World cup or Uefa Champ League, which one.....

[ohsee]

The Champions League is clearly the better quality of the two. You will without question see the very best players in the world on showcase. Unlike the world cup where the likes of Uchebo and other useless players from Oceania and other regions can play. The CL is basically the World cup minus minnows. I would obviously rather watch the world cup because its happens less often and it is a global spectacle. But thers is no denying the quality of football in the CL is far higher than watching Saudi Arabia v Honduras or other such matchups.

Really? What do you call Porto, Lyon, Schalke and Tottenham? What are they doing in the final 16?

Besides Spurs have you actually watched the rest played before?

Yup. Saw Lyon beat City, and draw them. Do I have to see the others play to know they are minnows? That is like asking if I have seen the Bredas play to know they will never, ever, ever, ever win the World Cup and are Black Star minnows.

[ohsee]

The Champions League is clearly the better quality of the two. You will without question see the very best players in the world on showcase. Unlike the world cup where the likes of Uchebo and other useless players from Oceania and other regions can play. The CL is basically the World cup minus minnows. I would obviously rather watch the world cup because its happens less often and it is a global spectacle. But thers is no denying the quality of football in the CL is far higher than watching Saudi Arabia v Honduras or other such matchups.

Really? What do you call Porto, Lyon, Schalke and Tottenham? What are they doing in the final 16?

You forgot ManU

Chief, Man U is not a minnow, at least on paper. They've won the CL in recent years, have players of potential, and have a great coach who knows how to pull rabbits from a hat, even though he is not doing in this season.

[ohsee]

The Champions League is clearly the better quality of the two. You will without question see the very best players in the world on showcase. Unlike the world cup where the likes of Uchebo and other useless players from Oceania and other regions can play. The CL is basically the World cup minus minnows. I would obviously rather watch the world cup because its happens less often and it is a global spectacle. But thers is no denying the quality of football in the CL is far higher than watching Saudi Arabia v Honduras or other such matchups.

Really? What do you call Porto, Lyon, Schalke and Tottenham? What are they doing in the final 16?

Wash out your dirty mouth with bleach

Chief, Tottenham will never, never, never, never win the CL. They are the minnow of minnows.

[ohsee]

I cant believe you guys falling for the thread starter trap....
He is looking for reason to say Messi is the greatest since he never win the world cup.
He wants to used the CL to say he has won it many times so he is the greatest,Pele never win it,dam how you guys fall for his trap but thank god no one is picking Cl over world cup and he has not post since open the thread.

I thought it was just me who realized it. There's one thing about Messi fanboys I can't stand is that they're trying to do anything to convince the everybody that he's the greatest of all time even if it means belittling the prestigious World Cup. I can't wait for the 2026 World Cup when Messi is an old bench player and Argentina wins it with little input from him for them to tell us about that glorious World Cup he won.

Chief, Argentina will win the World Cup with Messi watching on TV from a retirement home. I firmly believe that they do not win because of him.

[ohsee]

The Champions League is clearly the better quality of the two. You will without question see the very best players in the world on showcase. Unlike the world cup where the likes of Uchebo and other useless players from Oceania and other regions can play. The CL is basically the World cup minus minnows. I would obviously rather watch the world cup because its happens less often and it is a global spectacle. But thers is no denying the quality of football in the CL is far higher than watching Saudi Arabia v Honduras or other such matchups.

Really? What do you call Porto, Lyon, Schalke and Tottenham? What are they doing in the final 16?

My senior, dis ya comment get as e be o. The WC is still the pinnacle of football but the likes of Spurs, Lyon etc full of international players are still far better than some WC teams

Chief, you be my guy, but I have to speak truth na.

[tfco]

The Champions League is clearly the better quality of the two. You will without question see the very best players in the world on showcase. Unlike the world cup where the likes of Uchebo and other useless players from Oceania and other regions can play. The CL is basically the World cup minus minnows. I would obviously rather watch the world cup because its happens less often and it is a global spectacle. But thers is no denying the quality of football in the CL is far higher than watching Saudi Arabia v Honduras or other such matchups.

