2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar - UEFA Qualifiers

[tulusikhlas]

FIFA World Cup is the most popular sports event in the plant and if I am not wrong it is even more popular than the Olympics. So these players are getting an opportunity to showcase their skills for the first time in front of billions of people. Especially for smaller teams such as Tunisia, Costa Rica and Cameroon, this is like a once in a lifetime opportunity. If some of the players perform well against some of the top sides, then the clubs will be interested in signing them. I would not count the European teams, because they already have the Euro Cup.   

World cup is the biggest sport tournament in the world for sure. Nothing is even close and nothing can compere to it no matter what anyone says. So many people are watching this and every year there is a new record. Even the people from US are now seeing how big football(soccer) is.

And this is a golden opportunity that they may never have again. They will do everything in their power on the pitch. After all they definitely want to have a career in a big team. The World Cup is one way to promote themselves to the teams they are aiming for. Because I'm sure they must have a dream team in their career.

[Daniel91]

It is a double edged sword. Some people claim that it will increase the number of one-sided matches (although I don't share that opinion). IMO, they should add another round-robin phase after the first round. What about something like this? Out of 48 teams (12 groups), 24 teams proceed to the next round. Now these 24 teams should be divided in to 8 groups, with the top team from each group going to the Quarter-finals. I believe that this is a much more risk-free plan compared to knockout matches starting from the second round.

Wouldn't a competition system with 64 teams and 16 groups be much better?
32 teams would advance to the knockout stage of the competition and we would see even more uncertain and exciting matches at the World Cup.
In this way, even more national teams would qualify for the world championship, so many small national teams would finally get the chance to participate in the world championship.
I don't even need to explain how much this would mean for the popularization of football in many countries of the world.

There is no doubt a good idea but hosting 64 nations is not easy for any country this needs to be more than two or three countries coming at one time and doing things for event like this and with this we can surely increase quality and many countries which are having good skilled players are also able to join and have their best. Soccer popularization is already unanimous because right now FIFA having around 170 members which is amazing and from these just 32 are coming for this mega event is also not easy for many countries with quota system which is currently due to quality and increasing number from 32 to 48 is also not bad at all.

I am feeling if we are going with @Sithara007 which is implementing teams for 48 not bad at all but final decision is coming from FIFA how they will manage this all we have to wait for this until long time as now next world cup is going to play in 2026 in the USA and few other countries as well which is also good idea.

In fact, what you mentioned is already happening and the 2026 World Cup will be held in as many as 3 countries, Canada, USA and Mexico.
I really don't think it would be a problem for those 3 countries to host 64 national teams instead of 48.
European football championships are also increasingly being held in more countries, and this is almost becoming a rule.
I think I read somewhere that FIFA actually has 211 members, so it would be fair to allow more national teams to participate in the World Cup.

[keyscore44]

FIFA World Cup is the most popular sports event in the plant and if I am not wrong it is even more popular than the Olympics. So these players are getting an opportunity to showcase their skills for the first time in front of billions of people. Especially for smaller teams such as Tunisia, Costa Rica and Cameroon, this is like a once in a lifetime opportunity. If some of the players perform well against some of the top sides, then the clubs will be interested in signing them. I would not count the European teams, because they already have the Euro Cup.   

World cup is the biggest sport tournament in the world for sure. Nothing is even close and nothing can compere to it no matter what anyone says. So many people are watching this and every year there is a new record. Even the people from US are now seeing how big football(soccer) is.

And this is a golden opportunity that they may never have again. They will do everything in their power on the pitch. After all they definitely want to have a career in a big team. The World Cup is one way to promote themselves to the teams they are aiming for. Because I'm sure they must have a dream team in their career.

But let me go to another topic. The World Cup is a big platform, like every year, there are many new young players in all the teams. The World Cup is a place for them to compete, I think they can show their talent and take themselves to a much better place. The World Cup is not a formality, it is an event to take world football to a better place.

[Webetcoins]

World cup is the biggest sport tournament in the world for sure. Nothing is even close and nothing can compere to it no matter what anyone says. So many people are watching this and every year there is a new record. Even the people from US are now seeing how big football(soccer) is.

