying business... I am going to make sure I do my best to invest or call for investment in local leagues.
Hi fellow Ugandan 🙋🏾♀️
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@@GLO-RY Let's go! Project World Cup 2030!
Uganda is not good a football forget it. West africans and North africans have the talent in football its only them that qualify for the world Cup to rep Africa. East africa should stick to long distance running. Your not good
Cool vid interesting
Africa seem to have no real infrastructure in bringing in young players, instead of relying on failed french/Dutch/English born player's . Players like Salah and mane are world class but very rare players, the lack of funding, investment and alot of corruption is hurting them. Asia has overtook them internationally and that mainly cause country's like Japan and Korea pushed alot of money into youth football, look at both there squads full of bundeliga,la Liga , top leagues. Look at Ghana, Tunisa etc. for example not many play in top leagues
Unfortunately, africa would be one of the richest continents had it not been for european colonialism. When Europe left, they left us with no governments and they took our valuable resources such as our gold. France especially stole a lot of gold from a lot of african nations, and look where they are now with that gold money. Playing with a nearly entire african team, and being one of the richest footballing nations ever. If Europe hadn’t taken our way to make money, we could invest like Asia and be just as good as Europe is right now, while Europe would be no better than North America. Of course, some of it is our fault and some of it was beyond our control. For example, Cameroon rejecting Mbappe, and not being able to play for Algeria either, he had to go with France, which was a huge loss for both nations as he is one of the goats. Other players born in europe with african roots could’ve represented Africa, but didn’t want to. It’s unfortunate how poverty and bad decisions kept us from beating the likes of Europe. Although, someone we could be like is South America and i see no reason why we aren’t like them. Brazilian players from young ages suffered from poverty much like africans and were forced to play outside barefoot with homemade balls, they got good at controlling the ball with their bare feet and learned to do so with shoes. Africa is the same, in fact, it may be argued that football is played more by ordinary people and youth in Africa than in Brazil. Especially in my country and countries like it, morocco. We play 24/7. On the beach? forget swimming, perfect place to have a 6 on 6. Streets? Sidewalk? Alleyway? Even indoors, we play anywhere. Unfortunately much like you said, we don’t have an infrastructure in bringing in those same young players who are amazing at the game. Most africans are not rich, and play in unorganized teams with their friends, not in payed semi pro youth leagues. And those kids who play in the dirt sand and mud with their friends can easily be miles better than those playing in those youth leagues. If a couple scouts just for a little while went to the beach or a random field and watched groups of teens or kids play, they could identify talent early on. Most of the kids in Africa who are good at the sport like I said don’t play in a league at all. I only met a few people other than me who play in leagues who are good and they most certainly are not african leagues. So until africa tries a little to look outside of their leagues and go try to find talent in the streets and sand, they will forever be forced to rely on players who either get their only skill from europe and beg them to play for africa instead, or settle for mediocre players.
Sorry for the essay, summary:
Although poverty greatly affects how African football works, Africas scouting system still needs to look outside of the leagues and try to identify good talent that doesn’t play for an actual team in order to improve.
Simple answer africa has always had decent teams but there is always better teams
Also doesnt help when half of the brilliant african talent chooses a different nationality
Good for you guys i actually like the content your just watching for the first comment
Everything you said is completely true...
Morocco has made it in the semis
Seriously? We've had our legs cut out from under us and then they scream why can't you run?
Not to mention teams conspiring to ensure an African Nation was knocked out.
While this raises important issues that must be addressed, AMNESIA for the damage done to the continent by the successful nations can't be tolerated.
I wanna see Ghana 🇬🇭 go as far as they can!
We can only wonder what would have happened in 2010 had Suarez not sacrificed himself for Uruguay
Ghana 🙂
Ghana dey go try shaa
As long as they don’t go as far as my country (Brasil)
@andre As long as you don't get in the way of Brasil, I am all for you.
It definitely doesn't help that the best players from Africa usually play for European national teams
france steal it
MOROCCO JUS REACHED THE SEMI FINALS
The glaringly obvious point also omitted is the limited number of slots available to CAF countries compared to other Confederations such as UEFA & Concacaf in previous editions of the world cup. You can only achieve so much with only 4 representatives.
they get 5 while north America gets 3/4 so what are you saying right now
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@@samplingmastersxlr8660 meant to say Conmebol
Yet the poorest performing continent over the past 3 world cups is Africa. Last world cup not one made it out the group stage. The best African teams should be the 5 that qualify but if they don't perform why add more?? Asia do alot better than African teams like this world cup with 3 Asian qualified and only 2 African qualified, same last world cup 2 Asian teams qualified.
Why do African teams fail in the world cup? Because talented African players are playing for France.
