#72 How does World Cup qualification work? AFC, CAF, Concacaf, Conmebol, Oceania, and UEFA explained!
Soccer 101
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4.9 • 853 Ratings
🗓️ 2 September 2021
⏱️ 40 minutes
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This episode of 101 fell in an international break, so Ryan Bailey, Taylor Rockwell, Joe Lowery and Graham Ruthven are here to discuss the process of World Cup qualification. We run through how each of FIFA’s confederations determine their participants in soccer’s showpiece, and suggest some alternative methods that might be used.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Soccer 101, the podcast in which we attempt to scratch your soccer question itches. |
| 0:17.0 | My name is Ryan Bailey and on today's show, with it being an international break, we're looking |
| 0:22.0 | at World Cup qualification. How does it work in each of FIFA's six confederations? How has |
| 0:28.3 | COVID impacted the 2022 cycle? Why did Commonwealth design it to make it so darn easy for Brazil and |
| 0:34.7 | Argentina to go through every time? All these questions and more we shall |
| 0:39.4 | tackle. Joining me is part of the awesome for some for your oral pleasure today. We have Taylor |
| 0:44.9 | Rockwell. I said oral. You did and I appreciated it. How you do? How are you on Ryan? Good. Thank you |
| 0:50.4 | sir. Graham Rothman. How are you today? Not bad. I'm looking forward to talking |
| 0:54.5 | about the one thing that Scotland is worse at than anything else, so that's going to be fun. |
| 0:59.5 | Now, we're not talking about cooking today, Graham. |
| 1:01.1 | Oh, right. Graham, why? Why would you start that way? Why would you just tee him up? |
| 1:08.8 | I mean, he's seen our deep fried pizza. |
| 1:11.0 | I know he's got nothing on us on our cooking. |
| 1:14.1 | Anyone can see how good that is. |
| 1:16.1 | Sure. |
| 1:16.4 | And hello, Joseph Lowry. |
| 1:19.9 | Oh, hello, Ryan. |
| 1:21.3 | I don't have anything else to add, guys. |
| 1:26.1 | Well, we are talking about World Cup qualification. Of course being a Scott graham you have plenty of |
| 1:30.3 | expertise in this area so we'll be coming will be leading on you for this episode a total of 210 |
| 1:37.3 | FIFA member nations have and are attempted to qualify it for the big jamboree in katar next winter |
| 1:42.8 | fighting for 31 places because katar host, Taylor, guaranteed entry. |
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