World Football

UAE 1990 World Cup Please also see my   All-Time World Cup Team Index . This is all-time team for West Asia(excluding Iran and Saudi Arabia ).  I have created all-time teams for both nations and an all inclusive team for West Asia.  Basically, I want to look deeper into the talented pools from the region.   Three national teams from this region have qualified for the World Cup Finals: Kuwait 1982, Iraq 1986 and UAE 1990. Qatar will host the World Cup Finals in 2022.   Unfortunately, none of the them fared well at the World Cup Finals.  Kuwait was better known for the incident against France in 1982. A goal scored by the French was disallowed after the intervention of Sheikh Fahad Al Ahmed when he walked down to the pitch to speak to the fourth official. UAE's World Cup Finals was remembered for conceding eleven goals.  Iraq lost all three of their games in the tournament by just one goal, and would have drawn the opening game against Paraguay had the ...

1994 Asian Games Gold Medalist Please also see my   All-Time World Cup Team Index . Soviet Union ,  Russia ,  Ukraine,      Georgia Armenia/Armenian diaspora The former Soviet Union without Ukraine, Russia, Georgia . USSR World Cup 2018  Australia ,  Saudi Arabia ,  Iran . China ,  Japan ,  South Korea . Hong Kong ,  India East Asia ,  West Asia(without Iran and Saudi Arabia) , Central Asia ,  South East Asia(ASEAN) . Central Asia stretches from the Caspian Sea in the west to China in the east and from Afghanistan in the south to Russia in the north. It is also colloquially referred to as "the stans" as the countries generally considered to be within the region all have names ending with the Persian suffix "-stan", meaning "land of". Central Asia is sometimes referred to as Turkestan.  Central Asia has a population of about 70 million, consisting of five republics:  Kazakhstan (pop. 18 million), Kyrgyzstan ...