World Cup Off To A Completely Normal Start

[@guguy00]

Also shoutout to AFC Group B that forced Japan to visit not one, not two, but THREE FUCKING WAR ZONES

[@tigeryo8943]

gives new meaning to group of death💀

[@SuperJNG18]

-ish. The North Korea home game got called off and the Syria home game was in Saudi Arabia. But they DID have to go to Myanmar!

[@guguy00]

@@SuperJNG18 Oh I knew about the North Korea but didn't know they moved the Syria one too. Omitted that fact because jokes

[@Nick_Cyd]

AFC should concider a neutral stadium to host a war countries' matches

[@mohamedkoblawi4175]

Syria's home games aren't played in Syria

[@HauntedBronco]

5-1 loss to Colombia is a thing that happened 😭

[@fusushui]

U gone come back and speak when Brasil practices necrophilia on mexico

[@haydaboss231]

I feel nothing but pain. I hate Gregg and our backline

[@asapaul7671]

@@haydaboss231yep, and don’t get me started on turner, horrendous goalkeeping

[@SuperJNG18]

Yeah holy fuck that was humbling

[@SuperJNG18]

@@haydaboss231Berhalter the fuck OUT, that dude is poison

[@acatwithwiskers9273]

Lesotho at the world cup would be the most hilarious thing ever, it sounds so awesome.

[@omarkn7506]

Thee funny thing is, there may be multiple minnows in the WC from CAF💀

[@raremediumdonewell]

I completely forgot that the CONCACAF-qualification would become a free-for-all, and it might become the most entertaining thing that football has ever seen. Only for Africa to become a football anarchy.

[@fusushui]

Sudan is also in the middle of a civil war 💀

[@Chippychips8-2]

Well it's not looking well for us. But we managed to get to 2021 Afcon after beating South Africa and Ghana so you never know. Though it's nice to see us up there but there are still 7 matches to go and I doubt we can keep the consistency. Hopefully we manage to pull it off because evem if we got 2nd there is almost no way we make it to the world cup by getting 2nd.

[@Z7E4]

I'm sudanese and it's honestly awful, i'm pretty sure sudanese league matches have been cancelled

[@Infimet]

@@Z7E4 yeah mate i think the sudanese league is the least of your concerns 😭 inshallah the situation improves though, it's awful to see what's going on there

[@Z7E4]

@@Infimet Nah man sudanese league was entertaining before the war

[@619Slipk]

"Which the abreviation is CAR Vroom vrooom"

[@watertoast7091]

This guy looks like an engineering major and a drunk uncle at the same time

[@PiousMoltar]

So, a druncle?

[@leonosullivan6]

'International Football Roundup' is my favourite type of Zealand video, so I'm glad they still exist over here on Zealandism!

[@NIDELLANEUM]

Nice to see a Zealandism video with a "proper" title instead of something like "what was that?"

[@SuperJNG18]

Give it time…

[@appletree13]

Nah, I like the weird titles

[@TheStuartGibson]

KZbin videos almost need the weird titles for the clicks

[@jcl2435]

I only click the video if it has a proper title or I can see the thumbnail to know waht is it about

[@TheDudeDiary]

I’m South African and I can tell you right now, NO ONE is surprised Lesotho is on top. They outperformed everyone in the last COSAFA Cup. They literally came second. We all knew they were going to place high, they’re definitely better than us and Zimbabwe. I remember the frenzy in the country during COSAFA, Lesotho was like unofficially being pushed throughout the nation as the team to support after SA gets knocked out. Lesotho is good bro, no one but you is surprised Zealand

[@sfisob8814]

South Africa is better than Lesotho we just lack consistency

[@mthokozisinkomoxulu8097]

Dikwena Held Ivory Coast 0-0 In The AFCON Qualifiers.

[@that3401]

Who tf actually takes cosafa cup seriously

[@TheDudeDiary]

@@sfisob8814 results don’t lie, we are not better, we just think we are. It’s like a - let’s say Chelsea for example, finishing below Brighton 2 seasons in a row and still claiming they are better because they are ‘supposed’ to be better. It counts for nought

[@TheDudeDiary]

@@that3401 you answered your own question

[@TDBTylerable]

Brazil being underneath Ecuador is crazy, Brazil being underneath an Ecuador that has a 3 point penalty right now is even crazier! o.o

[@queenzoroark]

I blame it on Diniz.

[@kats1646]

​@@queenzoroarkI blame CBF instead. Tite announced a whole fucking year early that he would be out after the World Cup and CBF made 0 plans ahead to find a successor. Then the collective fever dream of the idea of Ancellotti becoming the manager happened, they decided to go all in on a dumb bet and brought Diniz as interim. It's just a pathetic clown show at every stop.

[@thisguy4895]

It's probably the worst Brazil team of all time.

[@queenzoroark]

@@kats1646 I said it as a joke but I agree, but CBF itself is a joke on its own.

[@saoirse4976]

​@@thisguy4895 2014-2016 was worst, trust me

[@lhering]

I'm so glad that somebody is as excited about this as I am. I love following the qualifying from the early rounds onwards. Been doing it for the last few world cups and there's always some amazing stories that go completely unnoticed by the general public, like Syria's miracle run in the 2018 qualifiers.

