Re: How good would they be?

On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 23:12:51 GMT, gaborzinho
<fgabor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>It is now, but it did not use to be. When Uruguay won it, it WAS the WC.

That's correct. If you add their two Olympic wins, Uruguay were world
champions 4 times. Now there's a per-capita best soccer playing
nation of all time. That's still true even if you don't count their
Olympic titles. To match Uruguay's 2 WC titles, Brazil would have to
win the WC another 45 or 50 times to catch up. That would take a
minimum of 200 years.

This again demonstrates the difficulty with the per-capita argument.
.

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