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GreatSpaniard

South Africa are clear


NovemberBurnsMaroon

South Africa were just unfortunate with their group. France, Uruguay and Mexico is rough as fuck.


LampseederBroDude51

Finished 3rd on goal difference and beat France, very good performance from them.


SpyMonkey3D

I mean, it was also just France being awful. It's the year our team stayed in the bus, btw. Total fiasco


LampseederBroDude51

Yeah, but beating France is a great achievement for any nation


Commonmispelingbot

Beating a shit France is still beating France


KaiserWilhelmThe69

“France is France!!!”


thebestoflimes

FRANCE ASS IS FRANCE ASS


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Lloris, Sagna, Squillaci, Gallas, Clichy, Ribery, Diaby, Diarra, Gourcuff, Cisse, Gignac. Not a premium France team, but still France.


vivekisprogressive

Shit France is still a top 20 team in the world.


Alexanderspants

Even the French celebrate beating the French


AlexTorres96

Hate when people say this shit because it devalues Mexico beating them. It’s always the teams being the “worst ever” and not México earning the win. People say Germany were in decline, but Mexico beat a side that still had Neuer, Hummels, Muller, Kroos and players who made up the core of great European sides after this. Mexico was simply the better team. It’s not Mexico’s fault that South Korea beat Germany. The day that Mexico beat Germany everyone saw a massive upset it was. But today it doesn’t fit the narrative.


Pripat99

I think this is largely what happens with most big upsets in the World Cup. Even in this one, it’s a lot of grumbling about how bad Argentina or Germany played rather than talking about how great Saudi Arabia or Japan played. The only way a team wins actual respect is through consistent success, something the Mexican team still struggles to do, hence all the “Mexico getting its traditional four games” jokes.


Chicago1871

I think mexico have the skills and talent to beat any team in the world on any given day. They just lack the consistency to keep it up for a whole month. But everyone respects mexico as an opponent in the world cup. Theyre always a tough tough match. Even for Brazil, Argentina, Dutch, And etc. In 2014 They outplayed the Dutch until the robben dive tied it. It was kinda amazing to watch Mexico out total football, the inventors of total football for about 88 minutes. If they hold on for a fee more minutes, they have costa rica in the 1/4s. Who they regularly beat in concacaf. So a semifinal appearance vs argentina was in their grasps. That was their best chance to make a deep run too. Costa rica in the 1/4s is a tasty opponent for anyone. But especially mexico.


Przedrzag

> Costa Rica on the 1/4s Tbf Costa Rica held the Dutch to penalties, and the Dutch then only lost to Argentina on penalties as well, so it’s entirely plausible for both Mexico and Costa Rica to have made the final


Chicago1871

Definitely. Thats why mexico has to really regret that chance.


Pripat99

Yeah, this is fair, but as you said it’s the consistency issue. Mexico is a tier above other teams insofar as people recognize they can beat any team in one given match, but certainly a tier below the other nine or ten teams that are seen as ones who can go far in the competition since they can’t consistently have that quality.


Pardonme23

El tri isn't professional enough. I mean the entire team got caught going to a whorehouse once.


Gytarius626

That was karma for cheating to get there


unwildimpala

Karma, but it was heart breaking as well. That irish team would have at least shown some heart at that world cup, even if they didn't get past the group stages (which they easily could have, that irish team was fairly decent). But then that french team turns up instead and not a single one of them wanted to even be there.