And this is a golden opportunity that they may never have again. They will do everything in their power on the pitch. After all they definitely want to have a career in a big team. The World Cup is one way to promote themselves to the teams they are aiming for. Because I'm sure they must have a dream team in their career.

But let me go to another topic. The World Cup is a big platform, like every year, there are many new young players in all the teams. The World Cup is a place for them to compete, I think they can show their talent and take themselves to a much better place. The World Cup is not a formality, it is an event to take world football to a better place.

Soccer World Cup is prestigious event in this world and every country want to play in this but a good thing we have to select just 32 teams from all globe for this event and these are surely one of the best in this business which is the beauty of this game with this all just quality and skilled players are able to play in this as they deserve this but good thing happening now we have 48 teams which mean more entertainment and better chance for many more countries which is going to be great for this game and future of this game with many new players and youths will be able to have dreams about this which can fulfilled.

FIFA is surely happy to have this all even many allegations and corruption reports are also around with them but still they are doing amazing job and have bright future of this game which is beauty of this game.

[RealMalatesta]

And this is a golden opportunity that they may never have again. They will do everything in their power on the pitch. After all they definitely want to have a career in a big team. The World Cup is one way to promote themselves to the teams they are aiming for. Because I'm sure they must have a dream team in their career.

But let me go to another topic. The World Cup is a big platform, like every year, there are many new young players in all the teams. The World Cup is a place for them to compete, I think they can show their talent and take themselves to a much better place. The World Cup is not a formality, it is an event to take world football to a better place.

I do not think that it is a place where young players could go to showcase their talents, the nations league or whatever it is named would be a much better place to do that. World cup is the place where nations bring their best possible players and most of the time teams that join are good teams as well because they beat others to join, there are a lot of nations that failed to join.

This is why I believe that we will see players who are at the best stages of their career, and not players who are young and have potential. If you are young and already play very well like Haaland then of course you will play.

[alegotardo]

I do not think that it is a place where young players could go to showcase their talents, the nations league or whatever it is named would be a much better place to do that. World cup is the place where nations bring their best possible players and most of the time teams that join are good teams as well because they beat others to join, there are a lot of nations that failed to join.

This is why I believe that we will see players who are at the best stages of their career, and not players who are young and have potential. If you are young and already play very well like Haaland then of course you will play.

I also believe that the World Cup isn't a showcase for new talent.
Talented players who are starting their careers always manage to stand out and attract the attention of big teams even if they are playing in local and less-targeted championships.

Football moves a lot of money and has scouts all over the world, you don't have to get to the FIFA World Cup to be able to stand out.

[nullama]

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I also believe that the World Cup isn't a showcase for new talent.
Talented players who are starting their careers always manage to stand out and attract the attention of big teams even if they are playing in local and less-targeted championships.

Football moves a lot of money and has scouts all over the world, you don't have to get to the FIFA World Cup to be able to stand out.

Of course, but in the eyes of the public in general it's pretty obvious when a player does a great job in the world cup.

Also, scouts have limited capacity, they simply cannot track the performance of every single new player in the entire world.

If someone does great in the world cup, it's almost a guaranteed new hire at a top team soon afterwards.

[Daniel91]

I do not think that it is a place where young players could go to showcase their talents, the nations league or whatever it is named would be a much better place to do that. World cup is the place where nations bring their best possible players and most of the time teams that join are good teams as well because they beat others to join, there are a lot of nations that failed to join.

This is why I believe that we will see players who are at the best stages of their career, and not players who are young and have potential. If you are young and already play very well like Haaland then of course you will play.

I also believe that the World Cup isn't a showcase for new talent.
Talented players who are starting their careers always manage to stand out and attract the attention of big teams even if they are playing in local and less-targeted championships.

Football moves a lot of money and has scouts all over the world, you don't have to get to the FIFA World Cup to be able to stand out.

The best teams in the world actually have their own agents who travel the world in search of new football talents. All the big clubs do it.
Therefore, it is unlikely that a good young player will not be noticed by a serious European club.
However, the world championship is the biggest stage in the world and players who manage to show their talent and quality there will increase their chances of being transferred to a better European club and get a higher salary.

