Talking about Asia and Asian teams in the World Cup maybe a team like Japan can have a good performance because of the players they have on good and top-level teams in Europe, but still, the fact about these teams is you can judge Germany or Japan just because of a single game and we know during the history of the world cup the Asian teams never achieved any title before. I think still there is no chance even for a team like Japan or South Korea to achieve anything.
We have to take a holistic view of this, Asian countries have yet to win a World Cup title, but we also have to see that they are progressing in that direction as Asian football continues to grow. If we go back 10 or 20 years, we wouldn't have seen the strength of Asia, but now they are better than ever.
Okay, so let's put aside Germany's crushing defeat to Japan in the last match, but we must also remember how many Asian countries can beat a powerhouse like Germany even in a friendly match?
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Japan or South Korea may not win a title at a World Cup anytime soon, but may I remind you that these times are certainly capable of kicking out renowned nations like Germany? Japan has beaten Germany and Spain in their group in Qatar and they finished the group as 1st in front of Spain and Germany, thereby sending Germany home.
South Korea tied their game against Uruguay and beat Portugal to then finish the group 2nd and send Uruguay home. Uruguay is not some amateur group from nowhere.
Of course they are not title favorites or anything like that, but they have to be taken seriously as teams that can give any other other team a hard time.
Now I agree with you, that maybe they won't be able to win a World Cup title in the near future, but I believe that it will happen in the future, as to when I can't say for sure.
I'm also not going to say that Asian countries like Japan have surpassed European countries in football, but again I'm saying that their progress is in that direction. I'm going to talk about distance now, if before the difference between Asian and European countries was rarely 10 for example, I think that difference has narrowed down and could be 6 to 8.