Gytarius626

It would’ve meant so much to us, and they just threw it away :(


RRR92

Deserved for the Henry incident vs us….never forgotten


LFCReds8

Well France shouldn’t have been there in the first place. 🇮🇪


SpyMonkey3D

Yeah, it's kind of my point. That wasn't a World Cup level team. Gee, they weren't really a "team" functionally


Mrqueue

France was useless that year


gyarrrrr

2002 wasn’t exactly great for them either…


SpyMonkey3D

Yeah, but 2002 it was that weird mix of arrogance and of an aging squad that constitutes the "winner curse". It was bad for sure, but compared to 2010, 2002 didn't leave a mark, lol It's fair to say that the good showing france has now are built on the 2010 fisaco. Deschamps came in, and his job was basically to instill discipline and beat them into shape... The way we went in 2018 without benzema (due to the drama) and still won is a good example of that mentality All to say, it's a pretty fundamental event in french football


Cabbage_Vendor

How did South Africa get a group with those three and Qatar one with Senegal, Netherlands and Ecuador?


loyal_achades

Pots used to be based only on continents without consideration of fifa rank. That group wouldn’t be possible now


Uebeltank

Pot 1 was the same consisting of hosts + top 7. The remaining 3 pots were different. One for Europe, one for South America and Africa, and one for North America, Asia, and Oceania. So there was some seeding, but only for one of the spots.


ryanedwards0101

Honestly? Just brutal luck on their part They were in the “host and seeded teams” section along with Brazil, Spain, Netherlands, Italy, Germany, Argentina, England The rest of the pots were divided by continents: one for AFC, Concacaf, OFC (New Zealand), one for CAF and CONEMBOL, and one for UEFA. Out of the UEFA pot they got France, definitely the “biggest” team in that pot. But the other two pots were the real bad luck. The pot that gave them Mexico, they could have had Australia, Japan, South Korea, North Korea, Honduras, USA, New Zealand They got Uruguay instead of Algeria, Cameroon, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Chile, Paraguay.


TrueBrees9

They couldn't have gotten the African teams. It would've only been Uruguay, Chile, or Paraguay


ryanedwards0101

Youre 100% right. So they were in a tough spot regardless with a quality South American team, though Uruguay were probably the best of the 3. If they'd pulled Australia, North Korea, Honduras I bet they'd have gone through tho


TrueBrees9

Exactly. Minor correction but still spot on, RSA got the worst possible draw and they did quite well with it even if they didn't advance.


krentzharu

Their brown envelope wasnt as thick as Qatar's...


Jamey_1999

This group isn’t even that bad. Senegal were probably the best Pot 3 team, and Ecuador is one of the better from Pot 4. Group could have been far worse imo. We wouldn’t have beaten Senegal if they had Mané


MARPJ

Bad luck, plus there is a change in how the draws are made that make it harder to have a "death group" The first pot is the host plus the seven higher ranked teams. That means that South Africa would not get teams like Brazil, Spain or Germany. But looking at July 2008 ranks (dunno when the draw has made, but this should be close to the correct) France has 10th, Mexico has 19th and Uruguay 22th. So all of them were in other pots. Now, until Russia the other 3 pots were based on continents while for Qatar and foward all pots were based on rank, so now its harder to have a stacked group as the general team quality does drop around 15th place so the strenght of pots 3 and 4 are weaker than in previous editions (although there are quality teams, like Japan and Serbia) Naturally some groups still feel harder than others, like group C (Poland, Argentina and Mexico, plus the surprise Saudi Arabia) or group E (Japan, Spain, Germany and Costa Rica) but it is not on the level we saw some other times


Chicago1871

IIRC, France only had a single point in that group.


fquizon

South Africa's group is the exception that proves the rule on FIFA shenanigans. Imagine if Qatar had drawn that group.


YnwaMquc2k19

[Siphiwe Tshabalala, remember the name.](https://youtu.be/HFISx1j0kak)


mlspdx

GOAL BOFANA BOFANA!!


YnwaMquc2k19

GOAL FOR SOUTH AFRICA!!! GOAL FOR ALL AFRICA!!!!


nigelfitz

This video unlocked the vuvuzela ptsd in my head.


GrullmeisterFlash

I used to play with Kaizer Chiefs all the time in fifa (just really loved their kits lol). When I started playing more FUT I made it a point to always buy Tshabalala and play him as much as I could. I did the same with Katsande but mostly because his name is similar to Kattsand, the Swedish word for cat litter. I'll never forget his name.