There’s more talented players in Africa, they just don’t the opportunity like those in France do. The players in France a privilege they get the best training, government invest in them, the best academies. Africa talent is far more than France that’s just a little sample
Well at least Morocco is in the semis
I hope all do well. Especially Morocco as a Morocco
I am from Finland and half Morocco
@@iti7259 that’s cool
they will fail in the groupstages coming from a Belgian
@@ExoSkills Last time we remember Belgium lost to Morocco 4-1.
@@billyanderson5679 so you think england can lose to US and france to denmark...
Please update this video, morroco broke the stigma in 2022, placing 4th. Will this continue 2026 and will a concacaf team finally reach the final four? Yes america made the final 4 1934 or 30? not too sure, but that was such a long time ago should it be counted ? Hmm
Lets say senegal and one european or south america country gets to the final like argentina or france. And senegal is leading by a goal in the early period and they maintain the lead throughout.Don't you think they will look for a way or reason to push the game beyond 120 minutes which I think its the highest you can get to in order to be finally declared the winner. Won't we begin to see extra times like 130 or 150 minutes. I Know you get my point I don't want to say it all. But all thesame I wish senegal and the other african country best of luck at this world cup. I hope they get far or even win it this time around. It is very much possible.
Wish the DRC was in the cup this year
Apart from the South Americans and Europeans, no one else has world cups, in fact you can count all the world champions on your fingers.
this year we will see cameroon and senegal and ghana make it out to the round of 16 and shock everyone this world cup they have a good chance of reaching quartuer finals
Let's see
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Only Senegal, saying Ghana and Cameroon will pass is a 100% joke, have you seen their groups? Ghana is the WORST team in the world cup (source: FIFA Men's National Team Rankings) and how, JUST HOW, will CAMEROON pass in a group with BRAZIL, Switzerland and Serbia? Senegal is the ONLY African nation that ACTUALLY has a chance of going to the RO16, unless if Ecuador plays better than Senegal, and if France gets grouped (due to champions curse), Tunisia has chances too, but Morocco in a group with 2018 3rd place AND runner-up teams? No.
Conclusion: Senegal and Tunisia are the ones with the highest chances of passing, but they will most likely get eliminated in the Round of 16, why? Because if Senegal passes, they will play either England, USA or Wales, and if Tunisia passed they will have to face either Germany or Spain.
@@guarana-kuat ghana improving cameroon is a good national team nigeria morocco having good squad algeria has a good squad but they need a foreign manager
@@guarana-kuat if you know you know fifa rankings is bs look at their squad and group they will probably beat south korea and uruguay
And Morocco reached the semis after beating and eliminating Belgium, Canada, Spain , Portugal !🇲🇦 💪
Western Sahara 🇪🇭
Every first and second place finisher has been from Europe and South America. Only one third place finish was from outside those continents. The USA was third in 1930.
Korea, if it had not been the host, would certainly not have reached the semi-finals, and the USA, well, that was the first championship, strangely, without the best EU teams, but in fact they only reached the semi-finals, the third place was not defined and later the rules were added and they were awarded third place. So, if Africans had these conditions, they would also have slightly better results.
🇰🇷 cheated! 🇰🇷 vs 🇮🇹
In fact, Korea should not have made it past Italy in that world cup even being as hosts.
However, in the same world cup, the USA was able to made into quarterfinals. If not for the handball cheat, the USA might have made it past Germany to reach the semifinals against Korea or even the finals against Brazil, although the USA won't win the world cup.
Sénégal is the country that can go furthest this time.
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Some people got them as their Dark Horse. I would've pick them too but Canada is my dark horse
@@kennymichaelalanya7134 Senegal will smoke Canada any day
@@kennymichaelalanya7134 this comment aged terribly lmfao
@@HueyFreeman666 yup lol. Senegal might even beat England by the way they're playing plus a key player of theirs will be missing. I just didn't pick them since Sane wasn't playing . Canada played amazing even though they lost to Belgium and Croatia
To be honest if players of African descent weren't allowed to play for countries like France, then maybe we could even see an African side win the WC
Did u watch the video
@@shalyfemusic he is right camavinga was born in angola but plays for france
This is kind of a weird request though, they have the right they’re just as French as the others why not? Just because they are of African descent doesn’t mean they aren’t really French.
@@RVforestgreenWell, no they aren’t french, but they have french nationality. There’s a difference between being french and having french nationality. Although I agree, they should still be able to play in the nation they were born,
although the fact that those players don’t chose africa instead kinda sucks
@@Afrikkid exactly ? That’s what I meant by just as French.
One of the reasons why African countries don't do well is they spend too little time on their teamwork. Many do not understand the importance of teamwork in football. It's more important than having star players playing in top European leagues. At least 2 months is needed for a team to gel.
