I propose to organize 2-4 additional friendly matches for national teams before the start of the qualifying games at the World Championships (start voting for the team manager immediately after the start of the season; make an additional opportunity for the manager of each National team to choose their own opponent for a friendly match).
In my opinion, this will allow each NT manager to test their ideas and capabilities of their teams before the start of the “combat” mode.
Actually, I'll have a word with dev about this one.
Maybe something like this could be arranged for the next World Cup cycle...
if you can talk to the administrators, tell them to advertise te game, because we are staying whit fewer players. I love this game and sadly I see it fall slowly.