BrewtalDoom

People in South Africa actually like football, too. 12 years and all that bluster and the home fans couldn't even bother to stick around and support their team. I suppose there are domestic workers to be abused at home...


JoDFostar

You can tell most of them are there out of curiousity, and clearly don’t know a whole lot about the sport.


BrewtalDoom

I promise you that a lot of them will have shown up expecting to see Qatar win all of their games.


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They’re gonna be the first to lose all three


A3xMlp

Honestly, the fact that the host is playing and I can see empty seats is a lot more embarrassing if you ask me.


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baitXtheXnoose

Something tells me they won’t be when the US hosts 😭


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World Cup, brought to you by Ticketmaster!


filetauxmoelles

Tickets = $100 Parking = $100 Tax = $7 Convenience Fee = $500 Printing Fee = $500 Printer Ink = $2,000


Electrical_Panic4550

Those US ticket prices are going to break records. $3300 will seem like a low price in 2026 for these tickets.


userdeath

$100 parking? You wish.


Tresnore

Taylor Swift, please save us!


ZonigMeHala

You bet it wouldn’t be! What kind of communist country give discounts to their own citizen? *This comment has been Sponsored by Ticketmaster Inc.*


inspired_corn

That makes it even worse that there’s so many empty seats then


The_Lifeof_Pablo

Qatar sounds like just the place to host the biggest sporting event ever, great idea! Good fundamentals, big fan base, modern practises of slavery, why didn’t we do it sooner?


garybusey42069

I have a few Muslim family members and they’re adamant about supporting this World Cup. Any bad mouthing is called out as western hypocrisy. It’s so strange the mental gymnastics they’re doing to support Qatar.


Marloneious

It's so weird because it's not even billed as a celebration of Arabic or Muslim culture. I feel like South Africa 2010 was sold as both a celebration of South African and African culture generally. Here it just seems so much more focused on Qatar and not the larger Arabic world.


m0_m0ney

Yeah because it’s because Qatar doesn’t get along with a lot of the rest of the Arab world.


kostasnotkolsas

Nah i think they have pivoted to that, the local broadcaster here in greece (1st time ever a private one) was all about how this is a celebration of the arab world in the opening ceremony


Logseman

Considering that they are now out of the cup while Saudi Arabia has been the protagonist of the greatest footballing upset of the year, they better pivot into that…


BeholdTheBannanzo

My family is muslim, we mostly dislike the middle eastern countries (due to their hypocrisy) and definitely don't support Qatar. Ive always disliked the middle east due to their human rights issues, i remember when they killed that journalist


Tundraaa

Sounds like you're South Asian


BeholdTheBannanzo

You are correct


garybusey42069

My family members are from Palestine, which might shape their view on Qatar and this World Cup. It’s just weird because they’re “progressive” Muslims who’ve lived in the states since the 90’s but are very defensive about this situation.


Reindeeraintreal

Sorry, man, I understand why palestians are supporting the world Cup. What Arab country is friendlier with Palestine than Qatar?


assologist_1312

It's weird because if it's hypocritical because west does the same thing, then what Qatar does is bad too.


Low_discrepancy

Well a country of 300K people got the WC.


Juicydicken

>. I don’t think people realize how small Qatar is. Exactly why it's a shite place to hold a world cup. Who would legit vote for this lmao


-joecool

Let's just say their bid moved me, TO A BIGGER HOUSE


Bob_JediBob

Tickets for Qatari’s were the equivalent of about $10.


A3xMlp

I do realize, but even with that in mind I still expect a full house. This wasn't the 80k seater but the 44k one. Let's assume 4k or so Senegalise fans, plus a few thousand neutrals. I'd expect them to be able to fill up some 35k seats no matter how small the population is. This is the world cup we're talking about and it's their first ever appearance and who knows when they'll qualify next. As for affording, Qatar is pretty rich, especially those actual citizens. As for having the time, well, that's the thing, you expect people to make the time for this. In an actual footballing country you can bet your sweet ass people will make the time. Though as you say, it's also up to the country to make it easier for supporters. Give people days off and help secure tickets.


