Why is the US team not at the World Championships in Russia? World Cup qualifying matches southern
The US national soccer team is not participating in the 2018 World Cup, which runs from June 14 to July 15 in Russia, because it failed to qualify for the tournament. The Americans failed to make it to the final stage of the championship for the first time since 1986.
The team successfully completed the fourth round of qualifying for their region (CONCACAF) and reached the final, fifth. The 6 best teams were selected there and played each other in two rounds. In the final qualifying round match, the Americans only had to defeat the outsiders, the Trinidad and Tobago team, and then they would qualify directly for the championship. However, they could not even achieve a draw (this result would allow them to get into the play-offs). The game, which took place on October 10, 2017, ended with a score of 2:1 in favor of the Trinidadians. IN final tournament In the end, the teams of Panama, Mexico and Costa Rica made it through.
How did the US team perform at the last championship?
At the last tournament in Brazil, the US team lost to Belgium in the round of 16 in extra time.
The US team is considered one of the strongest in CONCACAF. The national team occupied the highest position in the FIFA ranking in April 2006 (4th place). In June 2018, the team was in 25th place. The highest achievement of the team recent years is the quarter-final at the 2002 World Championships, which took place in Japan and South Korea.
The Ukrainian team tried to qualify for the World Cup in qualifying group I, but took third place and did not even make it to the qualifying playoffs. Chapter standings FIFA World Cup 2018 - these are the tables of all 9 European Qualifier groups (in the 2016/17 division) and qualifying tournament on 5 more continents (Africa, Asia, North and South America, Oceania), as well as tables of all 8 groups in the final part of the 2018 World Cup, determined by drawing lots on December 1, 2017.Number of matches, wins, draws, losses, goals scored and conceded. The form and performance of the teams in the qualifications and finals. The 2018 World Cup table will help you find out who has already taken or has the greatest chance of taking first and second places in the final tournament, which Russia won the right to host.
The top 16 teams will qualify for the 2018 FIFA World Cup playoffs. 2 from each group (A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H). Tables group stage The 2018 FIFA World Cup will help calculate the chances of the teams, who will make it to the 1/8 finals, and who will be the two losers of each of the quartets. As it became known after the draw, in each of the groups, except those in which Russia and Poland participate, there are 2 teams from Europe and no more than one from any other continent.
Why is one team ahead of the other in the table, although both have the same number of points? The main criterion here is not personal meetings. To determine who will take a higher place, it is important to calculate the difference between goals scored and goals conceded, and if these indicators are equal, we count the number of goals scored. Whoever has more goals is higher. If everything matches here, the results of personal meetings are taken into account. You will find all the current data in the 2018 World Cup table section.
If there are several teams with an equal number of points overall and in matches against each other, then the difference in goals scored between competitors is calculated, and then the number of goals scored. If this does not help determine who should take what place in the table group tournament World Cup 2018, then fair play points are calculated: for the first yellow card minus 1 point, for an indirect red card (after 2 yellow cards) minus 3 points, for a direct red card minus 4 points, and for a yellow and direct red card minus 5 points. In the extreme case of equality of these indicators, the teams' places in the table will be decided by a draw by the FIFA organizing committee.
Using the 2018 FIFA World Cup standings section, you can go to the news for each individual team by clicking on the team that interests you. What is the situation in the national teams of Germany, Spain, France, Brazil and Argentina? All matches played and a list of players involved, as well as their performance. But by clicking on the 2016/17 season, you instantly receive all the information and data of each player called up to the Ukrainian national team as part of the qualifying tournament.
In the CONMEBOL zone in South America The 2018 World Cup follows a simple scheme: all 10 teams belonging to the South American Football Confederation play double-round matches at home and away. The top four qualify directly, and the fifth place gets a chance to compete in the intercontinental playoffs with the best team in Oceania, presumably New Zealand.