[Bhig Daddy]

The fifa 2022 World Cup will be full of anxiety, passion, class, and so much more, well the world has always been a very interesting tournament if not the best. The atmosphere in Qatar will be so nice and from the preparations so far I think the tournament will make a lot of sense. Some big countries couldn’t make it through the qualification but that the interesting thing about the World Cup and some under dog countries will put in a big surprise and I just can’t wait for it to all start. It going to be very big in Qatar this year.

[Webetcoins]

I do not think that it is a place where young players could go to showcase their talents, the nations league or whatever it is named would be a much better place to do that. World cup is the place where nations bring their best possible players and most of the time teams that join are good teams as well because they beat others to join, there are a lot of nations that failed to join.

This is why I believe that we will see players who are at the best stages of their career, and not players who are young and have potential. If you are young and already play very well like Haaland then of course you will play.

I also believe that the World Cup isn't a showcase for new talent.
Talented players who are starting their careers always manage to stand out and attract the attention of big teams even if they are playing in local and less-targeted championships.

Football moves a lot of money and has scouts all over the world, you don't have to get to the FIFA World Cup to be able to stand out.

Even we have mostly quality players from big countries but still a platform for many players those are not able to have better sources of things for giving their best and intention from big clubs in UEFA they can achieve something better which helps them for having quality club and good salaries we have too many examples even mostly players are not able to perform as they were expected but good for them and their countries to be highlighted.

I also agree with this statement that mostly big UEFA clubs have their agents which are working for them and giving them good players which are in their early days and have quality and skills for giving their best in future many examples are already, and they have done amazing jobs with the brightest careers like Ronaldo from Brazil and now Haaland from Norway as well.

[crunck]

I do not think that it is a place where young players could go to showcase their talents, the nations league or whatever it is named would be a much better place to do that. World cup is the place where nations bring their best possible players and most of the time teams that join are good teams as well because they beat others to join, there are a lot of nations that failed to join.
This is why I believe that we will see players who are at the best stages of their career, and not players who are young and have potential. If you are young and already play very well like Haaland then of course you will play.

I also believe that the World Cup isn't a showcase for new talent.
Talented players who are starting their careers always manage to stand out and attract the attention of big teams even if they are playing in local and less-targeted championships.
Football moves a lot of money and has scouts all over the world, you don't have to get to the FIFA World Cup to be able to stand out.

Even we have mostly quality players from big countries but still a platform for many players those are not able to have better sources of things for giving their best and intention from big clubs in UEFA they can achieve something better which helps them for having quality club and good salaries we have too many examples even mostly players are not able to perform as they were expected but good for them and their countries to be highlighted.
I also agree with this statement that mostly big UEFA clubs have their agents which are working for them and giving them good players which are in their early days and have quality and skills for giving their best in future many examples are already, and they have done amazing jobs with the brightest careers like Ronaldo from Brazil and now Haaland from Norway as well.

If young and new players want to showcase their talent, they have a lot of other places to do that. A world cup is not a tournament in which any team would like to experiment. Every time goes into the world cup thinking about winning the precious trophy. Club football is the place where young players have the most chance of showing off what they can do. But that does not win there is no space for young and rising players to show the talent that they have in the world cup. After all, it is the world cup and if anyone can show good performance he will be able to make a lot of big clubs interested in him.

[Sithara007]

If young and new players want to showcase their talent, they have a lot of other places to do that. A world cup is not a tournament in which any team would like to experiment. Every time goes into the world cup thinking about winning the precious trophy. Club football is the place where young players have the most chance of showing off what they can do. But that does not win there is no space for young and rising players to show the talent that they have in the world cup. After all, it is the world cup and if anyone can show good performance he will be able to make a lot of big clubs interested in him.

LOL.. you can't compare world cup to any other platform. Club football is popular only within a specific country. There are a very few leagues (such as the EPL and Serie A) which have a global audience. But even they can't be compared to the huge audience pool for the FIFA World Cup. But that doesn't mean that younger players with zero international experience can be directly drafted in to the world cup squad. Most of the smaller countries will get three matches to showcase their skills in the group stage. And they need to decide whether they want experienced players, younger ones, or a mixture of both.

