Topic: ⚽ FIFA U-17 World Cup Discussion Thread ⚽ - page 3. (Read 378 times)

Since you said your country won the 2015 FIFA U-17 World Cup, you should be from Nigeria.
Nigeria is one of the most successful teams in history of FIFA U-17 world cup with winning the title 4 times, but they haven't qualified for the 2023 tournament. As mentioned by OP, CAF qualified teams are Burkina Faso, Mali, Morocco and Senegal.

Although I follow a lot of games, different championships, and know a lot of players, including the younger ones, I don't have a very good knowledge of the U-17 players, only the Brazilian players.
Many of them have not yet played for the professional teams, which makes it very difficult to follow

I particularly find it a more difficult tournament than others to place good bets.

Some examples: the Mali team was runner-up in 2015, and 4th place in 2017. Switzerland was champions in 2009, and Nigeria has won the tournament 4 times.

What I can say is only what I know, the Brazilian team. They are the current champions of the tournament and also the current South American champions (without lose any match). The team is really good and if anyone is interested, the team will play on the June 27th (tomorrow) and the 30th, two friendly matches against Mexico
During the championship I will analyze whether the bets will be worthwhile. I believe Brazil will be the favorite

It's not many months before this world cup starts, I haven't been following the U-17 soccer much, so it's very difficult for me to predict who will be the champion this time, I'll wait for the next few months to see when the news channels start talking a lot about this world cup, they will give very important data about the performance of each U-17 national team, based on that it will also be easier for me to search for more data, but until they get close to the start date of the competition so that I see more data and have an idea of who I'm going to bet one thing I can say now are the teams that I don't expect to win this tournament

I also don't expect to see indonesia winning this tournament, even though it's organized in indonesia, i see indonesia with no chance to win this tournament, i also don't see argentina, new zealand and new caledonia, ecuador, and venezuela, canada, mexico, United States, and Panama, Burkina Faso, Mali, Morocco, and Senegal and Poland. these countries that I mentioned are in my opinion the countries that I do not see them being champions, in the case of other countries like Japan, Iran, Yemen, Thailand, South Korea, Australia, Saudi Arabia, Uzbekistan any of these countries that qualify for the U-17 world cup will not have a chance to be champion

in my opinion for now the countries that can win this year are england, germany, spain, brazil, france. one of them has a chance of winning, and it's true that I don't have much data on the performance of each national team, so I'm guessing. but in a small analysis I see these countries with greater chances of winning this cup

Well am not sure I have any favorite when its comes to football tournament and especially the youth competition like this one but am pretty sure my country has a strong team unlike the national team anytime it come to the youth team especially the under17 and they were also previous winner of the competition in 2015 and would love to see them perform well again of possible.

Yes this is correct, there is no FIFA U-21 world cup. Only UEFA hosts EURO U-21 tournaments for the youths in the European countries. Also Africa only follows FIFA model, U-17, U20, U-23 (Olympic Squad). In few months time, we will find out the country with the best footballers in teenagers football. I think France would do well to win the competition.

Iran, South Korea, Japan and Uzbekistan advanced to semi-final of AFC U-17 asian cup and qualified for the final tournament of FIFA U-17 world cup.


There is no FIFA U-21 world cup. We have U-17 and U-20 world cups.

U-17 World Cup - basically, it's tournament where teenagers play and it makes very difficult to predict something. Honestly, I have no idea who is main favorites here, but probably we should look at usual suspects like Brazil, Argentina, France, Spain, Germany and England. Now I can't even find outright odds for this tournament.
BTW, currently EURO-21 is outgoing which is much bigger thing as there is some big names are playing there. But as I understand, we don't have topic to discuss it, or I didn't found it...

Is really hard to say which team is the best or favorite at this early stage, but we just have to see how these young lads battle to the final stage of the tournament.
We just have to make a choice eventually and I'd tip the England team as the favorite, they're just like the senior team with so much zeal and they're still pushing hard to get to the senior team so is going to be like we're watching the senior team play. I just feel with so much talents on this young team it will be hard for other teams like the Brazilians to come close.

Same, I will also favor my beloved country, Indonesia. Previously, the Indonesia youth national team successfully won the U-16 AFF Cup last year, I think the squad Indonesia U-17 this years will be filled with young players who have won achievements at that time.
But in reality it will be very tough for Indonesia, because reigning champions Brazil will probably have a higher chance to win the title, considering their are also having produced a lot of professional players.

It is difficult to predict who will be the favorite in this tournament for several reasons.
The fundamental reason, in my opinion, is that each team that will compete is not known for its players and their quality.

The 2019 U17 World Cup in Brazil according to the FIFA timeline, the winner is Brazil.
In 2017 in India, winner of England and in 2015 in Chile, winner of Nigeria.



As an initial prediction, I will choose a team from the Concacaf zone which will emerge as the winner of the U17 World Cup which will be held in Indonesia.

First of all welcome back to the forum, how's the past month? Have you found peace in the real world?

Talking about favorites, I don't know which team to favorite because Indonesia (my country) will also be playing in this tournament. Of course, there's no doubt that I will favor Indonesia regardless of whether they are a weak or strong team.

BTW, It's quite a surprise to see the U-17 world cup taking place in Indonesia after the U-21 world cup was canceled in this country.

Previously, the U17 World Cup was to be held in Peru, but due to several reasons, FIFA could not proceed with it because it considered that the supporting infrastructure for the U17 World Cup was not ready and not feasible, so FIFA canceled it. Then FIFA announced and appointed Indonesia to be the substitute host for this World Cup, maybe this had something to do with the cancellation of the U20 World Cup which was to be held in Indonesia, so FIFA considered Indonesia because it had previously prepared everything for the World Cup in the age group.
This may be medicine for Indonesia after the previous big disappointment because they failed to host the U20 World Cup.

In the next few months FIFA U-17 World Cup will start in Indonesia, several major football countries will compete for the title, among them is:

Europe: English, France, Germany, Poland, and Spain.

Conmebol: Brazil (defending champions), Argentina, Ecuador, and Venezuela.

Africa: Burkina Faso, Mali, Morocco, and Senegal

Concacaf: Canada, Mexico, United States, and Panama.

Oceania: New Zealand and New Caledonia.

And still have 4 seats from Asia which is still being contested: Iran vs Yemen, Thailand vs South Korea, Japan vs Australia, and Saudi Arabia vs Uzbekistan, and of course including Indonesia which is the host and is entitled to 1 ticket.

So, what is your favorite?