Can an African Team Win the World Cup? Africa
. The world has been waiting for this since the great Brazilian player Pelé predicted that an African country would win before the year 2000.
Africa's best played lower levels of competition and won less often. Instead of competing with the world's best, Africa's top countries seem better matched to a country like Greece, which has played in threeand made the last 16 in 2014. This is an impressive record, but few people outside Greece consider the country a potential World Cup winner.
Africa's top soccer playing nations do not compete regularly with top nations and are thus not able to learn these technologies. They may dominate continental tournaments, therefore, but will ultimately lack the knowhow needed to really compete - consistently and regularly - with the world's best.
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