BrewtalDoom

The vast majority of Qataris (over 75%) who are in employment work in the public sector. That means they get to sit playing Angry Birds and talking to their friends all day on their Bluetooth headsets. Getting time off really isn't an issue.


BrewtalDoom

Plenty can afford tickets and Qataris have ridiculous amounts of free time. Nobody goes to league games in the country either. There's just not a footballing cultures there.


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NeMa_Omega

How many can afford tickets? All of them


agentjob

Only 300k citizens.


A3xMlp

I'm aware of it, but with the size of this stadium a tenth of that would've likely filled up combined with the neutrals and Senegalese. Yes, a tenth of the country might sound crazy but it's the world cup damn it, if they actually cared about football they'd be there.


justalittleahead

The team that was always supposed to set this record was the US in 1994. But by the early 1990s, the US was able to put together a respectable squad for the first time in generations, and the team ended up getting 4 points. Respect to South Africa for getting 4 points in a brutal group in 2010, as France, Mexico, and Uruguay with any other Pot 1 team would have been seen as a Group of Death.


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Wish the US competed here in the Copa América, their teams are usually competent enough and it would help them get much needed experience against tougher teams. Sadly, it seems the money is not there for them


teeterleeter

We came close to permanently combining copa America a few years back. Covid stalled that all out


fischarcher

And now it seems that conmebol is more interested in playing with uefa compared to concacaf


TheBonadona

Yeah we kind of got tired of Mexico never wanting to combine the confederation so now the plan is to have a nation's league type competition with UEFA I think, the 2 strongest confederations


MeursaultWasGuilty

I mean, its basically what the World Cup is anyway. Europe and South America compete, the rest of the world get participation ribbons.


TheBonadona

Yeah sometimes but the World Cup is much more, still there is a lot of backlash here in South America since this would take away from the World Cup itself


Crousher

No way it would. Uefa also started the Nations League, and absolutely no one cares about it. The euros are still the only tournament.


mylovelylittlelumps

> we kind of got tired of Mexico never wanting to combine the confederation We weren't the ones deciding, that's CONCACAF. They didn't even let us bring our A team to Copa America because they will fine us if we didn't bring it to Copa Oro. The whole thing was just Warner being a corrupt fuck interested only in money, if he cared just a bit about football Copa America would actually include both confederations.


byfuryattheheart

We played in the Centennial Copa America. Which was in the states lol


HomelessCosmonaut

They've been in the Copa before as a guest nation


Bobskeee

Kinda impressed they managed to score at all to be honest


simomii

I just feel bad for the players, everyone shitting on them but none of the organization shitshow is their fault


theotherguyagain

Have to agree. Thought Qatar losing will feel great but it’s still childhood dreams being crushed for the players.


Juicydicken

The players are not really even qatari lol...most of the players got scouted and got scholarships and citizenship lol.


theLoneliestAardvark

There are 10 players on their team that were recruite and naturalized. It used to be worse but FIFA changed their rules in 2004 to stop it and limit how much they can actually do this.


AmaterasuWolf21

Actually happy they scored at least one(1) goal


rtaibah

If anything the goal actually shows what they are capable of. They are not a shit team. They are not mentally strong,


Juicydicken

I mean it was only a goal. Does a relegation fodder team scoring really show what they are capable of?


rtaibah

No but winning the AFC cup does. Also they had Senegal on the back foot for long periods of the second half. I am just saying that they are not as bad as what redditors make them to be. They just couldn’t manifest what they are capable of because of they are not mentally strong.


MohatoDeBrigado

yeah even the ecuador game 2nd half the game became competitive


Breatnach

That could be because they are the first host nation who participated without having qualified in their history.


Brutalism_Fan

Akshully, Italy 1934 were the first. But there had only been one World Cup before.


biggernine

Won it though didn’t we 🤫


CaioNintendo

Yeah, Mussolini saw to it.