It’s because there are so many countries in Africa, that’s in the USA every other state being a country
Because they have no interest in football fundamentals and are mostly too busy trying to do big things. It's like someone trying to do long combos in fighting games without first learning how to parry.
Morocco made it, they went to the quarter with a Moroccan coach
they made it to semis, thats an huge achievement
@Justin Y. Nope Moroccans are Amazighs they just speak Arabic along with Tamazight languages and French, even the Moroccan constitution does not say that Morocco is an Arab country, where did you get that from?
@Justin Y. Sorry to hear that, my wife is Moroccan and I live happily with her, so your ex being Moroccan doesn't have nothing to do with why she broke up with you, however, if you are 17 yo why would you need to have a work? Shouldn't you be studying?
as of 18th December 2022, i can say that quarter finals no more as Morocco (Africa) came 4th losing to france in the semis and then croatia in the playoff.
France Morocco two African teams 😂
What about the partial judgement against African players
Who is here after Morocco made the Semi final
Sa has problems
1 they dnt take sports serious
2 our top leauge one team dominates evey year
3 alcohol is one other factor in our football
Aliou Cisse I think is a great coach love to see him in europe
Not enough money for youth development. It has nothing to do with lack of talent but lack of programs and capital funding.
1:12 where is Didier Drogba
Were do you get contents
Were do u get cintents
how come morroco qualified to the semi finals after beaten spain and portugal in round of 16 and quarters and end up being in 4th place in the world cup
cuz in the semi finals and 3rd place game they lost their two CBs due to injury, Aguerd, and Romain Saiss, they were so solid and good. one of the reasons why Morocco haven't conceded a goal from an opponent until the semi final.
so we played our second choice CBs, even Mazraoui was injured, so our 3 backs all injured except Hakimi.
Imagine if they were not injured, we could won against France or at least Draw against them and win penalties for sure with Bounou it would be so easy.
Whose here when Morocco got 4th
Why didn't they mentioned Aubaymeying
AUBAMAYENG HAS DONE WHAT IN BIG STAGES. NO UCL NO LEAGUE TITLES AND ONLY FAMOUS FOR WEARING CASUAL CLOTHES AT AFCON AWARDS.. AUBAMAYENG DOESNT REPRESENT AFRICA..HE ONLY JOINED AFRICA FOR MORE GAME TIME CAUSE FRANCE IS FULL
This aged very well
The problem is age cheating
No. Its because FIFA selects very few countries to represent at the world cup compared to Europe and other continents which isn't fair and reduces the probability
Thats because Europe s stronger than Africa. A lot of teams who cannpt qualify in Euro's would still beat African best teams.
@@gediminaskucinskas6952 that's not a fair play. Europe has more probality to win since it gets more teams
Senegal I'm undecided. I think Round of 16 or quarterfinals. Morocco will go to the Round of 16 as group winners. Tunisia will be third in their group. Cameroon bottom without a point. Ghana bottom with a single point.
Morocco is gonna stay in group stage what are u talking about
@@jre.bored0153 yeah about that..
@@JC2007. I'm dumb ill admit
Ghana got three points and cameroon 4
@@carlin_agyei Yes
It’s simple our sports organizations are not investing enough to developing home grown talents.
Morocco is trying to break the jinx
Morocco is the first African team to make it to the Semi's
Well maybe if the best African players actually played for Africa, and not them Europeam teams, they'd do better
Williams brothers have one playing for Spain and the other for Ghana
Then this guy embolo born in Cameroon raised in Switzerland plays for the Swiss
You’ll have guys like mahrez, mane, salah, weah, drogba, etc but never a complete team cuz Europe will keep taking the players. Why play for an African team that has little chance at winning a World Cup over the country they were raised in
African countries do well at age group tournament bcos we use overaged players. Ever since MRI was introduced how many times has African country won the tournaments? Thats the fact
Morocco: hold my green tea
Western Sahara 🇪🇭
Saying Asia had a Country to get 4th place when she played AT HOME and had at least 2 games won by very peculiar referee decisions.
(not saying those games were Sold, but they were not far from it )
as a show that they are better then Africa is kinda lame comparison
And USA had a Semi in 1930 , the very first World Cup when the best European Countries didn't join
Out of 44 chances Africa got 3 Teams to the Quarter final
Asia had 37 chances and got 1 Time Quarter 1 Time Semi
N. America had 42 chances and got 5 Times Quarter, 1 Time Semi (in a WC that didn't have Quarter Finals)
those are close numbers, and doesn't show that Africa is less successful the the other 2
In the end there are only 2 Regions that manage to truly and repeatably get to the World Cup Semi - Europe and S. America
the World cup is a VERY VERY Closed circuit only a quarter of the teams that show managed to get to the Semi and only 10% of them managed to win
Then you compare to S. America with 85 chances (almost double the rest) and an impressive record of 9 Wins, 5 Additional Finals and 8 Semis
and obv. Europe with 245 chances (so can't compare) 12 Wins, 16 Finals, and another 32 Semis
even though Europe is getting an unfair advantage in the amount of teams it sends
they obviously are better at getting to the final stages percentage wise
"Why do African countries fail at the World Cup"
Because they don't have the best teams
France was the first African team to win the World Cup.
