Name: Stunning Shifts in Football: World Cup Qualification Drama
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Description: The recent football qualification rounds saw unexpected outcomes with traditional teams like Italy struggling, while newcomers like Norway showed strength.

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I mean it's sad to see Costa Rica. I think, I think that's the biggest upset because Costa Rica without Mexico, Canada, and USA being participating from this qualifications, just to see them at the last match versus Honduras, it was a sad game to watch. Both teams needed to win. Both teams play scared. Both teams played safely, and both teams got eliminated. Honduras at the last minute by your own goal from Guatemala versus Suriname, which makes this, uh, World Cup qualification is very, very special, you know, uh. For Central America, Guatemala, Salvador, Honduras, for them not able to make it to a to a World Cup that that give you the opportunity, a unique opportunity to make it. It's just sad. I, I feel, I feel bad for, for the fans. They don't deserve this, but it's football. It is. I just, when I think about Costa Rica, I think about the 2014 World Cup in Brazil when they had this amazing run, um, just, you know, a few matches away from getting into the quarterfinals. It was absolutely stunning run for Costa Rica and to watch them not even qualify now, it is quite hard. Breaking, but we're seeing the same thing happening also on the other side. We, uh, of, of, of the pond, so to speak. We, we talked about Italy, uh, making it now to the playoffs, you know, a team that's raised the trophy numerous times now in the playoffs despite having a very good record, right? Like Italy has won a lot of its last matches in the qualifying game. They lost one game. They were exposed by Norway. And what does that tell us? We're entering, let's say an era in football where we're watching new teams emerge. Without a doubt in Africa, Morocco is emerged as a superpower. We've seen Croatia rise the ranks in the last few World Cups. Uh, Norway now, a formidable force, Holland leading them, you know, to, to spanking Italy for a lack of a better term, and so. The Italians will complain. They'll talk about the rules this and that, but at the end of the day they were exposed by a new team, Norway, newcomers, and so it's like it's almost like a change in power. It's like a change, right? It's like we're seeing new teams come out and that's gonna tip that balance of power. I think the statement from Norway playing in Italy and, and, and winning 4-1, it was a it was a big statement saying, you know what, yeah, we haven't won a World Cup in our history, but we're here we have really good players and it's, it's good to see in football, you know, you see now all around the world that. The teams that you would never expect to grow are growing and, and, and that's just amazing and teams that have players, you know, in the elite level, you know, we've seen in the past players that do not have the national team to make it to the, to the Latin never made it to the World Cup and he was one of the top teams, top, top, top, top players, but now we see that Jaland that for a long. Long time people didn't believe that he was going to participate in a World Cup. Now I believe that it's a threat for me. Norway is one of the top candidates because Galland can score against any, any team. Hey, don't, don't underestimate the Vikings. Remember when Iceland randomly did like amazing. They won, they won, they won a Euro Cup just by defending just the same way as, as Greece did once, uh, not too long ago. Now another surprising team that won in a spectacular manner with three bangers of a goal achiever break down the path of Scotland to the World Cup. I mean it was crazy. They, they, they go up winning 10 with an amazing bicycle kick. Uh, then in Denmark scored the 1-1. They go up to 1, they mark and with 10 men, which is crazy, um, Scotland tied the game and then at the last minute they scored this goal that that made the whole country the happiest country in the world by qualifying one more time to the World Cup, which is uh just to see the faces and the players, but most of it for me and the fans, the fact that they're celebrating a World Cup that they're qualifying to a World Cup is just a feeling that that that that I that I that I hope everybody can feel one day.

Stunning Shifts in Football: World Cup Qualification Drama

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