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Their 1982 win over West Germany was so shocking it forced FIFA to make final group games kick off simultaneously.
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The 2026 World Cup brings 48 nations and 24 languages to one tournament. Glacey speaks all of them. Find your team, see the languages it brings, and pick up a little trivia along the way.
Their 1982 win over West Germany was so shocking it forced FIFA to make final group games kick off simultaneously.
Reigning champions: Lionel Messi finally lifted the trophy in 2022, their third title after 1978 and 1986.
The Socceroos famously left Oceania to join the Asian confederation in 2006, finding a tougher but more reliable route.
Their 1930s 'Wunderteam' was one of football's first great sides; this is a first World Cup since France 1998.
The 'Golden Generation' took third place in 2018, the Red Devils' best-ever finish.
Edin Džeko's nation reaches its second World Cup, after a 2014 debut where it scored but went out in the group.
Record five-time winners and the only nation to have played at every single World Cup since 1930.
Co-hosts, and only a second World Cup ever after 1986; their fans switch between English and French.
Debutants from an Atlantic archipelago of half a million people, among the smallest nations ever to qualify.
Carlos Valderrama's hair and James Rodríguez's 2014 Golden Boot are the postcards; the quarter-final is their ceiling so far.
Runners-up in 2018 and third in 2022, a remarkable record for a country of under four million, led by Luka Modrić.
Debutants and, with around 150,000 people, the smallest nation by population ever to reach a World Cup.
As Czechoslovakia they were World Cup runners-up twice, in 1934 and 1962.
As Zaire in 1974 they were the first sub-Saharan African side at a World Cup; fans here cheer in French, Lingala and Swahili.
Play their home qualifiers at Quito's 2,800 m altitude, where visiting sides routinely run out of air.
The first African team ever to enter a World Cup, all the way back in 1934, and now built around Mohamed Salah.
Won it all on home soil in 1966, their only title, with Geoff Hurst's still-debated hat-trick in the final.
Two-time winners (1998, 2018) and beaten finalists in 2022, when Kylian Mbappé scored a final hat-trick and still lost on penalties.
Four-time champions (1954, 1974, 1990, 2014) and the most reliable side in tournament history, with a record number of semi-finals.
Were one Luis Suárez handball away from being the first African semi-finalists in 2010.
Back for a first World Cup since 1974, when they briefly led eventual finalists Italy and ended a record goalkeeping run.
Their 1998 win over the USA in Lyon is one of the most politically charged matches the tournament has seen.
Won the 2007 Asian Cup as a team drawn from a country at war, one of sport's great unifying stories.
Didier Drogba's golden generation reached three straight World Cups but never escaped the group; a new wave tries again.
Beat both Germany and Spain in 2022 and are renowned for fans who stay behind to clean the stadium.
Debutants who reached the 2023 Asian Cup final out of nowhere and rode that momentum to a first World Cup.
Co-hosts and the first country to host the men's World Cup three times (1970, 1986, 2026).
Made history in 2022 as the first African and first Arab nation ever to reach a World Cup semi-final.
The great nearly-men: runners-up in 1974, 1978 and 2010, the most World Cup finals lost without ever winning.
The only unbeaten team at the 2010 World Cup, with three draws, yet still knocked out in the group stage.
Back at a World Cup for the first time since 1998, now powered by Erling Haaland; famously, Norway have never lost to Brazil.
Their 2017 goal that sealed a first-ever qualification was declared a national holiday.
Reached the quarter-finals in 2010 without losing a match in 90 minutes, going out only on penalties to Spain.
Eusébio's 1966 side finished third; Cristiano Ronaldo arrives chasing the title that has eluded him.
Qualified on merit for the first time; their only previous appearance was as hosts in 2022.
Stunned eventual champions Argentina 2-1 in the opening week of 2022, one of the biggest upsets ever.
Back for a first World Cup since 1998; the Tartan Army have never been shy about traveling in numbers.
Beat reigning champions France in their very first World Cup match in 2002, then marched to the quarter-finals.
The first African nation to host a World Cup, in 2010, where the vuvuzela became the sound of a tournament.
Reached the semi-finals as co-hosts in 2002, still the best run by any Asian nation, and built around Son Heung-min.
Their tiki-taka peak won 2010 in South Africa on an Andrés Iniesta goal, the only World Cup La Roja have ever lifted.
Runners-up as hosts in 1958, the tournament where a 17-year-old Pelé announced himself against them in the final.
One of the few nations whose fans cheer in three of Glacey's languages: German, French and Italian.
In 1978 became the first African team to win a World Cup match, beating Mexico 3-1.
Took a surprise third place in 2002, scoring the fastest goal in World Cup history, 11 seconds, in the playoff.
Co-hosts who reached the semi-finals of the very first World Cup back in 1930.
Won the very first World Cup as hosts in 1930, then again in 1950; the two stars on the shirt mark them.
Debutants at last, sealing a first World Cup after decades of falling agonisingly short in qualifying.
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