Some of the Football WCs have seen games like Brazil vs North Korea, France vs Honduras, Italy vs New Zealand etc, and you even get the midweight and lightweight matches as you call it. Matches like these have been so one sided or utterly boring, they make for some terrible watching. I guess the thing going for football is that it ends in 90 minutes, cricket lasts a whole day. 90 minutes of boring is more tolerable than a whole day.Kriterion_BD wrote: ↑Sat Mar 17, 2018 7:35 am
I'm not a soccer fan so I'm just guessing a bit here. But in FIFA you have the true heavyweights like Brazil, Argentina, Germany, Spain, France, Italy, and England. Thats FIFA's equivalent of the Big 3, only they have a Big 7. Midweights like Portugal, USA, Netherlands, randon Latin and European nations are like SA, PAK, NZ, SL in cricket. Again FIFA probably has 12-20 of these midweights. The you have teams that can be decent on their day (equivalent of WI, BD) like Sweden, Egypt, Australia, Poland, Czech Republic and many others.
In saying that, the Football WC already has some dross and poor matches, yet FIFA wants to expand it, and they want to expand it to regions that have teams you would class as low midweight to light weight.
There are many other factors to football such as their being strong football leagues across the globe and more international matches between all the team and not just between the big boys. The list can go on here, so it's best not to compare the sports as a whole, but just the actual event.