Argentina’s victory may indicate who will win the World Cup in Canada and Mexico four years from now

Whether you’re rooting for France or Argentina, you have to admit that the Qatar World Cup final was about as dramatic as it gets. It is hard not to feel the drama, even for those who have long since bragged or faulted. Fans of Messi, of course, will be pleased with the result and regard it as a perfect ending to their youth; ​fans of France and Mbappe, of course, are full of regret and dissatisfaction. But this is what football gives us. Serie A standings.We can either embrace it or accept it, and the Qatar World Cup, which lasted nearly a month, is over.

For a fan, the quadrennial World Cup, like the scale in life, whenever the World Cup comes, we enjoy at the same time, will also feel an inexplicable cruelty – our life, is not embedded in one after another four years? After the Qatar World Cup, everyone will move on with their lives, but everyone will have something to look forward to – in four years, we will have the World Cup in Canada and Mexico.

There is no telling how much will change in world football between now and 2026. So predicting the winner in four years’ time is far too wide of the mark. But the World Cup has a lot of magic. Obviously there is no inevitable connection and logic, but the history of the World Cup, will be born a lot of coincidence and rules. The Qatar World Cup was won by Argentina, and if we combine that with history, we might actually be able to predict the winner of the MexicAn-American World Cup four years from now.

Start with the poles of world football. As we all know, the two poles of world football are Europe and South America. So far, all the World Cup champions are from these two continents, as for Africa, North America, Asia, Oceania team, let alone the title, to now even the threshold of the final has not crossed into it. The Qatar World Cup, Argentina versus France, was a continuation of that order, a European versus a South American team, which has been the theme of every World Cup.

So who comes out on top in World Cup terms, South America or Europe? Different angles mean different things. For example, when it comes to the total number of championships, there are slightly more European teams; ​when it comes to the number of titles won by individual teams, South American teams are stronger. After all, Brazil’s record of five titles remains unbroken. If you look at the number of derbies, that is, the number of finals involving teams from the same continent, then Europe has more.

Before 2014, of course, South American teams had one achievement that made European teams look down on themselves: they had won the World Cup in Europe, in 1958 in Sweden. Apart from this example, neither European nor South American teams have conquered each other’s territory, that is, European teams cannot win in South America, and South American teams cannot win in Europe.

At the 2014 World Cup, Germany finally made Europe proud, lifting the World Cup on Brazilian soil.

Speaking of territory, that brings us to the details we are going to talk about today — you know, the World Cup has not only been held in Europe and South America, so far, the World Cup has also been held in Asia, North America and Africa, including once in Africa, twice in Asia and three times in North America.

We’ll focus on Asia and North America. The first time Asia hosted the World Cup was in Japan and South Korea in 2002. Remember who won it? Brazil.

This year’s World Cup came to Qatar in West Asia, and the champion has just been named – Argentina.

Ok, let’s move on to North America. North America has hosted the World Cup three times, in Mexico in 1970 and 1986, and in the United States in 1994. Remember who the champion was? Brazil, Argentina, Brazil.

The results are clear. When it comes to Asia and North America, Europe has been wiped out in the end. The only two continental champions are Brazil and Argentina. If this happened only once or twice, it might not be a problem, but Asia and North America have hosted five World Cups between them.

Here’s the kicker. In four years, the World Cup will return to North America, this time hosting the United States, Mexico and Canada. If the past few times are anything to go by, the winner will probably be Brazil or Argentina. After all, no European team has won in Asia or North America.

Of course, this analysis doesn’t have any rigid logic, it’s just a list of coincidences that have happened. But as I said before, many coincidences in World Cup history just don’t make sense, but they just happen. Four years from now, let’s see. After Argentina wins, will it be Brazil’s turn?

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