Such a rich qualifying tournament scheme forces teams from South America to start playing as early as October 2015 in order to identify the lucky ones who will qualify for the World Cup. During this time, several teams have already changed coaches, two teams - Bolivia and Venezuela - lost all chances of traveling to Russia, but Brazil became the first to secure a ticket to the World Cup.
2018 World Cup qualifying tournament in South America: review of candidates
The Brazilian national team, after failing at the home 2014 World Cup in the semi-final match with Germany, was in a state of shock, which can explain the bet on Dunga as the head coach of the Selecao. Nothing good came of this, and after the unsuccessful Copa America, the former captain of the team that won the 2002 World Cup was replaced by a little-known specialist in Europe, but with extensive experience in Brazil, Tite.
Brazil, Colombia and Uruguay are on fire
Tite has worked with many teams in Brazil, won trophies with Corinthians and Gremio, Internacional, and besides, he knows Brazilian football well from the inside, as well as those players who are now playing in Europe. With his arrival, the Canarina began playing vibrant attacking football, and Neymar emerged as a mature team leader for the first time in a long time, partnering with Felipe Coutinho and Roberto Firmino. The Brazilians tore Argentina to pieces and put together a winning streak under Tite, which guaranteed them a ticket to the 2018 World Cup four rounds before the finish.
In second place is Jose Pekerman's Colombia, which was very popular at the previous World Cup but has since been somewhat disappointing at the Copa America. Now the Colombians have Falcao, who has scored again, and with him Bacca. Teofilo Gutierrez and James Rodriguez. A strong attacking line is based on a solid defense, where new leaders have emerged - Tottenham newcomer Davinson Sanchez, Santiago Arias from PSV, Yerry Mina from Palmeiras.
The third contender to go to the World Cup in Russia is Oscar Tabares' Uruguay, which invariably relies on the attacking talent of Luis Suarez and Edinson Cavani in attack and rational, pragmatic play in defense. Veterans Diego Godin, Martin Caceres, Maxi Pereira, Egidio Arevalo Rios, Fernando Muslera are in the ranks, but there are also new players. In particular, it is worth noting the progress of Jose Maria Jimenez from Atlético Madrid, Matias Vecino from Inter and striker Diego Roland from Bordeaux.
Chile is playing inconsistently
The best team in South America at the last two Copa America, the Chilean team, is experiencing some problems qualifying for the World Cup and is playing inconsistently. The Chileans are well known to Russian football fans from the Confederations Cup, where they represented South America and lost to the Germans in the final. Their leaders are traditional - goalkeeper Claudio Bravo, defenders Gary Medel and Mauricio Isla, Arturo Vidal with Alexis Sanchez and Eduardo Vargas. There are also new faces - Charles Arangiz from Bayer, Felipe Gutierrez from the Brazilian Inter.
Argentina national team crisis
But the most attention is drawn to the Argentina national team, which had big problems in qualifying for the 2018 World Cup after the great disappointment experienced by the “silver” team at the Copa America. Then Leo Messi announced that he no longer wanted to play in the national team, then changed his mind, but all this turbulence in the national team camp could not but affect its results. After Gerardo Martino, the Argentine national team was taken over by local specialist Bauza, but he was unable to bring one of the favorites of the selection in South America back to life and now the “albi-celeste” is coached by Jorge Sampaoli. The same man who beat Argentina in the Copa America final in Chile as head coach of the Chilean national team and then successfully managed the Spanish Sevilla.
Under Sampaoli, Argentina was able to achieve several important victories and now occupies the same fifth place, which gives the right to play in the playoffs with New Zealand. The prospect is not too daunting, but there are still four games ahead which Messi and company must use to spare themselves the extra workload.
Near Argentina there are the national teams of Ecuador, Peru and Paraguay, who have not lost their chance of qualifying for Russia, but frankly in their class they are inferior to the teams mentioned above and getting one of them into the top five will be a real miracle and at the same time a tragedy for fans of one of the “big ones” South American teams. Bolivia and Venezuela have already lost all chances to play at the World Cup and are finishing out the qualifying matches as extras.
