Hellcrooner wrote:Foye wrote:Arda K wrote:israel was expelled from afc, uefa is the next logical choice. i believe they were trying to qualify from ocenia federation at some point.
kazakhstan is the one that makes no sense, i bet lot of money exchanged behind the scenes during their move.
Turkey makes no sense either. Nobody minds because they can not field a relevant squad, though.
Turkey has part of their territory in europe.
Not to mention deep links into european history, they had a lot of territory in romania and etc not to mention for a good while they were half the capital for the freakin Roman empire.........
True that Erdogan is making it difficult to relate to them as european........but yet.
If the Euros was about a connected history then North Africans would also be apart of it as they relate more to Euro-Mediterraneans than the rest of Africa, but they don't. You play in the continent you're in. Turkey makes sense. Armenia and Azerbaijan on the other hand don't.