Canada enters the World Cup after 36 years! The Chinese men's football team is the first to enter the World Cup in 44 years, and it has not been lucky for 20 years!
News on Monday, March 28, 2022 Beijing time. In the early hours of this morning, the news came from the North American division of the Qatar World Cup, and the Canadian team successfully entered the World Cup with a score of 8 wins, 4 draws and 1 loss. And this is the second time that the Canadian men's football team has entered the World Cup after a gap of 36 years! For a long time, Canadian football, which is more desert than the United States, has rarely been paid attention to. But after a long hibernation, the Canadian team also qualified successfully.
Do you know where the 2026 World Cup, the next World Cup, will be held? The answer is that it is hosted in 3 countries in North America: the United States + Canada + Mexico. The success of this impact on the World Cup, coupled with the status of the next host, Canadian football can be further improved. And Chinese football, only envy and jealousy!
In the 2002 World Cup, we successfully participated. I remember that after the national football team defeated Oman 1-0 in the top ten in 2001, the slogan played by the fans on the street was: 44 years of waiting, the national football team participated in the World Cup! 44 years, indeed, is really too long. But the greater regret is that after participating in the 2002 World Cup, we missed the World Cup for 5 consecutive times, and after 20 years, we still missed the World Cup.
After participating in 2002, although it lost 9 goals in 3 games, many fans at that time felt that the national football team should be normalized in the future. However, since then, the 2006 World Cup in Germany, the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, and the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, the national football team not only did not participate, but even did not participate in the Top 12 in the Asian region, all fell in the qualifiers!
And the 2018 World Cup in Russia, the 2022 Qatar World Cup, the national football team is finally at least reaching the top 12 - of course, the process is very difficult, are the last round of thrills to advance to the round of 12 - but all out of the round of 12. Well, in the 2026 World Cup, the Asian region is estimated to have 8.5 places, but for the national football team that currently ranks 9th in Asia, it is still worrying!