By October 11, 2017, 23 teams had already been identified that would definitely play at the World Cup. During the night, a quartet of American teams from North, Central and South America were added to the already existing 19 teams.
First and Top news- the Argentine team will definitely come to Russia in the summer of 2018. Argentine leader Lionel Messi decided to personally take into his own hands the issue of getting into the final tournament of the 2018 World Cup. Leo scored three goals against Ecuador in the decisive game. Argentina won 3:1 and qualified for the 2018 World Cup.
The Argentines' entry into the final part of the 2018 World Cup was made possible thanks to a number of other results that became known following the results of the last round. In particular, the Colombian team played a 1:1 draw with the Peruvian team.
And now the Peruvians will fight to get to Russia for the World Cup in play-offs with New Zealand. But the Colombians will definitely play next summer on Russian fields.
Two accurate shots in this game were scored by Barcelona forward Luis Suarez. The “extra” team in South America turned out to be the Chilean team. In the last round they lost to Brazil with a score of 0:3 and did not qualify for either the final round or the play-offs.
When the meetings in South America died down that night, the fate of two direct tickets from CONCACAF was decided. And the first and loudest sensation is that the US team will not be in Russia next summer.
In the last round, all they had to do was not lose to the team of Trinidad and Tobago, which had already lost all chances of getting into the final tournament of the 2018 World Cup. However, the Americans even managed to lose to their rivals with a score of 1:2. And for the first time since 1986, there will be no US team at the World Cup.
The Panama team took full advantage of the US team's misfire. The Panamanians played with the Costa Rican team, which had already qualified for the 2018 World Cup, and achieved a strong-willed victory with a score of 2:1.
And according to the results of the qualifying round in CONCACAF, she took third place, receiving a direct ticket to the World Cup in Russia. But the Honduras team beat Mexico with a score of 3:2. And now on November 6 and 14 this year, Australia and Honduras will compete for a ticket to the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia.
Thus, the number of participants in the 2018 World Championship as of October 11 is 23. There are still nine places left to compete for.
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You dreamed about it, now cry. The USA will not come to Russia for the 2018 World Cup
Our country was left not only without the US football team, but also without its fans, and therefore without their money.The last day of the October qualifying matches for the 2018 World Cup brought virtually no surprises: Argentina qualified with a Messi hat-trick, Holland failed to beat Sweden with the score they needed 8:0 (as a result, the headline we had planned, “Holland - translated: the land of goals,” disappeared) ) and did not make it to Russia, and Portugal beat Switzerland and, together with Ronaldo, will come to us this coming summer... Although, no, there was still one big surprise...
Team USA unexpectedly lost to Trinidad and Tobago. In a parallel match, Panama won over Costa Rica, which had already secured a ticket to Russia. As a result, the Americans were left out of the World Cup, and Panama will play at the world championship for the first time in its history.
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Let them watch their American football! PROS
Considering the historically difficult political relations between Russia and the United States, as well as the wave of hypertrophied pseudo-patriotism in our country, many football fans were optimistic about the news that the US national team would not come to Russia for the World Cup.
In some ways they are right. Considering the attacks on Russian sport, whose roots go back not only to Great Britain, but also to the United States of America, the absence of their team at the World Cup will protect us from the criticism, fair and not so, that could overshadow this football holiday. Fans wouldn’t stir up a scandal for every little reason, be it a sidelong glance at a dark-skinned fan, an ambiguous attitude on the part of Russians towards the manifestation of homosexuality in the ranks of our guests, or simple ignorance in English salespeople and cashiers in a store where respectable Americans suddenly decided to stock up on something.
Another plus is probably not even that the Americans will not be at the World Cup in Russia, but that instead of them we will be able to see someone new - fans of the Panama national team, about whom little is known in the world at all. What if they make the same impression on us that the fans of the Iceland national team made at Euro 2017 a year and a half ago?
The third plus is the guaranteed absence of any provocations from Russian fans and simply overly patriotic Russians, who would hardly miss the opportunity to offend some fans dressed from head to toe in the stars and stripes.
