Why isn't England, the traditional soccer powerhouse, called England in the tournament?

England is geographically unique in that it is made up of multiple islands? combination? into a country, the full name is called ? United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland? , which, when viewed broadly, is as externally unified as any country in the world? The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland but in a narrower sense, their internal workings are quite different. The nation of Great Britain consists primarily of England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland in the northeastern part of the island of Ireland, and each of these four regions has its own? main? , so in many things they are more likely to negotiate with each other than compromise. In soccer, the UK has four major soccer associations, the Football Association of England, the Scottish Football Association, the Welsh Football Association and the Northern Ireland Football Association.

Here we have a similar situation in China, which is divided into mainland China, Hong Kong, China, Hong Kong, China and Taiwan, and all four regions have their own football associations.

So in the formation of the team, are through the soccer association as a unit to convene, which also explains why the United Kingdom will exist in four soccer teams, we also exist in China four soccer teams. Therefore, we often mouth that the national team tournament is actually not rigorous enough, should be the competition between soccer associations, FIFA in the organization of the tournament is only docking soccer associations, and the English Football Association, the Scottish Football Association, the Welsh Football Association and the Northern Ireland Football Association as a member of FIFA's associations, naturally, they also chose their own formation of the team to participate in the, instead of unifying as the ? British National Team? entry.

Of course, the United Kingdom, as the originator of modern soccer, in the early years of the existence of an independent British team, only later by the FIFA recognition to be allowed to be divided into four associations to form a team to participate in the competition, since it can be divided into four teams to compete for the title, why should be synthesized into a team? The advantages of doing so are bound to outweigh the disadvantages as well.

Of course, to achieve better results, it is most important to fundamentally improve the ability of players, rather than dividing into multiple teams.