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wait you mean they won’t be at the World
Cup this summer welcome to watchmojo.com
and today we’ll be counting down the top
five nations that failed to qualify for
the 2018 World Cup before we begin we
publish new content every day so be sure
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bell to get notified about our latest
videos for this list will be considering
any countries that were figured to be a
shoo-in for the World Cup 2018 in Russia
but will not be taking any part in the
tournament whether they are a former
champion that made a colossal mistake or
an underperforming nation that was just
picked by a lesser fancy team they are
all in contention here number five
Cameroon the African team with the most
World Cup appearances must have been
shocked at their failure to qualify for
the 2018 edition of the tournament after
the endowment of the Lions were somewhat
unlikely champions of the 2017 African
Cup of Nations they managed to win only
once in a qualifying group consisting of
themselves of course Zambia Algeria and
the table topping Nigeria in fact it was
Nigeria who officially dashed Cameroon’s
hopes of qualification after a 1-1 draw
in yaoundé left Cameroon with just three
points from four matches certainly an
anticlimactic follow-up in fortunes for
the African champions number four
Netherlands oh the Netherlands what has
gone wrong with the charismatic Louie
Valhalla leaving the Dutch national team
post after the 2014 World Cup the
failure to qualify for Euro 2016 was
seen as a one-off
however the Iranian army followed up
that failure with another one failing to
qualify for two consecutive major
tournaments for the first time since
1980 although they finished level on
points with Sweden in their
qualification group they missed out on
the World Cup playoff due to an inferior
goal defense considering the Dutch were
World Cup finalists in 2010 and semi
finalists in 2014
don’t be surprised if mass restructuring
is around the corner for this former
footballing power number three she lay
another continental champion that won’t
be making a World Cup 2018 appearance
Chile followed up their back-to-back
Copa America titles with a weak South
American qualification campaign despite
winning eight matches more than the
three teams ahead of them in the
standings Chile’s defensive issues came
back to bite them using as many matches
as they’d won needing just four points
from two matches against
why and Bolivia Chile failed to win each
losing to Bolivia away for the first
time since 2000 the final nail in the
coffin was a three no loss to Brazil
thus condemning Alexis Sanchez Arturo
Vidal and co2 watching the 2018 World
Cup from their couches number two
USA ranked within the top 30 teams in
the world according to FIFA at the time
and having qualified for seven
consecutive World Cup tournaments the
USA found themselves needing just a
single point against the 99th ranked
trinidad and tobago however losing 2-1
to a weakened trinidad and tobago
who were in last place in qualifying
coupled with Honduras as 3-2 victory
over Mexico and Panama defeating Costa
Rica two-to-one meant that the United
States finished in fifth place second
from last and with Honduras taking the
final qualification playoff spot the
failure had a big impact on the nation
as head coach Bruce Arena stepped down
and a new US Soccer Federation president
was elected number one Italy from
champions of the world in 2006 to
failing to qualify just 12 years later
Italy found themselves in a relatively
easy qualification group besides having
to manage the table topping Spain they
stayed on pace with the Spaniards
matching their results throughout the
campaign after playing to a draw in
Turin a turning point in their
qualification story came by a three no
loss in Madrid to Spain and then a draw
with Macedonia having to qualify via the
European playoff route Italy incredibly
lost 1 nil on aggregate to Sweden
meaning the four-time world cup
champions will miss their first
tournament since 1958 thanks for
watching and if you enjoy all things
related to football and be sure to check
out my channel for bone a TV link in the description
wait you mean they won’t be at the World
Cup this summer welcome to watchmojo.com
and today we’ll be counting down the top
five nations that failed to qualify for
the 2018 World Cup before we begin we
publish new content every day so be sure
to subscribe to our Channel and ring the
bell to get notified about our latest
videos for this list will be considering
any countries that were figured to be a
shoo-in for the World Cup 2018 in Russia
but will not be taking any part in the
tournament whether they are a former
champion that made a colossal mistake or
an underperforming nation that was just
picked by a lesser fancy team they are
all in contention here number five
Cameroon the African team with the most
World Cup appearances must have been
shocked at their failure to qualify for
the 2018 edition of the tournament after
the endowment of the Lions were somewhat
unlikely champions of the 2017 African
Cup of Nations they managed to win only
once in a qualifying group consisting of
themselves of course Zambia Algeria and
the table topping Nigeria in fact it was
Nigeria who officially dashed Cameroon’s
hopes of qualification after a 1-1 draw
in yaoundé left Cameroon with just three
points from four matches certainly an
anticlimactic follow-up in fortunes for
the African champions number four
Netherlands oh the Netherlands what has
gone wrong with the charismatic Louie
Valhalla leaving the Dutch national team
post after the 2014 World Cup the
failure to qualify for Euro 2016 was
seen as a one-off
however the Iranian army followed up
that failure with another one failing to
qualify for two consecutive major
tournaments for the first time since
1980 although they finished level on
points with Sweden in their
qualification group they missed out on
the World Cup playoff due to an inferior
goal defense considering the Dutch were
World Cup finalists in 2010 and semi
finalists in 2014
don’t be surprised if mass restructuring
is around the corner for this former
footballing power number three she lay
another continental champion that won’t
be making a World Cup 2018 appearance
Chile followed up their back-to-back
Copa America titles with a weak South
American qualification campaign despite
winning eight matches more than the
three teams ahead of them in the
standings Chile’s defensive issues came
back to bite them using as many matches
as they’d won needing just four points
from two matches against
why and Bolivia Chile failed to win each
losing to Bolivia away for the first
time since 2000 the final nail in the
coffin was a three no loss to Brazil
thus condemning Alexis Sanchez Arturo
Vidal and co2 watching the 2018 World
Cup from their couches number two
USA ranked within the top 30 teams in
the world according to FIFA at the time
and having qualified for seven
consecutive World Cup tournaments the
USA found themselves needing just a
single point against the 99th ranked
trinidad and tobago however losing 2-1
to a weakened trinidad and tobago
who were in last place in qualifying
coupled with Honduras as 3-2 victory
over Mexico and Panama defeating Costa
Rica two-to-one meant that the United
States finished in fifth place second
from last and with Honduras taking the
final qualification playoff spot the
failure had a big impact on the nation
as head coach Bruce Arena stepped down
and a new US Soccer Federation president
was elected number one Italy from
champions of the world in 2006 to
failing to qualify just 12 years later
Italy found themselves in a relatively
easy qualification group besides having
to manage the table topping Spain they
stayed on pace with the Spaniards
matching their results throughout the
campaign after playing to a draw in
Turin a turning point in their
qualification story came by a three no
loss in Madrid to Spain and then a draw
with Macedonia having to qualify via the
European playoff route Italy incredibly
lost 1 nil on aggregate to Sweden
meaning the four-time world cup
champions will miss their first
tournament since 1958 thanks for
watching and if you enjoy all things
related to football and be sure to check
out my channel for bone a TV link in the description
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