Not every version of the World Cup is complete without great teams. Due to her failure to qualify during the lengthy qualifying campaign as well as the Qatar 2022 edition, fans of the “round witch” will be denied access to some of the ancient teams.
Throughout history, the Brazilian national team has always been present alone; Because he did not miss a single version, while other teams that had previously won the World Cup experienced the bitterness of failure in qualifying many times.
Italy
The absence of the Italian national team at the World Cup in Qatar is the most noticeable and difficult absence not only for the Azzurri fans, but for all football fans, especially since this is the second time in a row – after the World Cup in Russia 2018. The Italian team 18 times took part in the World Cup, of which he missed 3 instances, in the tournaments of 1930, 1958 and 2018, and the fourth in Qatar. The Italian national team ranks second in the number of World Cup victories, 4 times, on a par with Germany, as it won in 1934, 1938, 1982 and 2006. The Italian national team scored 1726.14 points, finishing sixth in the world. The Italian team could not get to the World Cup in Qatar, although they had two chances. The first after he scorned the top of Group C in favor of Switzerland, knowing that his player Jorginho missed two penalties back and forth against Switzerland, and scoring one of them was enough to bring the Italian back to the World Cup. The Italian national team dealt another blow to their fans by losing in the European play-off semi-final to North Macedonia with a late stoppage-time goal by Aleksandar Trajkovski.
Colombia national team
The Colombian national team is ranked seventeenth in the FIFA rankings with a score of 1611.04 points.
Colombia will miss the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, but have previously participated in the World Cup six times and were knocked out of the group stage three of them (1962-1994-1998).
In the remaining three, Colombia reached the 1/8 finals twice (1990-2018), and its best achievement was reaching the quarter-finals of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. do so by finishing sixth in the center of the Latin American qualifier.
Colombia scored just 23 points from 18 matches, won five matches, drew eight and lost five more, leaving Peru in fifth place.
Peru national team
The Peru national team is in twenty-third place in the FIFA classification and has a score of 1561.01.
A penalty shootout prevented Peru from staying in Qatar after losing to Australia in addition to the international community in a match organized as part of the Ahmed bin Ali World Cup in Al Rayyan on 13 June. Peru played the World Supplement match after finishing fifth in the Latin American qualifiers with 24 points, two points behind fourth placed Ecuador. The Peruvian national team participated in the World Cup 5 times, in four of them they were eliminated from the group stage (1930-1978-1982-2018).
At the 1970 World Cup, Peru reached the quarter-finals, finishing second in a group that included Germany, Bulgaria and Morocco, before losing to Brazil two goals to four.
Sweden national team
The Swedish national team failed to reserve a place at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, and participating for the second time in a row, missed the World Cup for the tenth time, content to appear in 12 copies.
This setback came after Sweden finished second in the second group of the FIFA World Cup qualifiers behind Spain.
Despite playing in the play-offs, the Swedish team did not make up for that setback, beating the Czech Republic in the semi-finals and then losing to Poland with two unanswered goals.
Sweden’s best achievement was second place in the 1958 World Cup after losing the final 5–2 to Brazil. It also placed third twice in the 1950 and 1994 World Cups and fourth place once in the 1938 World Cup. Sweden is in 25th place in the FIFA World Rankings with a score of 1553.33 points.
national team of Ukraine
Ukraine ranks 27th in the world ranking with a score of 1536.99 points.
The Ukrainian national team scored only 12 points in the European qualification for the World Cup, which allowed it to come second after France in Group D and reach the European playoffs.
In the semi-finals, Ukraine beat Scotland 3-1, but lost the last match to Wales, after mistakenly scoring striker Andriy Yarmolenko into his own net.
And the Ukrainian team enjoyed an orphan participation in the World Cup, and it was the World Cup in Germany in 2006, where they achieved great results, given that this was the first experience of the World Cup, reaching the quarterfinals.
The Ukrainian national team started the World Cup in Germany with a heavy defeat from Spain with a score of 0:4, after which they restored the balance at the expense of Saudi Arabia and Tunisia.
