Has the nations league impacted European sides

Take England as an example When was the last time we played a non European side a Brazil or a Cameroon in a friendly as all we seem to do now is play seemingly endless games v Italy Holland Germany Spain etc and it’s the same for the other European sides. Yes covid had an impact as well but it’s clear when Brazil Have only played one European side since the last would cup (Czechs) that options are a lot more limited now.

Normally in a World Cup cycle year you’d play against like minded sides that you expect to face so we’d play a Cameroon or Nigeria to prepare for poss African opposition but this year with no friendlies we have had no such prep.

But the same is true for African and other continents as well they can’t play European sides as they are all tide in with nations leagues.

Tomorrow we face a side we’ve never faced before not even in a friendly so it will be interesting what experience we draw on as our lack of African style opposition could be a factor.
Do you just get a thought in your head and think I’ll instantly post it on here?

We only used to face teams if we knew we were
Gonna face them in the group. It proved to be flawed anyway as we’ve done better without doing that. We’d wouldn’t have scheduled a game against an African team because we didn’t have one in the group

England have had better results at tournaments since the nations league.

South American teams have always had limited Opportunities to play European team as they have a different qualification system

I think it’s disingenuous to say that the whole of Africa play a similar style
 

It's very rare now, which is why the South Americans have pushed to join the Nations League.
Boniek was a cracking player. It would make sense for South Americans to join the Nations League, but wonder if they would play their home games at home?
 
Boniek was a cracking player. It would make sense for South Americans to join the Nations League, but wonder if they would play their home games at home?

The plan, according to that article, is for all the matches to be in Europe.

I presume it'd be a neutral venue for the "home" tie.
 
The plan, according to that article, is for all the matches to be in Europe.

I presume it'd be a neutral venue for the "home" tie.
I have noticed an increasing tendency for South American - and other non-European teams, to play friendlies in Europe in recent years. It's usually explained that it's because a fair proportion (and in some cases the majority) of their players play in Europe so it means less traveling overall, for the members of the squad.
 
Allowing Brazil and Argentina in could be the start of UEFA destroying FIFA
You'd think logistically for most top level countries, playing in the UEFA nations league competition would be beneficial? As in a big chunk of the Brazil, Argentina, US squads etc have their players based here anyway.

Probably a bit shìté for their fans back home though.

You would think the TV rights to a friendly competition that pits Brazil, Argentina etc against the likes of France, Spain, Germany and us would be higher?

May as well let Japan, China, Korea and Aussies in as well.
 
You'd think logistically for most top level countries, playing in the UEFA nations league competition would be beneficial? As in a big chunk of the Brazil, Argentina, US squads etc have their players based here anyway.

Probably a bit shìté for their fans back home though.

You would think the TV rights to a friendly competition that pits Brazil, Argentina etc against the likes of France, Spain, Germany and us would be higher?

May as well let Japan, China, Korea and Aussies in as well.
might be the goal....and if it's a commercial and PR success, that could be the end of the world cup as we know it and thus the end of FIFA. This could be the plan, we all know that European FAs have real beef with FIFA and with the system where some small Caribbean nation with no footballing DNA can have just as much power in FIFA as Germany, Brazil, France, England or China.
 
might be the goal....and if it's a commercial and PR success, that could be the end of the world cup as we know it and thus the end of FIFA. This could be the plan, we all know that European FAs have real beef with FIFA and with the system where some small Caribbean nation with no footballing DNA can have just as much power in FIFA as Germany, Brazil, France, England or China.
That is what I'm thinking too, played over a two two year cycle to fit between the Euros, if CONCAF and African nations roll the same way, no need for a World Cup!

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