2022 Qatar World Cup is in the final final stage of the game on all continents, while the Italian team, which has a profound history in the history of the World Cup, has been eliminated. They lost 0-1 to North Macedonia at home in the European play-offs, and have not qualified for two consecutive World Cups.
Review of Italy's history in the World Cup, it is brilliant. Italy's previous World Cup results are shown in the figure below.
Italy has entered the World Cup finals 6 times, won the championship 4 times, with a total record of 83 games, 45 wins, 21 draws and 17 losses. They won the championship in their home country for the first time in 1934, successfully defended the World Cup in France in 1938, and won the third championship in Spain in 44 years in 1982. 2006 Germany World Cup was their most recent year of winning. They won only less than the five-star Brazilian team.
But the performance of the Blues' last two qualifiers is shocking. Except for Italy who did not participate in the first World Cup in 1930, they participated in the qualifiers for the other 21 sessions, and 18 of them reached the final round of the World Cup, and only 3 times did not qualify. One of these three times was in the distant 1958 Swedish World Cup , and the remaining two were in 2018 and 2022.
2018 playoff Italy was eliminated by Sweden , and missed the World Cup finals again 60 years later. They were eliminated by North Macedonia in the 2022 playoffs and were absent for two consecutive times, which has never happened in Italy's World Cup history.
