Qatar World Cup 2022: the great teams left out of the World Cup

The Qatar World Cup 2022 is preparing for the last race with 32 teams, as the 48-team system will begin to be implemented in the United States, Mexico and Canada 2026.

With this qualification scheme in place since France 1998, which has increased the number of places up for grabs by eight to date, there are several famous teams that have been left without a chance to participate in the tournament.

In Russia 2018, the main absences were marked by the United States, the Netherlands, Chile and Italy. Although the first two sealed their participation in the Qatar World Cupthe Chileans like the Italians will miss the World Cup for the second consecutive edition.

Major absences in Qatar 2022: Colombia

Another conspicuous absence in Qatar will be that of Colombia, who was looking to match his all-time record of three consecutive tournament appearances. Although he has always remained in the qualifying positions during the South American qualifiers, the six consecutive winless dates, including the defeat against Peru, have permanently removed him from the top positions.

Those then led by Reinaldo Rueda have reached the last appointment with the possibility of entering the playoff area in the event that Peru does not win the game. Despite the 1-0 away win against Venezuela, the Peruvians’ victory over Paraguay closed their chances of getting into Qatar World Cup.

In turn, lower tier teams have also been excluded, but they have world figures such as Erling Haaland and Martin Odegaard with Norway, Mohamed Salah with Egypt and Zlatan Ibrahimović with Sweden.

Major absences in Qatar 2022: Italy

The absence of Italyfour-time World Cup champion (1934, 1938, 1982 and 2006), he is the most significant ahead of the start of the World Cup, especially considering the context of his elimination.

The surprise draw against Northern Ireland in the final round of Group C of the UEFA Qualifiers and Switzerland’s 4-0 win over Bulgaria brought Roberto Mancini’s side to the playoffs.

After the draw, Italy He faced Macedonia in the first round of key 3, which he shared with Portugal and Turkey. When everyone was predicting an exciting match between Italians and Portuguese for World Cup qualification, Macedonia’s 1-0 win with Aleksandar Trajkovski’s 92nd-minute goal put an end to the Tanos’ dream.

Before the playoffs, the Italians positioned themselves as broad candidates for qualification, especially considering the present of the team: Euro 2020 champion (they shared a group with Switzerland, which would later win group C of the UEFA Qualifiers).

In turn, those led by Mancini have reached an all-time record of unbeaten consecutive matches with a national team, with 37 unbeaten games between October 2018 and October 2021.

At the moment, the only team with a chance to break the record is Argentina, which have so far remained unbeaten in 33 games and must not lose in the last two friendlies and in the three games of Group C of the Qatar World Cup to break the current record.

Major absences in Qatar 2022: Chile

Despite having barely participated in three of the last 10 editions of the World Cup, his presence in South Africa 2010 and Brazil 2014, plus the Copa Americas won in 2015 and 2016 against the Argentine national team positioned kilos as one of the best candidates to qualify for the Qatar World Cup.

The erratic campaign in the South American qualifiers led the Chileans to reach the last round against Uruguay with very little mathematical chance of qualification. After the 2-0 home defeat against Uruguay, added to the victories of Colombia and Peru, kilos He finished in 7th position.

In total, he scored 19 points in 18 games played, the product of just five wins, four draws and nine losses.

in any case, the Chilean Football Federation (FFCH) tried to obtain the desktop classification by claiming before FIFA the lack of inclusion of the Ecuadorian footballer Byron Castillo, accused of having falsified documents to obtain Ecuadorian nationality.

This would imply that Ecuador loses points in the eight games played by Castillo and, therefore, does not qualify for the World Cup, in addition to kilos have the opportunity to join the list of South American teams in which they will participate Qatar 2022.

However, FIFA rejected the request sent by the FFCH and confirmed Ecuador’s participation Qatar World Cupin which he will debut against the hosts on Wednesday 21 November from 13:00 (Argentine time).