Um no France is not a African team lol there a lot of African in France but France even doesn't even call themselves Africans
@@emmanuelcooper326 😂😂
France is not African county an European country
@jfpo5 meant that most French players are African eg mbappe pogba umtiti etc
Well that means Australians & Americans are European. Also, Argentina should give their 2 WC wins to Italy/Spain because that’s where most of them descend from.
USA was called 3rd with Yugoslavia also 3rd in 1930 first world cup... The match between these two for 3rd place never played however US had better goal dif but thats because Yugoslavia was robbed in the match versus Uruguay making a police officer pass the ball to Uruguay striker and thats how ex-Yu loses that game. If that didn't happend Yugoslavia might been 1st world cup winner 🏆.
Because France, Portugal, England, USA.....you get it.
morroco is doing amazing here
If African football federations actually invested in their leagues instead of forcing people to play on the street, countries like Ghana,Egypt Nigeria and South Africa would have reached the finals many times
Pele once said that one day an African country will become world champion
Jackie Chan once said that one day an Asian country will become world champion
And he saw it in 2018 😂😂
Most of Africans best player choose to represent their colonial masters, plus the FIFA institution is against them winning also
Yes but also some of the players are born in those colonizer countries but are of African descent lol.
Have you not seen the European teams with African players
Africa has only won three knockout matches, Asia has won two, and North America has won three.... they're all in the same boat!
ok Morocco made it to 4 , and SF
can't wait for them to do well except for one team Ghana our team lost to them (South Africa) b/c they cheated the ref was one of theirs referees so ye we didn't make it good luck to the others tho
I like the fact that his calling Africans talented that makes me feel good
The real question is what is France doing right in training these players
Europe have 13 entrance
Australasia 2 with 7 the countries in their continent and population of 40mil,
Asia 7
South America 6
Africa 5 and u have the audacity to say Afrixa is micro managing badly when the whole competition is hugely unfair towards them
morroco broke the curse
Guess where all those players where born and raised at ‘FRANCE’ it obviously France has the best training academies idk how
@@fivefour5514 not really
some yes but not all
and yes france has amazing training academies ..
No excuses #africanteams do it for Africa 🫶🏽🔥🇸🇳🇨🇲🇬🇭🇲🇦🇹🇳
Come on Morocco 🇲🇦
Morocco did it finally 👏
I want mane and edouard Mendy lead senegal as far as they can🇸🇳
Respect to mahrez,Mane,Mendy for not playing for European nations
Because teams from Europe and South America are stronger
At least morroco got to the semis
Africa has too many countries, had Africa been just 15 countries the best players could be put together in 5 countries to win the world cup.
Morocco finished 4th
Bad should’ve finished 3rd 😂
pov: aliou cisse is watching ...
I want to be a soccer player and I'm in Africa. So this concerns me
Mee tooo
Same
Its footbal>:(
Same I wanna be a soccer player and play for Ghana one day 😀
Me too
Egypt in 2010 had the best ever African team that was unlucky to reach the world cup on 10 out of 11 players who play in local teams
Morroco was now in the semifinals
@@I-do-random_stuff so?
If it was the best ever african team, why didn't it even qualify for the world cup?
Senegal have mane and Koulibaly
But I'm as an feel ops in world cup (football)
It takes time for under developed countries to gradually improve to World Cup standards. It takes money and good coaches. They are talented and have heart but need guidance.
Morocco saved Argentina from playing Portugal. Morocco lost to France and to Croatia without any silver or bronze medal. No disrespect to Morroco---you do what you have to do.
if the referee wasnt from argentina we wouldve won
@@brincadeirasdogu9750not really, but we wouldn't really know for sure
Even if Morocco could not Argentina from playing Portugal, France would.
@@jimmyyue238 true France is the best African team 😂😂
Well in Qatar, Morocco got 4th place
Watch Italia 90 England v Cameroon maybe u will understand
En el mundial 2018 fue campeón África
WOW🤔
A continent of untapped potential, but far too problems to maximise even 20% of it
Africa has talent ie football basketball 🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀 etc by Steve Irungu Jermaine
Morocco and Senegal got their chance.
Because of france, germany and belgium