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Events that had a realistic possibility of happening in football history.

• USA winning the FIFA World Cup: USA doesn't take football as seriously as other countries but if they took it as seriously as basketball, baseball or Gridiron football, I believe that they could've easily won the FIFA World Cup twice. They were semi-finalists in the first FIFA World Cup in 1930 & beat European Champions, Spain, in the 2009 Confederations Cup. 


• Netherlands winning the World Cup: Netherlands reached the FIFA World Cup Final three times, so it's safe to say that they had a real chance of possibly winning it three times. 


• Catalonia winning the World Cup: If the stars aligned just right & Catalonia separated from Spain around 50 or so years ago, they could've won the World Cup or at least been European Champions. The Spanish team that won the FIFA World Cup as well as Euro 2008 & Euro 2012 was comprised of many notable Catalan players. The player that scored the winning goal in the FIFA World Cup of 2010 was Catalan Andres Iniesta. 


• Morocco winning the World Cup: Morocco could've been the first ever African country to win the World Cup in 2022 when they reached the semifinals. 


• South Africa winning the African Cup of Nations three times: Bafana Bafana was excluded for decades from international football & won AFCON in their first qualification of the tournament. They were AFCON runners-up in 1998 & semi-finalists in 2000. South Africa were one of the original founding members of the Confederation of African Football (CAF). Considering that the best footballers of South Africa came before 1994 i. e. the likes of Jomo Sono, George Dearnaley, Abednigo Ngcobo, Cedric Xulu, Nelson Dladla, Ace Ntsoelengwe etc. This country could've easily been African Champions three times were it not for Apartheid. 
 

• Orlando Pirates being two-time African Champions: Orlando Pirates won the CAF Champions League in 1996 & were finalists in 2013. Because of Apartheid again, no South African team participated in continental tournaments because of a FIFA ban. So other teams in South Africa could've won the Champions' League including Kaizer Chiefs, the AmaZulu F. C. team of 1972 & 1973 among others. But again, Apartheid boycotts prevented South Africa from participating in international sports. 


• Zululand winning AFCON: If South Africa could've won AFCON three times, why couldn't KwaZulu have won AFCON once? Many of the best South African footballers have come from KZN or were Zulu. So again, if fate went differently & KwaZulu never became Natal or joined the Union of South Africa & Apartheid never existed, we could assume Zululand could've won AFCON once in it's history. 
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