Is that why Portugal was eliminated by Morocco, Uruguay and mighty USA in the WCs?
Is that why Germany got eliminated twice in the group stage in the last two WCs losing to Japan, Mexico and South Korea?
Has England ever beaten the US in the WC on three occasions they met?
Below is how Europeans performed in 2022 WC:
Germany: lost to Japan, eliminated in the group stage
Belgium: eliminated by Morocco in the group stage
Denmark: lost to Australia, drew with Tunisia, eliminated as the worst team in the group stage
Netherlands: drew with Ecuador, lost to Argentina
Spain: lost to Japan, eliminated by Morocco in the 2nd round
Portugal: lost to South Korea, eliminated by Morocco in the QFs
Wales: lost to Iran, drew with the US, eliminated as the worst team in the group stage
England: drew with the US
Poland: lost to Argentina, drew with Mexico
Serbia: lost to Brazil, drew with Cameroon, eliminated as the worst team in the group stage
Also people don't know that historically Copa was won by Colombia, Bolivia, Paraguay, Peru and that even Mexico was a finalist two times.
Of course there are aspects, as simple as math related that make the Euros harder to win it:
. It's not played every two years, teams have to wait longer for the opportunity
. There are more teams involved and more possibilities of for instance more traditional teams to win it.
At the end of the day it looks like the fanatism with EPL makes people believe that teams from there walk on water and they only loose against other Continental rivals because they are more tired. Even if it's the best League, such huge gap does not exist, even in a world that has helped to create those diff in financial terms and it's not anymore a worldwide spread collection of very powerful and traditional Leagues like in the 40s and the 80s (yet even in those days, still had lots of snobism and prejudice coming from Europe).
It's football in a NT KO style competition that like WCs have shown every etidion anyone can beat anyone.
Every competition has its own tendencies, to play sometimes in altitude, with bad pitches, with fellas going after you 70 style, with studs on the chest and mostly a yellow and a siga siga even in a final, it's quite an enviroment. And at the same time as Brasil, Uruguay and Argentina are powers that would always have bigger chances, that also means that if some of them are on streak, sometimes it's like hitting a wall to knock them down and grab a title. Even with that aspect involved, still nor Diego, nor Pele and Brasil and Argentina for many reasons had to deal with lots of years not winning it.
Anyway leaving this silly suppose huge gaps aside, this comparisons only appeared when pushed by certain will or agenda to put the favorite player above another and like always ending devaluating sthg, in this case the NL, the Copa or whatever.
Also at the end of the day, more important than titles in NT KO competitions, or even stats, are perfomances, so it's not just a question of I was there when we won or got a second place, third or whatever, the main thing for me to evaluate, it's how the player in question played any of those tournaments.
And finally, few times it's talked that the records of any SA, African, Asian NTs against an Euro one, must be build in friendlies where hardly Euro teams ever travel to those places, almost always countries outside of Europe has to play as visitors and in WCs, all these areas tend to have way less representatives.
It's actually quite disrepectful to try always to demerit sthg in order to sustain any sort of idea, when not even between Elite players normally exists the suppose gaps in talent many people tend to believe are.
