Australia belongs to the Asian region of the World Cup. They have participated in the five World Cups in 1974, 2006, 2010, 2014, and 2018. The last four of them were achieved after joining AFC. It can be said that Australia has joined the Asian Football Association. United, let yourself become a big winner in life, and the national football team become the biggest loser.
Australia previously belonged to Oceania. In the previous World Cup allocation, Oceania had only 0.5 places. They need to compete with 0.5 places in Asia, Central and North America, South America, and Europe, which is at the level of Australia. How weak is it? Since 1974, Australia has never qualified for the World Cup.
Since the 1986 World Preliminaries, the Oceania Region has become an independent division. In that year, Australia advanced to the play-offs and lost to Scotland in Europe; in the 1990 World Preliminaries, Australia lost to Europe and Israel; in the 1994 World Preliminaries additional In the match, they lost to South America Argentina; in the 1998 World Cup, they lost to the Asian team Iran; in the 2002 World Cup, they lost to South America's Paraguay.
The style of the Australian national team is considered to be one of the genres of English football. The players are generally tall and strong. In order to get rid of the fate of being eliminated several times in the play-offs, they joined the AFC with 4.5 places. United. Since joining the AFC, the Australian national team has demonstrated a strong competitiveness in Asian football. The suppression of the body makes Asian opponents complain. In 2007, it won the quarter-finals and the Qatar Asian Cup in 2011 won the runner-up, 2015 Asia Cup Australia won the championship in the year, 2019 UAE Asia Cup won the quarterfinals.
In the World Cup, Australia is also going well. In 2006, under the leadership of Hiddink ,In the play-offs, they defeated Uruguay and advanced to the top 16, and have since advanced to the World Cup. If someone advances, someone is eliminated. The traditional Asian top four are Japan, South Korea, Iran, , Saudi , and , Kuwait, , , UAE, China, and Iraq have only participated in the World Cup once. Australia has undoubtedly squeezed the position of the Chinese national football team. This has even led to the weaker the national football team cannot enter the World Cup.
Australia joining the AFC is really a disaster for the national football team.
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