On March 25, Beijing time, in the World Preliminary Tournament in the European zone, turkey once again encountered setbacks, they lost to Portugal, resulting in their fifth consecutive failure to enter the World Cup. The Turkish media directly changed the headline to "The World Cup Curse".
The last time Turkey reached the World Cup, it happened to be in the same group as the national football team. In the past 20 years, the quality of their youth training has declined, and the league has spent a lot of money to poach many former Chinese Super League veterans, but local players have not improved. To this day, you can't even name the 2-3 most famous Turkish internationals in active duty.
And the number of consecutive world cup absences, I don't know how long to wait.
Turkey's loss to Portugal is not a surprise. However, seeing that in the other half of the region, North Macedonia has done a miracle, this has made the Turks even more depressed.
This is the fifth time in a row that they have fallen into the World Cup, the last time they played in the World Cup, in 2002. That year, they met Brazil in the group stage, as well as the strongest national football team. Before the game, the sketch of the Spring Festival Gala said that the national football field was 3-0. As a result, Turkey really played a 3-0 in the national football team.
Due to the elimination of many strong teams, Turkey finally achieved a good result of third place that year.
At that time, there were also rumors that the third world cup could not participate in the next World Cup. It is not surprising that Turkey is absent from the 06 World Cup. But the embarrassing thing is that in the next World Cup, they all failed to qualify.
In the 2006 World Preliminaries, they played 4-4 with Sweden in the play-offs, but were eliminated by the opponent's goal at home.
In the 10-year World Preliminary Round, Turkey was third in the group stage and did not qualify for the play-offs.
In the 14 and 18 world preliminaries, Turkey only finished fourth in the group, winning only 4 and 5 matches respectively.
In 22 years, they lost to Portugal in the first round of the play-offs.
Although they re-entered the play-offs this year, this was due to a change in the rules. In the first round of the play-offs, Turkey was the only team to lose 2 goals to their opponents.
It can be said that in the past 20 years, Turkish football has seen a huge regression. Not being able to play in the World Cup is not a curse, but the lack of strength of the team.
Turkey's strongest player, Charhanolu, has been called serie A no. 10 by many fans.
In addition, they have won only one of the last 3 European Championship finals in total. In the newly established European Nations Cup, Turkey has participated in B-class competitions twice and finished at the bottom of the group twice.
It is no coincidence that the national football team has been eliminated in the World Preliminary Tournament for 5 consecutive years and Turkey has been eliminated for 5 consecutive times.
The Turkish Super League, which was once a strong youth training, has now become a stage for high-paid foreign aid. Moreover, they are very fond of foreign aides who have played in the Chinese Super League. In the past 2 years, a large number of big-name foreign aides have left the Chinese Super League, and most of their places are tuchao.
However, the performance of the Turkish Super League teams in the Champions League and the Europa League is not as good as a year.
Like the national football team, the Turkish player fault line is also very serious. Fortunately, its clubs are aware of this problem, Trabzon Sports, Galatasaray and other clubs, are forcibly pushing local frontcourt players to appear, especially a group of post-99s.
The next World Cup will expand, but the expansion will have little impact on the difficulty of the European region. Turkey wants to return to the World Cup first than the national football team and needs more efforts.
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