WM-QUALI worldwide: New Caledonia celebrates, Brazil breathes a

By winning against Tahiti, Neukaledonia has achieved the intercontinental playoff tournament for participating in the World Cup-Brazil breathes after a victory

The football world has six Confederations. One of them is the UEFA, but the World Cup qualifier also runs in the other areas. Everywhere there is more places to distribute more to distribute by expanding the World Cup than before.

Oceania: New Caledonia reaches finals and Playoff tournament

After the clear 3-0 against Tahiti, Neukaledonia celebrated a victory that opens up a chance that never had been there. The archipelago, a French overseas area with around 270,000 people, is in the final of the qualification tournament in Oceania and could qualify directly for the World Cup with a win, opponent is either Fiji or the big favorite of New Zealand. Tahiti scored the supposed connection goal for 1: 2, which was abandoned because of offside. TV pictures later suggested a wrong decision, there is no video assistant in Oceania.

Georges Gope-Feepej was the man of the day with two goals. He recalled a 2-0 win against New Zealand 13 years ago. “In 2012 we showed a great performance. And we believe that everything is possible in a game,” said Gope-Feepej.

The winner of the tournament gets the only direct starting point of Oceania. Since Australia switched to Asian Confederation before the 2010 World Cup, New Zealand has always been the qualification winner in Oceania – Monday the final has increased in Auckland.

By expanding the World Cup to 48 teams, Oceania has a fixed starting place for the first time. The loser of the final gets a place in the intercontinental playoff tournament and it now also has new calmedonia. At this tournament, six teams from all confederations play two other places at the World Cup except the UEFA.

South America: Brazil with Exemption

The currently somewhat crising Brazil brought the qualification with a narrow 2-1 against Colombia. Vinicius Junior hit victory in the ninth minute of added time – it was his first goal in qualification. “I owe the Selecao so much for everything she did for me,” said Vini Jr. “That was the liberation we needed,” cheered Barcelona’s top performer Raphinha, who had taken the lead with his converted penalty early (5th). Colombia had been compensated by Luis Diaz (41.).

Before the duel on Tuesday in Argentina (25 points), the Selecao (21) is the first pursuer of the world champion. Argentina still plays in Uruguay (20) on Saturday night. With 19 points, Colombia still remains six points in front of seventh place as the table sixth. The first six qualify directly for the World Cup. The table seventh takes part in the playoff tournament with New Caledonia, and Bolivia currently occupies this place.

Asia: 28 minutes of stoppage time – but Iran almost through

At the end of the first half, there was 28 minutes of stoppage time against the United Arab Emirates because there were problems with the floodlight.

And so the former Leverkusener Sardar Azmoun, who plays in the Emirates for Al-Nahli Dubai today, scored 1-0 for Iran in the 27th minute of stoppage time. Mohammad Mohebi increased (70th), so Iran can hardly be used to qualify.

Japan had already reached it on Thursday. Daichi Kamada, formerly at Eintracht Frankfurt, scored the leadership at 2-0 (0-0) against Bahrain, which made the four -time Asian master perfect prematurely. For Japan it is the eighth World Cup participation in a row.

Africa: Cameroon Patzt, Cape Verde in front

In Africa, Cameroon made a serious slip at the start of the match day at the previously pointless Eswatini.

Due to the 0-0 camera, Cape Verde was able to pass in the group and is now the lead leader through the 1-0 victory against Mauritius. Only the group winners will surely reach the next round.

Europe: Germany will play World Cup at the earliest in June

The first groups of World Cup qualifications will also start in Europe this week. Germany will play either from June or from September, which depends on the outcome of the games in the Nations League quarter-finals against Italy. Because the winners of the quarter-finals have to play in one of the four-way groups of the World Cup qualification for reasons of appointment, placeholders were raffled off at the draw. There are two possible groups for Germany and Italy:

North America: Nations League instead of World Cup qualifiers

There are currently no qualifying games in Concocaf, the Confederation for North America, Central America and the Caribbean.

The Nations League and the qualification for the Gold Cup comparable to the EM takes place there.