QUOTE(Forza_internazionale @ Aug 10 2006, 08:22 AM)

In this world cup, no african team was complete. In my opinion, Ivorycoast had the best attack, ghana best midfield, angola best defence and tunisia best keeper. Togo were just crap.
That pretty much sums it up. What everyone needs to remember is that it takes a long time to build consistent success. Look at the US, they had one really great WC in 2002, and all of the sudden every writer was ranking them in top 5- Crap, just crap. You cannot sustaint consistent success in international play without a stable and competitive domestic league. The countries that most frequently compete at the Fifa WC are England, France, Italy, Germany, Brasil and Argentina. Other countries like Spain and Holland also make good runs and are forces to be reckon with. And they all have great domestic leagues. I've noticed that in the last 15 years the Mexican league has gotten better, and in my opinion, their national team is clearly more competitive.
Africa has amazing talents. In fact, with the evolution of better domestic leagues, Africa will be superior to Europe in producing talent. (not better than S.America thou. . slow down there, I can't give you my homeland, I have to defend S.America) But I digress, the reason we don't see complete teams come out of Africa is b/c their domestic leagues have to be run better and more stable. Hosting the WC in 2010 will do amazing wonders for Afrika. IMO, Nigeria will be among the 5 favorites in 2010. Too many talents at the youth level to be ignored. Man, Argentina was lucky that we had Messi in the 2005 youth WC.