yes is a shock in football , italy off in world cup is amazing, other teams off too, like netherland , ghana, costa marfil, camerun , united states and chile too , this all team be in last 2 or 3 WC!! teams like egypt and morroco came back to WC since 90´s :w00t
i just wonder why Morocco did not manage it for so many years. They always had great players.
But at the moment, Senegal is the far best national team in Africa, i even say they can go very far in 2018.
Italy really shocking. Netherlands does not shock me anymore, they also failed to qualify to EURO 2016, they are far away from what they where once, USA screwed things up against Trinidad and Tobago... CONCACAF qualifiers are easy up to a certain point, in the beginning you play against Anguilla, Saint Lucia, British Virgin Islands and so on, but in the last round the best 6 teams compete against each other, that is dangerous with Mexico and Costa Rica very strong opponents and also Honduras better then most people think.
Let's imagine, USA plans to make a "Loosers World Cup", a little tournament with the best nations which did not qualify for world cup. That would be interesting with Italy, Chile and so on strong nations, when they really do that, right before the actual world cup i would like. But i think Austria would not even make it to this one :laugh: :no:
Because of the failed qualifiers, Austria sacked the coach, and now they hired the coach of my favourite club Sturm Graz, now my team has to search a new coach, at a point where we are first place, no good time for switching the coach, so if my team will not be champion this year, it's the austrian national teams fault.
but b2t: Are all kits for next year leaked alreay? I am not sure if all the teams with new home kit also become new away kit? Only less away kits leaked until yet, i hope they will all be released soon so we can move on bringing them into the game....