LogFAQs > #903147569

Just in time for Russia 2018!!

So after trying and failing to qualify with about 15 different teams in the last month or so, I finally got back to the World Cup with fucking Lithuania. I figured, with the steep level of competition in European qualifying, that this would be a quick out, but after struggling through the first half of the campaign with 4 draws and a loss, I won 4 of my last 5 matches to reach the playoff vs Belgium, where I miraculously won the home/away series 2-1. It was as if all the karma I've saved up getting fucked over by this game was all at once paid back to me, lol.

For those who don't know, I've been gradually attempting to qualify with every nation (203 in total) in 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil for PS3 since the game first came out, on Legendary, which is the hardest difficulty. The new 2018 World Cup add-on for FIFA 18 disappointingly doesn't include all FIFA nations, instead adding only the teams who qualified for this year's World Cup, plus the international squads already included in the main game (so there's only 50 or so total). Additionally there's not even a qualification mode (wtf!), so I'm still plodding on with the last World Cup edition.

Shoutouts to GaryOak151 for initially starting this challenge with the 2010 edition of the game.

Here's a (mostly sad) rundown of my qualification history up to this point:

(FIFA World Ranking at time of qualification in parenthesis)
Bold = qualified for World Cup
Italics = current campaign

Afghanistan (129) - Failed to Qualify, 1st Round, 0-2 aggregate vs Palestine
Angola (138) - Failed to Qualify, 2nd Round
Argentina (2) - Failed to Qualify, 7th Place, 15pts
Azerbaijan (139) - Failed to Qualify, 4th Place, 13pts
Bahamas (186) - Failed to Qualify, 3rd Round, Last Place, 3pts
Bangladesh (165) - Failed to Qualify, 3rd Round, 3rd Place
Barbados (143) - Failed to Qualify, 2nd Round, 2nd Place, 11pts
Belarus (79) - Failed to Qualify, Last Place, 4pts
Belgium (12) - Failed to Qualify, 5th Place, 11pts
Belize (167) - Failed to Qualify, 2nd Round, Last Place, 3pts
Benin (83) - Failed to Qualify, 3rd Round, 0-3 aggregate vs Egypt
Bolivia (82) - Failed to Qualify
Bosnia and Herzegovina (25) - Failed to Qualify, 3rd Place, 13pts
Botswana (91) - Failed to Qualify, 2nd Round, 3rd Place, 7pts
Burundi (125) - Failed to Qualify, 1st Round, 1-2 aggregate vs Lesotho
Cambodia (175) - Failed to Qualify, 2nd Round, 1-5 aggregate vs China
Canada (110) - Failed to Qualify, 2nd Round, 2nd place, 8pts
Chile (14) - Failed to Qualify, 7th Place, 18 pts
China (97) - Group Stage, 3rd Place, 4pts, 3 GF, 2 GA
Comoros (174) - Failed to Qualify, 2nd Round, Last Place, 1pts
Congo DR (41) - Failed to Qualify, 2nd Round
Costa Rica (25) - Failed to Qualify, 3rd Round, 3rd Place, 9pts
Cyprus (130) - Failed to Qualify, Last Place, 4pts
England (11) - Failed to Qualify, 4th Place, 13pts
Eritrea (200) - Failed to Qualify, 1st Round, 2-3 aggregate vs Rwanda
Ethiopia (145) - Failed to Qualify, 1st Round, 0-1 aggregate vs Somalia
Faroe Islands (103) - Failed to Qualify, 5th Place, 9 pts
Gambia (175) - Failed to Qualify, 2nd Round
Germany (1) - Group Stage, 3rd Place, 4pts, 1 GF, 2 GA
Ghana (51) - Failed to Qualify, 3rd Round, 0-28 aggregate vs Ivory Coast
Guatemala (91) - Failed to Qualify, 3rd Round, 3rd Place, 5pts
Guyana (153) - Failed to Qualify, 2nd Round, Last Place, 4pts
Haiti (74) - Failed to Qualify, 2nd Round, 3rd Place
Iceland (34) - Failed to Qualify, 5th Place, 7pts
Indonesia (187) - Failed to Qualify, 3rd Round, Last Place, 3pts`
Iran (36) - Failed to Qualify, 4th Round, 4th Place, 9pts
Iraq (119) - Group Stage, Last Place, 0 pts, 3 GF, 10 GA
Israel (99) - Failed to Qualify
Italy (11) - Failed to Qualify, 3rd Place, 14 pts
Ivory Coast (22) - Failed to Qualify, 2nd Place
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