The football “soccer”‘s craze has been on this planet from the very beginning of the 19th century. Whether it is Maradona or Messi, Pele or Neymar, Ronaldo or Figo, there always has been someone who finds his ball into the net for their nations. After four catastrophic final goals conceded by Croatia, it was bliss for France as they had their hands on the cup. But who will play this year? Is Cristiano Ronaldo playing this year or are they really disqualified?
Italy & Portugal, in or out?
Italy, the four-time world cup lifters were out of the world cup 2018 as they didn’t qualify. But Portugal, a team which has Euro Cup-2016, its only major trophy had made it to the round of 16 but got eliminated by two goals of Cavani.
Portugal in Group A, with their core potential, Cristiano Ronaldo landed to play against Serbia to get qualified for the World Cup. Whereas Serbia with little hope of winning and getting qualified amazes the world by defeating Portugal. Whereas, Italy just 2 points behind Switzerland fails to top Group C. A team of Donnarumma, Gollini the team which has players like Chelini, Guilangi Buffon played has to now play in the playoffs. And what is more interesting is these Portugal won Euro Cup 2016 and Italy won the 2020’s. And these two teams have to lose their matches to lift another.
Portugal will first play with Turkey and the winning team plays with the winner between the match of Italy and North Macedonia. If Portugal manages to overcome Turkey and Italy to overcome North Macedonia then Italy and Portugal will have to play against each other to set their feet on Qatar. So, yes we will either miss Bruno Fernandes or Chiesa.
Which teams have qualified?
Qatar
The host nation stands at 48 of FIFA men’s ranking and will be a team to have an eye on as it has won the Asia cup.
Germany
The winner of World Cup 2014 is 12th in FIFA ranking. Each and every player in its squad is the best of the bests. Though Germany returned home after their loss to Korea, in the World Cup 2018. Some of the major players of the team are:
- Manuel Neuer
- Toni Kroos
- Kai Havertz
- Thomas Muller, etc
Brazil
Brazil is the host of World Cup 2014 but one after another Brazil had to kill their hopes as Neymar has a serious back injury. And at the semi-finals, Germany separated oil and water out of them as they conceded 7 goals to 1 in their home ground. But killing embarrassments with skills, they won the Olympics 2015 and even made it to the Quater Finals of the World Cup 2018.
Denmark
France
The winner of 2018’s world cup will be setting their hopes to defend their title of “World Champion”. Some of the major players of France are:
- Kylian Mbappe
- Antoine Griezmann
- Karim Benzema
- Paul Pogba
- N’Golo Kante, etc
Belgium
The number one ranked team, in the FIFA ranking that has been attempting to have very titles with full authority has been amongst the best. Some of the major players of Belgium are:
- Eden Hazard
- Romelu Lukaku
- Thibaut Courtois
- Kevin De Bruyne
Croatia
The team was there in Russia until the last day but returned with hopes for the next time. They were defeated by France by 4 goals to 2. Some of the major players of Croatia are:
- Luka Modric
- Ivan Perisic, etc
Argentina
The country of Lionel Messi. No doubts that they will be an epic boom.
Spain
Serbia
England
Switzerland
Netherlands
Iran
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