In the World Cup, the status of Asian teams and African teams is relatively marginalized, except for the 2002 World Cup South Korea won the fourth place with less convincing means, the rest of the Asian and African teams have never reached the final four of the World Cup, and the best result is only the top eight. In the face of the super teams in Europe and South America, although Asian and African teams have occasional upset experiences, most of them are the objects of being ravaged by the other side.
In fact, if you look at the World Cup quota in Asia and Africa, you will know that the strength and status of teams on both continents are similar. There are 5 places in Africa and 4.5 places in Asia. But there are more countries in Africa. So the two sides are still similar.
And this balance of power is reflected in the World Cup arena, that is, the results of the confrontation are equal.
In the World Cup, Asian teams and African teams play each other very frequently, and almost every World Cup has direct competition between Asian and African teams, of course, most of them are in the group stage.
As for the result, although there are wins and losses between each other, they are generally equally divided. This time you win, next time I win back; here I win, over there you win again.
Just a few examples.
Classic examples of Asian teams beating African teams, such as Saudi Arabia's victory over Morocco in 1994 and Japan's victory over Cameroon in 2010.
Classic examples of African teams beating Asian teams, such as Cameroon's victory over Saudi Arabia in 2002 and Algeria's 4-2 victory over South Korea in 2014.
In fact, these cases also have a feature, that is, the score gap is not large, most of them are a ball point difference, like Algeria's victory over South Korea, the score is already very large, and although there are many goals, it is actually only a gap of two goals.
As for the other competitions, most of them are draws, so I will not elaborate.
Of course, among the many direct confrontations between Asia and Africa, one is more special, because this is the only one-sided one in the history of the World Cup in the history of Asian and African teams.
The score was 3:0, which can be said to be crushing.
The two sides are Côte d'Ivoire in Africa and North Korea in Asia.
The match took place at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. At that time, North Korea had already eliminated early after losing both wars, and Côte d'Ivoire still had a chance to qualify. So in this game, Côte d'Ivoire played very actively, and also tried to fight for the goal difference, so the 3:0 score came into being.
And North Korea had no intention of fighting at that time, and since it had been eliminated, what else was there to fight? You know, in the last game they were just beaten by Portugal a 7-0, and their morale was all lost. If there had not been such a fiasco, perhaps North Korea would still have the desire to fight a battle of honor, but a 7:0 show left them completely demoralized.
But in addition to morale and desire to fight, there is another key to the great victory of Côte d'Ivoire, that is, their strong oppressive force and impact. You know, the Ivorian players are physically strong and have strong impact, and a monster-level giant like Drogba is very intimidating in front of Asian players. Although North Korea is fierce in its fight, after all, its physical conditions are limited, and in the face of African tough factions, all aspects will be suppressed.
So in this game, Côte d'Ivoire crushed North Korea in any one way.
Qatar World Cup, the competition between Asian and African teams will continue, let's wait and see who can prevail this time.