Tuesday, October 25, 2016

Everything That You Need to Know about 2018 World Cup Qualification



There are various soccer leagues that you can watch from Champion League to La Liga. The biggest soccer event in the world is definitely the World Cup. The 2018 World Cup will be held in Russia. Just like the previous World Cup, the 2018 World Cup requires countries to follow qualification first. There are many interesting stories from 2018 world Cup qualification.  The 2108 World Cup qualification will determine 31 from 32 soccer teams from all over the world that will have chance to play at the 2018 World Cup in Russia. As the host, Russia will be automatically qualified for 2018 World Cup. There are total of 208 FIFA members that join the qualification. The qualification slot will be drawn in Konstantinovsky Palace, Saint Petersburg at 25 July 2015.


One of the teams that will play in 2018 world Cup is Argentina. Argentina is considered as one of the biggest teams in 2018 World Cup. If we see the previous World Cup events, we will find out that Argentina has really great performance. This team even won two World Cups in 1978 and 1986. No wonder that this team is considered as one of the most successful teams in World Cup history. Besides winning the World Cup, Argentina also became runner up for three times in 1930, 1990, and 2014.

For the upcoming 2018 World Cup qualification, the coach for Argentina, Edgardo Bauza has announced the players who will play for this team in South America zone. Once again, this time there is no Mauro Icardi in the squad. Mauro Icardi is known for his role as striker in Inter Milan. Even though Icardi shows very great performance this season, he still not gets a chance to play for Argentina team in World Cup. Bauza himself doesn’t state his reason of kicking out Icardi from the list of the players for Argentina team. However, Bauza said that he will call Icardi when the time is right. Moreover, Lionel Messi and Gonzalo Higuain are returned in the team.

There are several players who have been called by Bauza in order to play for Argentina in the matches against Bolivia and Brazil. One of the players who is been added to the list is Sergio Romero as goal keeper. Romero is known for his career in Manchester United. Besides Romero, other players who have been called for the goal keeper position are Nahuel Guzman from Tigres and Geronimo Rulli from Real Sociedad. agen bola

Back is one of the most essential positions in the team. There are several names that have been considered for this position including Facundo Roncaglia from Celta, Mateo Musacchio from Villarreal, Ramiro Funes Mori from Everton, Martin Demichelis from Espanyol, Pablo Zabaleta from Manchester City, Gabriel Mercado from Sevilla, Nicolas Otamendi from Manchester City and Emanuel Mas from San Lorenzo.

The midfielders who will join the squad are including Javier Mascherano from Barcelona, Lucas Biglia from Lazio, Guido Pizarro from Tigres, Ever Banega from Inter, Nicolas Gaitan from Atletico Madrid, Angel Di Maria from Paris Saint-Germain, Julio Buffarini from San Paolo, Enzo Perez from Valencia, and Marcos Acuna from Racing. The strikers are Lionel Messi from Barcelona, Angel Correa from Atletico Madrid, Lucas Pratto from Atletico Mineiro, Sergio Aguero from Manchester City, Paulo Dybala from Juventus, and Gonzalo Higuain from Juventus.   

Besides Argentina, other team that is considered has great reputation in World Cup is Brazil. Brazil has so many talented players who came with very excellent skills. Even though Brazil has great name in soccer, the coach of Brazil national football team, Adenor Leonardo Bacchi or also known as Tite, confess that he feels anxiety during the match between Brazil and Argentina.

Tite had announced the names that will play for his squad last Friday. This squad is prepared to have match against Argentina and Peru in 2018 World Cup qualification of South America zone. About the match against Argentina, Tite said that he can’t sleep and feels anxiety since the match against Argentina is considered as the match between winners by him. According to Tite, the match against Argentina is very important both to him and his team. Tite said that the most important thing for his team is to keep the performance at the good level. Since he’s been chosen to lead the team, Tite help the team to score 12 goals in 4 matches. So far, Brazil gets 21 points from 10 matches while Argentina sits in the fifth ranking with 16 points.


Brazil has so many great players in this 2018 World Cup qualification. One of them is Neymar who is considered as one of the greatest football players in Brazil these days. According to the interview with Neymar, this player believes that Tite can bring Brazil to the victory in 2018 World Cup. Brazil has won 4 matches; all of them are qualification matches, since Tite became a coach. Under the guidance from Tite, the team can crawl up from sixth position to the top of standings and show the perfect performance in the front lines that has become the trademark of this team for so long.

Neymar believes that the 55 years old coach has every requirement to help Brazil win the sixth victory in Russia. Neymar said that the arrival of Neymar has change the national team but not change the environment. Neymar also said that Tite really surprised him as a coach. According to Neymar, Tite is one of the best persons who work for the team. Neymar feels so proud he can play under Tite’s guidance.

The 2018 World Cup Qualification Continues
Each team will give the best effort in this 2018 World Cup qualification. Some matches have been held while other qualification matches are still scheduled. If you have your own favorite team in this 2018 world Cup qualification, you might want to follow your favorite team’s position in the qualification. Some teams might have great reputation and came with highly skilled players. However, there’s still a chance for other teams’ top crawl up to the peak of the standings as well.   

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