South American football, the beloved South American football.

They have attractive leagues, passionate fans, world-class talents and the best pre-world Cup eliminations in the world.

Without a doubt.

The road to Qatar 2022 has already begun; the different teams put together their teams, start (or strengthen) projects and seek to achieve the goal: to qualify for the World Cup.

Beyond the powers Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Chile and others, Colombia is a selection that has the best generation in its history. The post-Pekerman project will have all the spotlight on it.

But that is not all…

Is anyone else afraid of the Paraguayan team of Juan Carlos Osorio?

If that is the case, I invite you to review the first call of Paraguay with the former Technical Director of Mexico. It’s caviar.

They brought together a generation that has a Qatar label. Eye to them.

We do not forget Peru!

The Peruvian team of a renewed Ricardo Gareca went to the World Cup and is preparing to continue attending during the next editions.

Nationalization of young people, selection of sparring, international scouting.

They are doing everything right, but everything.

And what about “the others”?

Ecuador, Bolivia, and Venezuela.

Well, let’s go by parts.

While national teams as Argentina -with Scaloni- work with a generation of relief as promising as talented, Ecuador does not have a generation to relieve the current one.

They seem to be stagnant. And its federation is a disaster too.

However, they play at height. Huge advantage to harvest some valuable points.

Bolivia has started a medium / long term project with César Farías. Although his generation is not so talented, a development hardly begins. It does not look bad.

Venezuela is known, among a lot of other things, for taking several years with lower selections full of talent. This still continues, but the protagonists of the world cups are already old enough to play in the first team.

Rafael Dudamel has given continuity to young people. And to others who do not deserve to be called never again.

With better or worse projects, you expect some good qualifiers as … as … as always.

There is still no rival.