On April 2, the Qatar World Cup group draw was announced, the current top 32 have locked 29 seats, many of the world's strongest teams have passed, but there are also some teams in the gutter overturned, in the latest FIFA national team rankings, the top 32 teams include 6th Italy, 17th Colombia, 19th Sweden, 28th Chile, 30th Nigeria, 32nd Egypt failed to qualify for the World Cup.
If you put together a team of stars who have not won tickets to this World Cup, the squad is also very strong, and the total value of these players is no less than that of the star-studded France team.
So who should be the 11 starters among the players who failed to win the World Cup?
Goalkeeper: Oblak (Slovenia worth 60 million euros)
The best goalkeeper in La Liga for 4 years, the top three super players in the world today are close to 30 years old but have not participated in the World Cup once, this is the situation of Oblak now, in fact, there is a 65 million Donaruma in the goalkeeper position, but overall, Oblak is better than Donnarumma in terms of both technology and play.
As a Slovenian he has been voted the country's best player five times, but has made zero appearances in the World Series, and Slovenia has historically played in the World Cup in 2002 and 2010, but for the generation led by Oblak, they have not been able to enter the main tournament either in the European Championship or the World Cup. And next to Oblak there is a sad Handanovich.
Slovenia alone has a population of 2 million, less than an ordinary prefecture-level city in China, but their strength in addition to football, basketball and ice hockey cannot be underestimated.
Left-back: Alaba (Austria worth €55 million)
Alaba's fate is similar to that of Oblak, as the country's football level is not strong enough to delay the entry into the World Cup for such a world-class player, who is the youngest international in Austria's history and has won two Champions Leagues and 10 Bundesliga titles.
But the World Cup is still a dream for him, and in this European qualifier, Austria lost to Wales in the play-offs and regretted missing the 2022 Qatar World Cup. Fortunately for Oblak, Alaba has played in two European Championships and as Captain Austria he will lead the team to the next tournament.
Centre-back: Bastoni (Italy worth 60 million euros)
Once Italy's proudest is their steely defense, and generations of Italian quality centre-backs such as Baresi, Nesta and Chiellini are the core of defense, and now this responsibility has overwhelmed Bastoni, who was born in 1999, who is the most anticipated rookie in Italy, who has experienced last summer's European Championship victory and this year's qualifiers.
Fortunately, he is still young, and in the future he will also belong to the stage of the World Cup, especially his center-back partners whether it is Chiellini 37, Bonucci 34 or Archerbi, 34, their national team career has come to an end, And Bastoni will fight against the Italian defensive flag and look forward to the blues ushering in a new life.
Centre-back: Škriniar (Slovakia worth €65 million)
The 27-year-old Inter centre-back Shkrinar once again missed the World Cup fixtures, finishing third in their group in qualifying and ultimately missing out, their last appearance in the World Cup was in 2006 when he was only 11 years old, and he left the peak of his national team in 2016, when the core of the international team was Hamsik and Shkrinar was just a defensive rookie.
He is the Slovak footballer of the year for three consecutive years, he led the team to be eliminated in the group at euro 2020, and now once again missed the ticket to Qatar, and it is becoming more and more difficult to qualify in the future, but his strength is still not to be underestimated, tall, fierce, defensively stable, and an absolute European ace defender.
Right-back: Di Lorenzo (Italy, €25 million)
Di Lorenzo, who had previously been the main right-back in north Macedonia, was absent due to injury because he missed what was probably the most important game of his national team career, and in italy's traditional defensive composition, it is generally left and right, di Lorenzo is a typical defensive full-back.
Di Lorenzo did not win the favor of the national team in the 2017 World Cup against Sweden in Russia, Ventura has always been inclined to the combination of three centre-backs, with two attacking and defending wing-wingers, and under Mancini's team returned to 433, the last European Championship final Di Lorenzo started and made 6 appearances in the entire cup.
Back: Ndidi (Nigeria worth 60 million euros)
Ndidi is the representative of the "black and hard" back of football, in 2017 moved to Leicester City in order to replace Kante, compared to the more all-round Kante, Ndidi's interception, scramble and steal level are good, is the world football's excellent defensive back, his more important role in the stadium is sweeping and defending, and has such a good long-range shot on the offensive end.
