>>155620146By playing a ridiculously week CAF qualifying group featuring namibia, liberia, malawi, and equatorial guinea
>>155620146>got raped by norway, twice>lost to every other relevant team>only able to consistently beat israel, therefore were cursed. >choked their last chance to bosnia due to curse
They're just that bad now
UEFA didn't receive enough charity slots in the expansion to give Italy a chance
>>155620449What are you on about American tourist? Italy won every other game apart from to Norway which they lost twice to - so they have to play a playoff - that's fair. What's not fair is that 1 playoff isn't enough now, they have to get through 2 teams. And what's definitely not fair is they only have a single match to do it - not the traditional home and away legs that they did every world cup until the last which the mark of the globohomo takeover. Italy are no the superpower they once were. But if it were home and away as it traditionally would be vastly more likely to get through. UEFA are so cucked that they barely got anymore spots for the 48 teams, despite already way overperforming for the amount of spots they got in the 32 team format. And the doing away of the traditional 2-leg playoff to see who qualifies marks the beginning of the end for proper football since it's knowingly and willfully just leaving it to chance or introducing a big element of chance to it. I mean think about it - in the group stage Spain drew Cabo Verde, they would be in a penalty shootout which is a complete coin flip and could just as easily be out according to current UEFA playoff rules. Granted Spain knew a draw wasn't the end of their world cup at the time of playing, but the point is that the group stage at the world cup is more rigorous than UEFA qualifying. A knockout format before the world cup even begins, it's ridiculous.
They didn't grease Infantino's palm (enough)
>>155620146the bigger question is, why is a brown portuguese man so obsessed with turkey
>>155621004>UEFA are so cucked that they barely got anymore spots for the 48 teams, despite already way overperforming for the amount of spots they got in the 32 team formatUEFA teams are overrated and this World Cup is proof of that. If you’re not a top 4 team in UEFA, you’re New Zealand tier.
