After the article was published, some fans wondered what if they saw a connection between the CONCACAF and the World Cup? After all, CONCACAF has been held in years past, and the World Cup will be held the following year, so with only one year to go, the team lineup is theoretically fairly complete, and what would happen if the U.S. country with a good World Cup record went to CONCACAF?
First of all, we must mention that the America's Cup has an early origin, but the early cycles of the competition were uncertain. It was organized annually and every two years. At most, it was only organized once every six years. Therefore, there are no statistics for the early tournaments, starting directly with the 1975 Copa America, in which all 10 CONCACAF teams were allowed to participate.
The pictures and text make it clear that only Brazil and Argentina have managed to reach the top three of the World Cup in the last 50 years. In the 12 World Cups since 1978, South American teams have only made it to 8 World Cups, half each for Brazil and Argentina.
In 1978, World Cup winners Argentina won the World Cup for the first time and held it on their home turf. While there was a lot of political controversy surrounding that match, that is not the focus of this article. In the World Cup final, Argentina beat the Netherlands 3-1 in an extended match.
For the 1979 Copa America, the tournament did not have a dedicated country, but rather countries took turns being the venue. Maradona, who was not selected for the 1978 World Cup because he was too young, was selected for this Copa America and scored the first goal of his adult national team career against Bolivia. However, World Cup winners Argentina exited the group stage, winning one and losing one of their four matches against Bolivia and drawing one and losing one against Brazil.
I'm sure everyone is familiar with the 1986 World Cup championship, a World Cup that belonged to Maradona, where the 'Hand of God' and the 'Goal of the Century' both took place, and where Argentina beat West Germany 3-2 in the final to win the title.
A year later, at the Copa América in Argentina, although Maradona scored three goals, the team lost 0-1 to Uruguay at the end of the group stage, and 1-2 to Colombia in the third game, and finished fourth. The results were not very good and Maradona was criticized by public opinion.
Brazil was the winner of the 1994 and 2002 World Cups, with Dunga, Bebeto, and Romario in 1994, and everyone is familiar with Ronaldo, Ronaldo, Rivaldo, Carlos, Cafu, and other famous players in 2002.
Subsequently, the U.S. Cup Brazil is also very good, 1 title and 1 runner-up, but the final is PK war, 1995 lost to Uruguay, 2004 beat Argentina, 2004 quarterfinals and the final is PK war, the championship process is not easy, but the Brazilian did not use the famous star, Cristiano Ronaldo, Ronaldo, etc. did not play, the Golden Boot was called the genius Adriano, whose 7 goals were far ahead of the rest of the players.
World Cup runners-up were also good in the Copa America, with 2 titles and 1 runner-up, 1990 World Cup runners-up Argentina did not do well in the World Cup, winning 1, drawing 1, and losing third in the group, beating Brazil 1-0 in the knockout rounds, and then defeating Yugoslavia and Italy by 12-yarders in two consecutive matches before finally losing 0-1 to West Germany in the final.In the 1991 Copa America, the war hero Batistuta won the Golden Boot award, and also helped Argentina win the Copa America.
No one knows why Ronaldo underperformed in the 1998 World Cup final, where Brazil beat France to finish second. At the Copa America the following year, he and Rivaldo scored five goals to easily help Brazil win the title.
In 2014, Argentina lost to Germany and became World Cup runners-up. 2015 Copa America lost the final PK battle to Chile. In fact, there was another Copa America Centenario in 2016. At that time, Argentina lost the final PK battle to Chile. Lionel Messi regretted being runner-up in the final for the third year in a row.
The Copa America is roughly as above. Since only Brazil and Argentina managed to finish in the top three at the World Cup, these two powerful teams are arguably the best teams in CONCACAF. Most of the CONCACAF performances after the World Cup weren't too bad, especially the five after 1990, which were either winners or runners-up, so it's hard to differentiate between the World Cup or CONCACAF. At least with not much to go on at the moment, as long as Brazil and Argentina do well in the World Cup, they won't do badly in the next Copa America.
After completing the America's Cup, the last article was written about the World Cup results after two years of the top three teams in Europe getting the European Cup. Here we also compare the World Cup results of the European Cup and the runners-up two years later. We only look at the winners and runners-up because there is no such thing as a third place in the European Cup after 1984, so there is no information to use.
