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you're right france don't belong in a list alongside korea and the usa.
they've proven it was no fluke by winning the euro(the toughest soccer competition) in holland 2 years after that


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Sorry, but I'm going to have to disagree with your Euro-centric views here. There is NO way in hell you can claim that Euro is tougher than the World Cup.

I understand the argument, in the World Cup you have teams like Trinidad and Tobago and Angola that would probably lose to the 40th best team in Europe.

But what does beating Angola in one game get you? Three points with no guarentee that you will make the second round.

More important than missing out on the easy teams in Euro, you also miss out on Brasil, the most dominant team in the history of international football, as well as Argentina, one of the most dominant teams in the history of international football. Last time I checked South America has won more combined World Cups than Europe.

Plus, there are no really good teams that are at Euro that aren't at the World Cup. Fourteen European teams make the World Cup, only two less than the number at Euro.

Besides if last World Cup is any indication (I'll concede that it was flukey that so many top European teams lost early) other continents are catching up. Korea defeated Portugal, Italy, and Spain. The United States also beat Portugal and Senegal bounced Sweden. To say these teams aren't capable of beating good European sides is simply untrue.

That being said, Euro does run a close second to the World Cup and I love watching it. To compare any other continental championship to Euro would be a joke.