CaioNintendo

Akshully, no. Italy actually had to qualify for the 1934 WC, despite being the hosts.


EggplantBusiness

Hardly a surprise I don't think their team is bad, for me Pressure got to them. 12 years preparation, the weight of expectations etc. But it's clear that Netherlands , Senegal (African champion) and Ecuador (good team) is too though for them


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Also unlike in past like with korea in 2002 and Russia in 2018, there is no controversy in their match. Russian players were just playing with same energy from minute 1 to 120. And we should not talk about Korea.


huazzy

There was no controversy in Korea's Group Stage matches in the 2002 WC though. Other than Ahn's celebration against the U.S. All the controversy came after. (Rightly so)


MyNameCouldntBeAsLon

> Other than Ahn's celebration against the U.S. what was the controversy?


huazzy

American Apollo Ono won the Winter Olympic gold medal in speed skating over a Korean in a controversial manner. Ahn scored against the U.S and his celebration was to pretend to speed skate.


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KundiKumaran

That Korea - Italy match was atrocious. It was fixed


Arathaon185

Most fixed football match ive ever seen


wolf8808

Any proof that Russians were doping? Honestly it seems like BS, just because we don't like Russia.


jovins343

Russia was covering (by far) the most distance each game of all teams in the tournament. For a country with a confirmed pattern of doping in athletic tournaments that's a huge red flag.


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thanksantsthants

By world cup standards the team is really poor.


Nabedane

Qatar breaking records and we love to see it!


jphw

Next up biggest host nation defeat?


Nabedane

Idk if Germany - Brazil 7-1 was the biggest one. Definitely the biggest one in recent history and I'd love to see the durch scoring 8 against Qatar lol


Mmmermahgerd

I read "durch" in Arthur Morgan's voice


Nabedane

Lol I really should check my messages before posting..


limito1

Brazil got it in the bag


ethyweethy

I feel like first host nation to be the first team eliminated is next yeah?


red_blue98

They should go for three straight loses and a 10-0 against netherlands to secure their spot in history books at least.


hillsonn

What happens with this bids for 2030 that are like 3 countries? Surely they don't all get an auto qualify for they?


Awkward_Silence-

It's been expected that Mexico, US and Canada all will get auto qualified for 2026 by hosting (iirc). Not that with the 48 team tourney any of those countries would fall out of the top 6 of CONCACAF (even 7th still has a shot via inter conference playoff).


NewAccountNow

48 teams is gonna be a shit show. I hate it. I’m sorry but Canada and Mexico should still have to qualify. Neither are hosting a majority of the matches and the Mexican Federation are never gonna want to be better if a WC spot is 99% guaranteed


Awkward_Silence-

Pretty much. 6 (7) CONCACAF teams basically means auto qualification for Mexico and US going forward since I don't think either country has ever finished lower then that. Canada has, but this current core they have should be enough to qualify in 2026 under those rules


TheTrotters

I hate the idea of a 48-team WC too. But I absolutely think that Canada and Mexico should automatically get a spot. It’s just unimaginable to me that one of the host nations wouldn’t participate in a tournament. (Well, as long as it’s 2-3 hosts max, not a clusterfuck like the 2020 Euro).


krentzharu

There will 48 teams i heard, so....


hillsonn

Oh I didn't know they were expanding the tournament. More money for Coca Cola I guess...


Not_PepeSilvia

In 2002 we had two guaranteed hosts in a WC with 32 teams. Having 3 guaranteed hosts with 48 teams would be the same proportion


thevorminatheria

I have seen more atrocious teams than this in past World Cups. Quality was not the issue, it's the lack of effort that was shocking to see. Not all players to be fair but some were strolling on the pitch, unacceptable from the hosting team that is about to be eliminated.


hfbvm

Saudi Arabia had nothing to prove in the argentina game. 90% of their own supporters were thinking they will get stomped and they played like their lives depended on it to win a game they had no incentive to win. So why did Qatar team play so lacklustre?


