South America has no longer produced a World Cup-triumphing aspect for 2 decades due to the fact so lots of their players are unfold across the globe, Colombia coach Reinaldo Rueda has counseled.
Brazil have been the remaining state from the continent to win the most important prize in soccer, prevailing at the 2002 World Cup in Japan and South Korea. Since then, Italy, Spain, Germany and France have all gained the name, with simplest Argentina coming near from the CONMEBOL confederation once they completed second at Brazil 2014.
Brazil and Argentina will be some of the favourites at Qatar 2022 later this 12 months following incredible qualification campaigns, alongside a number of familiar European opponents chasing fulfillment.
Asked ahead of Colombia's very last qualifying clash with Venezuela this week, wherein they must at the least draw and depend upon effects some other place, too, to make an inter-confederation play-off, Rueda presented an cause of why CONMEBOL facets have arise quick over the past 4 variants.
"Without doubt, [players playing in Europe] has always been our biggest worry, the trouble that we've got in South America," Rueda stated. "I even have said so typically. South America, with the potential and skills that it has, we're approaching now twenty years without a World Cup winner due to that situation.
"Because our largest abilties go to Europe and for some of them, it is hard, relying on the proportion of these gamers which can be within the national groups, to respond in the identical way. Then gamers coming from Europe need to attend two or three tournaments. South America has been a victim of this trouble within the closing 20 years. That has been a thing that explains why strong countrywide groups have not been capable of consolidate suitable performances and to win a international name that hasn't came about due to the fact 2002."
