He picked up the knee injury in preseason and is yet to play a single minute for his new (old) club. The French talisman has had a nightmarish season after joining Juventus from Manchester United in the summer transfer window. Paul Pogba will be sidelined for the World Cup after failing to recover from surgery on his damaged meniscus, and the timeframe for his return is yet to be decided. Paul Pogba, Ngolo Kante and now Christopher Nkunku (France) Expect Italy to field a more youth-oriented defence at Euro 2024, which might give fans an idea of what to expect from the four-time world champions. There are a lot of upcoming players who will be chomping at the bit to make an impact in the United States, Canada and Mexico, but it’s more or less curtains for the senior members of the squad like Leonardo Bonucci who will be 39 in 2026. A team with a glut of superstars like Marco Verrati, Gianluigi Donnarruma and Federico Chiesa, who are the reigning European champions, will now have to aim for 2026. If that is the case, he will retire without winning the Champions League or a World Cup in a career glittering with accolades.Īzzurri fans will have to watch the second straight World Cup without their national team as mighty Italy failed to qualify after losing to North Macedonia in perhaps the most unlikely result in the qualifiers. The wear and tear of playing football at the highest level has finally caught up with the Swede who, if rumours are to be believed, might retire soon. Ibrahimovic might still want to play at the 2026 World Cup, but that seems highly unlikely. The AC Milan star has had his club season ravaged by injury and recently hit 41 years of age.
Sweden’s mercurial striker missed out on his third and probably final World Cup after his national team was eliminated by Poland in the qualifiers. Salah will now have to wait for 2026 which could well be his final chance to make an impact at the World Cup. That must have hurt Liverpool’s main man, who had an injury- affected 2018 World Cup in Russia where they were eliminated at the group stage. Egypt were eliminated by Senegal on penalties in the qualification stage, where Salah missed a crucial penalty and saw his former Reds teammate Sadio Mane book his spot at the grand tourney.
The Liverpool talisman has been having a pretty mediocre season at Liverpool and on top of that, the Egyptian King will be watching the World Cup from home as his country failed to qualify for the tournament. If nothing changes in the future, Haaland could find himself in an unenviable list of great footballers who failed to kick a ball at the World Cup. The last time Norway qualified for the big stage was in 1998 in France, where they were eliminated in the Round of 16.
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