As the core of Nigeria, he has participated in the World Cup in Russia, but in this cup, Nigeria lost to Ghana in the final stage of the tournament with a low number of 1:1 away goals in two legs, and the African Eagles missed the World Cup for the first time in 16 years.
Midfielder: Verratti (Italy, €55 million)
The 29-year-old Verratti missed another major event in his life, winning 19 championship trophies in Paris, but the World Cup stage was slow to open to him, and the life-and-death battle with North Macedonia was the first choice for Italy to handle the ball, but he could not help the team to win.
Verratti is known as Pirlo II, he controls the rhythm of the team with organization and scoring, and is also one of the best B2B midfielders in the world today, since the defeat of Russia he has been corrected and has become the core of Italy's midfield, but he has no Ibrahimovic and Mbappe, the problem of the weakness of the Italian national team that has plagued the Italian national team since 8 years ago is still unresolved, and the next four years are likely to need to make way for Tonali and other juniors, and he is likely to retire with regrets of not being able to participate in the World Cup.
Midfielder: Barrera (Italy, €70 million)
Capello has said that Barrera is one of the three best midfielders in Europe, his appearance has changed Inter Milan, in a way it is true, last season Inter Milan pulled Juventus off the Serie A throne, Barrera contributed 3 goals and 10 assists in 34 league games, and at the European Cup, Barrera is also the absolute core, with Verratti and Jorginho forming the Blues midfield trident.
If Verratti was the core of Italy's midfield in the last four years, Barrera has improved the fastest in those four years, but with Jorginho missing the penalty, the 25-year-old will miss his first World Cup trip. Barrera has given Italy the ability to maneuver, playing from the back to the front in midfield, having the skills to defend, providing the hardness of the midfield and advancing the rhythm of the attack.
Left winger: Chiesa (Italy worth €70 million)
In the summer of 1998, Enrico Chiesa appeared in France at the last minute in the world cup with Ravanelli, but 24 years later his son Federico Chiesa was not so lucky, and he missed the crucial play-off due to injury, and Mancini was missing a striker.
In the name of his legendary father, The Younger Chieza started from Fiorentina and joined Juventus for 60 million euros last season was a year of harvest and growth for him, against Austria and Spain in the knockout matches he played a role in turning the tide, Mancini's Italy abandoned the once impregnable defense, instead of using passing control to form a new system, they succeeded in winning the European Championship, but in the end they failed, the most feared thing about passing is to quickly counterattack they were stolen by North Macedonia.
Maybe the elegant Mancini of that game was also anxious, but he looked at the bench, missing the little Chiesa who could do a lot in the chaos.
Right winger: Salah (Egypt worth €100 million)
Four years ago in the final round of the World Cup qualifiers, Egypt received a penalty in the last moment, the core of the team Salah kicked the whole Egypt into ecstasy, they broke into the Russian World Cup group stage, and four years later, Salah did not score a penalty, he watched with tears in his eyes Liverpool teammate Mane celebrate the victory.
In the final penalty shootout, his eyes were illuminated by fans with laser pointers, and it was not easy for Salah to lead Egypt to the final 12 yards, he was the absolute light of Africa, but unfortunately suffered from the gap in strength in his country and finally lost the opportunity to participate in the World Cup.
Centre-forward: Haaland (Norway worth €150 million)
21 years old two and a half Bundesliga season appearances 61 times scored 56 goals, super genius Haaland is likely to be the future of Europe's first striker has not ushered in their own continental competition, Norway ranked 41st in the world, in fact, not weak, in addition to Haaland also has Players from the five major leagues such as Erdegaard, Joshua King, Tolsby, Lursund, etc., but Norway was in the same group as the Netherlands and Turkey in the qualifiers, and was eventually eliminated.
The era that truly belongs to Haaland has not really come, but everyone knows that his next stop will be the top club in Europe, he will also go to a new peak here, for Haaland he still has honors and statistics, he wants to write a strong mark in world football, then the World Cup will be his best chance.
The combined value of the starting 11 has exceeded 770 million euros, after the highest starting point for the national team was France's 500 million euros. There should be a lot of people on the bench including Donnarumma, Chiellini, Bonucci, Erdegaard, Aye, Osmaine and many others, some of them are no longer at their peak, some of them are still young, and there will be 48 teams in the next World Cup, which is good news for Norway, Nigeria, Slovenia, Austria and even China.