Really? What do you call Porto, Lyon, Schalke and Tottenham? What are they doing in the final 16?

My senior, dis ya comment get as e be o. The WC is still the pinnacle of football but the likes of Spurs, Lyon etc full of international players are still far better than some WC teams

:roof:

even the R&R king comes on EN and tells it like it is

[Enugu II]

The Champions League is clearly the better quality of the two. You will without question see the very best players in the world on showcase. Unlike the world cup where the likes of Uchebo and other useless players from Oceania and other regions can play. The CL is basically the World cup minus minnows. I would obviously rather watch the world cup because its happens less often and it is a global spectacle. But thers is no denying the quality of football in the CL is far higher than watching Saudi Arabia v Honduras or other such matchups.

Really? What do you call Porto, Lyon, Schalke and Tottenham? What are they doing in the final 16?

Ohsee,

I was shaking my head on that one oooo! But supporters of those clubs go Lynch you. Trust me. Why you no include Arsenal?

For me, I think the ECL certainly matches the WC in the best players on display. However, it can never match the WC on the value of the WC in terms of how much joy it brings to large number of nationalistic fans across the world and how it holds the entire globe spell bound. That will never be matched except if the ECL is re-conceptualized.

[wiseone]

You must be joking to have RSB (and even Dortmund) on that list of "lousy teams". Just because a team is not super-charged with Arab oil money does not make them "lousy". That Red Star team that won it in 1991 was perhaps one of the most talented teams to ever win it. We do not know how far they would have gone because the team was broken up by the war in Yugoslavia. If you want to know how outrageously talented that team was, look at the following players in that team, then look at the clubs they joined after the war broke out/leaving Red Star;

Dejan Savicevic, Sinisa Mihajlovic, Vladimir Jugovic, Robert Prosinecki, Darko Pancev, Dragisa Binic, Miodrag Belodedici.

Pancev was the European golden boot winner. Keep in mind that this was in the era when the European cup was a straight knockout and before the era of seeded groups that protected the best teams. Read more about them here:

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Also, the Dortmund team that won the CL had the European Footballer of the Year in their team, and they beat Juventus in the final (the same Juventus team that reach 3 successive CL finals with Del Piero, Vialli, Ravanelli, et al in their team). Dortmund also had two World Cup winners in their team!

.....is more difficult to win ?
Which one would you watch if you have to pick one?

Some lousy teams have won the Champions League like Porto, Red Star Belgrade and Borussia Dortmund. How many lousy countries have won the World Cup? The World Cup is won by the top footballing countries--minnows don't wangle their way to the cup as sometimes happens in the Champs League.

The World Cup becomes serious business after the round of 16, a time when the best nations calmly brush aside the pretenders. The winning countries generally have the best defenders and defences--look at the central defence partnership of Umtiti and Varane: what Champions League team would not want to have that? The winning countries are usually capable of stopping Messi, and they stop him quite easily (same goes for Ronaldo). Champs League defences cannot.

I'd pick the World Cup anytime.

[metalalloy]

World cup all day everyday for me.

[ohsee]

The Champions League is clearly the better quality of the two. You will without question see the very best players in the world on showcase. Unlike the world cup where the likes of Uchebo and other useless players from Oceania and other regions can play. The CL is basically the World cup minus minnows. I would obviously rather watch the world cup because its happens less often and it is a global spectacle. But thers is no denying the quality of football in the CL is far higher than watching Saudi Arabia v Honduras or other such matchups.

Really? What do you call Porto, Lyon, Schalke and Tottenham? What are they doing in the final 16?

Ohsee,

I was shaking my head on that one oooo! But supporters of those clubs go Lynch you. Trust me. Why you no include Arsenal?

For me, I think the ECL certainly matches the WC in the best players on display. However, it can never match the WC on the value of the WC in terms of how much joy it brings to large number of nationalistic fans across the world and how it holds the entire globe spell bound. That will never be matched except if the ECL is re-conceptualized.

Oga Enugu II, shhhhhhh, not so loud now. You know say Arsenal na my team since childhood, so I no fit include them. It's a secret, so don't tell anybody.