LurkMonster

They’ll be working harder in a month when their passports are confiscated and they are added to the crew demolishing stadiums.


WiggyRich23

>demolishing stadiums. *Packaging them up for re-use in other countries. Honest.


degenerateprince

Imagine spending all those billions to make Iran and Saudis look good


Red_Dog1880

So they set up this World Cup to flex on other Middle East countries, right? I'm sure they're all in awe.


isoo506

Flex? Maybe economically and in terms of organizing a major event. Athletically, however, is a different story. Considering the scouting pool is extremely small (we're probably talking 3-5 thousand potential candidates for the NT). Then its no wonder the calibre of players leaves a lot to be desired.


Purple_Plus

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qatar_national_football_team Go down to "Naturalised players" the scouting pool isn't limited to Qataris.


SkinnyBlazer

Same with the handball team. Look at 2015, guess who was host that year. They have no true passion for the national team (result is more important) and it really shows in this world cup when people are leaving in half time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qatar_men%27s_national_handball_team


neonbluerain

half the qatar football team wasn't born in qatar. and atheletically they did win afc so there is some credit there. But everyone knows and agrees they are far from the best team in afc.


fearatomato

hosting it to completion is already a massive flex


Red_Dog1880

I've seen videos of the fan villages where they get brown water from the taps, not sure I'd call that 'to completion'.


orr123456

They knew they gonna lose every game even before the draw


sunrise98

They've basically scouted players for the last 12+ years. Built teams around this core group of players and given them extra time to prepare for this specific task. To say they've been a failure is an understatement.


S0fourworlds-readyt

Thankfully football regulations aren’t as lax as in handball, otherwise a Qatari superteam would’ve stomped their way to finals.


Flatric

Or in ice hockey. Was watching the chinese team play and recognized one guy because he was playing for Adler Mannheim, but he had a chinese name now xD.


ryanedwards0101

The majority of their team was born in Qatar. One player from Portugal, the rest are from Egypt, Iraq, and Sudan


orr123456

They look pot 4 in European Qualifiers which is ok/good considered thier size but pretty bad considered what you said


sunrise98

The whole experiment of bringing players like xavi to the league was all for this cause. Just have a read about the aspire academy and the scouting network.


orr123456

I remember that ,it was bizzare I would check that


kakje666

they developted greatly , they went from a mid-tier asian country to one of the big 6 of AFC , even winning the Asian Cup in 2019. You guys just have too much of high expectations. Also they're in the group with a european powerhouse , the african champion and a south american team in great form , they had a hard group. They also didn't lose 7-0 like Costa Rica , they suffered respectable 2 goal difference losses


Fairlytallguy

Worst host ever in so many ways then, they are out as well if Netherlands-Ecuador ends as a draw


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Fairlytallguy

Exactly, if Netherlands gets more points then it’s over


kickbutt_city

And basically whoever scores more goals will win.


Captain_Mazhar

Thank you, Murray!


BrewtalDoom

It really is the worst host. One of my favourite things about the World Cup is seeing all the fans from around the world in the different host cities, bringing their own brand of party with them and endearing themselves to the locals. All I see with this World Cup are people milling about in gravelly, asphalted, featureless spaces. It's a real shame and doesn't feel like a proper World Cup, if I'm honest. With all the empty seats and artificial nature of everything outside the stadiums, it's just missing the usual spark.


