20 November 2013

See the best XI not going to World Cup 2014

Welcome to that time every four years.
Football fans all across the globe have been working out which players won’t be at the showpiece event of world football. (With just one play-off match remaining and Uruguay all but home and hosed against Jordan.)
The biggest name not going is undoubted Zlatan Ibrahimovic but the Welsh pair of Gareth Bale and Aaron Ramsey would undoubtedly have helped make Brazil 2014 an even better spectacle than it already would be. Our team is above, followed below by some other suggestions from the Guardian and ESPN FC. It can easily be argued that the play-off system for the World Cup is deeply flawed.  Why do all African sides have to go into a two-legged tie? Surely, the whole world should enter one play-off system.
Sweden’s route of Germany in the groups and Portugal in the play-offs is far harder than Mexico who failed to qualify through CONCACAF but then were almost given a bye to face New Zealand

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