[nullama]

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LOL.. you can't compare world cup to any other platform. Club football is popular only within a specific country. There are a very few leagues (such as the EPL and Serie A) which have a global audience. But even they can't be compared to the huge audience pool for the FIFA World Cup. But that doesn't mean that younger players with zero international experience can be directly drafted in to the world cup squad. Most of the smaller countries will get three matches to showcase their skills in the group stage. And they need to decide whether they want experienced players, younger ones, or a mixture of both.

Yeah, absolutely.

The world cup is the biggest event on Earth. Anyone that has an excellent performance in the world cup will have scouts contacting him for the rest of the year, plus they will be on the media non-stop.

Club football is the day to day work for footballers, but the World Cup is an exceptional time to showcase what they can do. Also, they only need to be extremely good in a couple of matches to earn a reputation in the world cup, whereas at club football they need to be way more consistent to be exceptional.

[W Jr.]

I do not think that it is a place where young players could go to showcase their talents, the nations league or whatever it is named would be a much better place to do that. World cup is the place where nations bring their best possible players and most of the time teams that join are good teams as well because they beat others to join, there are a lot of nations that failed to join.

This is why I believe that we will see players who are at the best stages of their career, and not players who are young and have potential. If you are young and already play very well like Haaland then of course you will play.

I also believe that the World Cup isn't a showcase for new talent.
Talented players who are starting their careers always manage to stand out and attract the attention of big teams even if they are playing in local and less-targeted championships.

Football moves a lot of money and has scouts all over the world, you don't have to get to the FIFA World Cup to be able to stand out.

It's yours too, of course, but the World Cup is a tournament where a footballer wants to show his full potential.  One of the most important tournaments in the world. If one of the dreams of footballers right now is to play in UCL, the other is to play in WC. Considering that they represent their country, it would be a good tournament emotionally as well. Many international observers also have the opportunity to observe the players in this tournament. That's why I think WC is a very important tournament for a football player.

[joker_josue]

It seems that Ecuador may not participate in the World Cup. According to the Daily Mail, there are quite compromising documents, which again call into question the possibility of being excluded from the World Cup.

In the audio document, allegedly collected in the interview made in 2018, the player can be heard clearly saying that he was born in 1995 and not in 1998 as appears on his Ecuadorian birth certificate, giving his name as Bayron Javier Castillo Segura and not Byron David Castillo Segura.

INFO: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/sportsnews/article-11203773/Ecuador-face-kicked-World-Cup-new-evidence-Byron-Castillo-Colombian.html

[nullama]

It seems that Ecuador may not participate in the World Cup. According to the Daily Mail, there are quite compromising documents, which again call into question the possibility of being excluded from the World Cup.

In the audio document, allegedly collected in the interview made in 2018, the player can be heard clearly saying that he was born in 1995 and not in 1998 as appears on his Ecuadorian birth certificate, giving his name as Bayron Javier Castillo Segura and not Byron David Castillo Segura.

INFO: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/sportsnews/article-11203773/Ecuador-face-kicked-World-Cup-new-evidence-Byron-Castillo-Colombian.html

Interesting.

I thought that case was already analyzed and closed by FIFA. Here's the report about it, from three months ago: https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/sports/fifa-dismiss-chile-complaint-ecuador-keep-spot-world-cup-2022-06-10/

But it looks like Chile might end up having a surprise qualification at the last minute if this ends up disqualifying Ecuador from the World Cup.

[Sithara007]

It seems that Ecuador may not participate in the World Cup. According to the Daily Mail, there are quite compromising documents, which again call into question the possibility of being excluded from the World Cup.

In the audio document, allegedly collected in the interview made in 2018, the player can be heard clearly saying that he was born in 1995 and not in 1998 as appears on his Ecuadorian birth certificate, giving his name as Bayron Javier Castillo Segura and not Byron David Castillo Segura.