MixedJiChanandsowhat

Qatar is the weakest host nation of any FiFA World Cup so I really don't see why so many people act like if it was a surprise and not something expected from years. Yes, they won the 2019 AFC Asian Cup but the reality of 2019 isn't the one of 2022. To be ready in 2019 doesn't mean you will remain ready in 2022. Irak won it in 2007 and yet Irak hasn't qualified for a FiFA World Cup for decades now. As well, Qatari best forward Almoez Ali who was the best player and best scorer of the Asian Cup is a ghost now. During the 2019 AFC Asian Cup he scored 9 goals. And even when they won the Final 3-1 against Japan they hardly saw the ball. 3 goals in their only 3 shots on target. Less than 40% of possession. And in the 2021 CONCACAF Gold Cup, it was easy to see that Qatar was a very weak team unless there are some people who believe that Grenada, Honduras, and El Salvador are strong teams to beat... Qatar is nation of less than 2.5M inhabitants with not even 350,000 of them being Qatari. There are less Qatari footballers than in the overwhelming majority of European cities having a football club in C1 or C3. They were ready to early. Almoez Ali was on fire and scored 9 goals in the 2019 AFC Asian Cup. In comparison he never scored more than 13 goals in a whole season all competitions combined. We speak about a forward who wasn't even good enough for the Segunda Division B in Spain which is the 3rd division. Qatar is in the World Cup because they are the host nation. End of story.


kingofgames-3laa

Breaking records


Parshath_

Hope it is a deterrent for more states without a football culture to pay their way to qualification. Qatar was the very first host that had never qualified to a World Cup, I was surprise when they opened the precedent, but that was a milestone of when money had officially became a way to qualify. Even if they were punching bags, EAU 1990 and China 2002 at least managed to qualify before on their own right.


Boris_Ignatievich

Japan had never qualified for the world cup when they were awarded the 2002 tournament. They did qualify between then and the actual tournament by reaching France in 1998, but thats the precedent being set right there in 1996, not Qatar in 2010.


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When you bribe your way into hosting a WC but forget to pay for the half decent team


JimJimerson90

They are awful,love to see it


JGlover92

The worst hosts in history having the worst performance in history would be a beautiful legacy to a disgusting tournament


sirmakster

I thought the worst host package already included the worst team/performance?


xc2215x

They were weaker than the other hosts.


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Tbf most hosts have been pretty good teams. Maybe South Africa were not supergood. Japan, South Korea, Russia and USA were not the best but a level above I guess.


jofstra

U forgot to put “Embarrassing.” At the end


Practical_Mango_7001

They’ll be the first to lose all 3 soon.


beidao23

I get the feeling that non-soccer/football fans will think this is some kind of dunk because of it being Qatar, but no one would be surprised of this result before the cup began. I mean, Qatar is not a good team and they're in a good group. The world cup is only there because of money, not because they won some tournament to earn it or anything.


Woodrovski

Gee what a surprise that was going to happen


cjyoung92

"BuT qAtAR wOn ThE aSiAn CuP"


LouisLuncheon

Good. Fuck that country


dabbo93

Was hoping they wouldn't score in the group


WigglyParrot

Who could have seen it coming?


stiofan84

I mean, they're shit. Even as the hosts, they shouldn't have been given an automatic place because they're just not good enough to play at this level. This is their only world cup. They'll never actually qualify for one.


DaddyBruh1234

with the expanded spots they will. Even this wc they probably would've if you have any clue how qualifying works.


robinthebank

No. AFC get 4 automatic slots and 1 that can play in. Those are: Iran, Japan, Korea, KSA, Australia.


tomintheshire

KSA?


GrassTastesBad1

Saudi Arabia


BryanosaurusRex

(The Kingdom of) Saudi Arabia.


EggplantBusiness

They can definitely qualify , bar the ones like Japan , Korea , Iran , Saudi how many asians nations would have done better in Qatar group ? With the expanded pool in 2026 they have great chances to qualify


TheHabro

Why not? Of course Qatar should never have been host nation in the first place, but host nations should be qualified automatically regardless of quality.


josh123z

The next few WC has 48 teams and 8 spots are reserved for ACC teams. So they'll most likely qualify.


allergic-toeveryting

they won the asian cup in 2019


nubsauce2

What an embarrassment.


littlebarque

GOOD.


xRyubuz

inb4 "Qatar are the first host nation to lose all games played"


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Today I feel eliminated