INFO: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/sportsnews/article-11203773/Ecuador-face-kicked-World-Cup-new-evidence-Byron-Castillo-Colombian.html

FIFA has already conducted an enquiry on this and has ruled that Byron Castillo is an Ecuadorian citizen. And as far as I know, whether he was born in Colombia or Ecuador should not matter, in case his Ecuadorian nationality is unchallenged. Naturalized citizens are allowed to participate in the FIFA world cup. I know that Chile football association is trying hard to get Ecuador disqualified. They should be ashamed of themselves. First they can't secure a qualification spot from the CONMEBOL. And now they are trying to get one of the qualified teams suspended.

[nullama]

~snip~
FIFA has already conducted an enquiry on this and has ruled that Byron Castillo is an Ecuadorian citizen. And as far as I know, whether he was born in Colombia or Ecuador should not matter, in case his Ecuadorian nationality is unchallenged. Naturalized citizens are allowed to participate in the FIFA world cup. I know that Chile football association is trying hard to get Ecuador disqualified. They should be ashamed of themselves. First they can't secure a qualification spot from the CONMEBOL. And now they are trying to get one of the qualified teams suspended.

I don't think this is coming from Chile. This is coming from Sportsmail, which I doubt is from that country.

And yes, FIFA already ruled that, but this is an official appeal, which will have an official response in a few days:

The stunning revelation in FIFA's inquiry into the case of Byron Castillo comes days before their Appeals Commission are due to rule on the matter on Thursday, and could alter the identity of Qatar's opponents in the first game of the World Cup and who England will face in the last 16.

I guess we'll have to wait and see:

Castillo has never publicly addressed the issue of his nationality, but has been asked to appear via video link before FIFA's Appeals Commission to answer their questions. It is not known at present whether he intends to attend.

The thing is that apparently he was never naturalized Ecuadorian:

In 2018 a report from the General Director of the Civil Register in Ecuador declared that Castillo's Ecuadorian birth certificate did not exist in its internal records, and concluded it was false.

[Juggy777]

It seems that Ecuador may not participate in the World Cup. According to the Daily Mail, there are quite compromising documents, which again call into question the possibility of being excluded from the World Cup.

In the audio document, allegedly collected in the interview made in 2018, the player can be heard clearly saying that he was born in 1995 and not in 1998 as appears on his Ecuadorian birth certificate, giving his name as Bayron Javier Castillo Segura and not Byron David Castillo Segura.

INFO: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/sportsnews/article-11203773/Ecuador-face-kicked-World-Cup-new-evidence-Byron-Castillo-Colombian.html

FIFA has already conducted an enquiry on this and has ruled that Byron Castillo is an Ecuadorian citizen. And as far as I know, whether he was born in Colombia or Ecuador should not matter, in case his Ecuadorian nationality is unchallenged. Naturalized citizens are allowed to participate in the FIFA world cup. I know that Chile football association is trying hard to get Ecuador disqualified. They should be ashamed of themselves. First they can't secure a qualification spot from the CONMEBOL. And now they are trying to get one of the qualified teams suspended.

I read about this issue and I wonder if this decision by FIFA will allow for Ukraine, or Italy to make a comeback for the World Cup because I’m sure that FIFA would like to replace them. Furthermore I understand that it’s a complicated situation, but I would really like to see Italy back because it’ll make the World Cup more interesting to watch, and what about other's which team would you’ll like to see be recalled back to the World Cup.

[joker_josue]

FIFA has already conducted an enquiry on this and has ruled that Byron Castillo is an Ecuadorian citizen. And as far as I know, whether he was born in Colombia or Ecuador should not matter, in case his Ecuadorian nationality is unchallenged. Naturalized citizens are allowed to participate in the FIFA world cup. I know that Chile football association is trying hard to get Ecuador disqualified. They should be ashamed of themselves. First they can't secure a qualification spot from the CONMEBOL. And now they are trying to get one of the qualified teams suspended.

The problem is not where the player was born and his neutralization in another country. And FIFA accepts neutralized players if he has never played in the A team of another national team. The question here is whether he deceived the authorities and in turn FIFA, this cannot be allowed.

Now, it's still shameful if this is some behind-the-scenes move by other countries. The information made public must be evaluated and a definite decision must be taken, so that this is not always the case.