[@SquilliamWeber]

That Djibouti Joke got me😂. A real thinker that one

[@guguy00]

Thanks Zea I almost forgot about Singapore getting bent over by South Korea until you talked about the World Cup Qualifiers

[@farhanatashiga3721]

Might as well let Thailand walk over you on the chance it'll get china off in an embarrassing fashion

[@albertlay8927]

Maybe interesting to know, that both Surinam and Indonesia can select Dutch players (with Sur. resp. Ind. roots or something) in their squads. You will notice a few Dutch names in their line ups, who play in the Dutch eredivisie or second tier, or somewhere else in Europe. This is also the case for Curacao and other former Dutch Antilles islands, but they don't have that many players in the Netherlands.

[@dotcom137]

Madagascar and Comoros ahead of Ghana and Mali, just normal stuff here Also the South Sudan x Sudan derby 👀

[@Chippychips8-2]

Ready to face our Southern brothers👊

[@DennisTheZZZ]

The fact that Lesotho, Madagascar and Solomon Islands all have their best chance yet to qualify for the World Cup…

[@_Jay_Singh]

I think Venezuela is the best team that’s never made the World Cup. They’re a baseball country but have had lots of good football players over the years

[@baekBlackbeen]

I think that's Mali or Uzbekistan

[@ghost.8836]

I miss Juan Arango.

[@inaki5989]

@@baekBlackbeen TIL people in mali and uzbekistan play football

[@ibrahima6907]

Mali always had really talented players tbh but they are serial bottlers

[@kostajovanovic3711]

​@@inaki5989football newbie?

[@TtSxot6]

just ordered my lesotho national team shirt they better not let me down

[@mufaromawere4819]

Never thought I'd see Zimbabwe in a thumbnail for any football video🤣

[@vvsvellaire1455]

Deadahh

[@historyofpeople]

What Website is he using

[@maxmaxmaxmax25]

Thank you for covering this I seen no one talking about these amazing matches!

[@ThaGamingMisfit]

The most insane thing in this video is the fact that Asian World Cup qualifications is almost finished. And the World Cup is still 2 years away. Wild.

[@준성이-g3l]

No, there are more rounds of qualifying.

[@Corredor1230]

As a Colombian, we are professionals at drawing anything that comes our way. Except the United States apparently

[@punchdreadnought8101]

Damn, Lesotho competing against Nigeria, South Africa and Benin for 2 spots with a largely domestic squad is just something else haha.

[@1775OldNorthBridge]

international qualifying videos are my favorite subgenre and its not even close

[@floydfanTN]

Rwanda's Striker plays for my USL League 1 side. Imagine a team with a USL 1 team plays in the World Cup lol

[@JacquesduPlessis11]

As an African, I have long held that Africa has too few qualifying spots. We have as many countries on our continent as Europe, and we have a lot of really great teams that constantly miss the world cup because of weird qualification setups, corruption, and plain bad luck when it comes to drawing groups. On top of that, most of the teams in Africa in general play at a higher standard than in many other parts of the world where there is a large gap between the good teams and the minnows. In Africa, the quality gaps between teams is much smaller, which means that really good teams can miss a world cup by having one below average game. For example, there is no reason to me why a team like Angola, has only been to one world cup. Or why either a team like Senegal or DR Congo won't go to the world cup because they both were drawn in the same group. Edit: and as a final point - because of the limited spots Africa is alloted, we almost never get a feel good story like Lesotho (who had a great Cosafa cup), qualifying for the world cup like in other parts of the world where it's great to see someone like Panama qualifying for example.

[@munasibhoque2785]

All things considered, Bangladesh had some decent performances at home this time around (according to Bangladesh standards), holding Australia & Palestine to 2 & 1 goals respectively and drawing Lebanon, ignore our away record 👀

[@huykim4663]

With the Palestine pulling a Leverkusen

[@andresmartinezramos7513]

The away games didn't happen

[@reececoetzer6690]

Interesting thing is that Lesotho plays their home matches IN South Africa which means we only have 2 away matches and 5 home matches left

[@mouna5252elle]

"Home"

[@SuperJNG18]

I get happy hearing the little African countries get shout-outs. One of my best buddies is from Togo.

[@M_Uzi05]

15:38 Maaaaan, W** happened to Peru? They were really good..

[@Kostea_03]

Bro is such a nerd that he makes a video after 3 matchdays in groups with 6 teams in Africa, but i love it)

[@NoLuckJKMY807]

12:01 It's worth mentioning that Malaysia still has a very slim chance to advance to the third round of the World Cup qualification, but ONLY if Malaysia is able to overcome the massive goal difference between them and Kyrgyzstan (which is eight goals in total). And the only way for them to advance further is to obliterate Chinese Taipei by eight goals and hope that Oman will beat Kyrgyzstan in the final group match (though five to seven goals is fine, but they have to hope Oman beating Kyrgyzstan with a bigger scoreline if they didn't beat their opponent 8-0). Fortunately for Malaysia, as they are playing in their home ground in the final group match, so did Oman.

[@Aezen15]

maqwell is probably begging for a miracle in that vietnam group

[@samtheman1893]

The thing that should be mentioned about Libya and Sudan is that whilst their national sides aren't great, their domestic leagues are amongst the stronger ones in africa, which does give them an advantage, particularly when other teams don't have their strongest squads available

[@samtheman1893]

well in the case of Sudan it's basically just two clubs, but they do consistently do well in continental comps

[@mouna5252elle]

No they arnt

[@maxl.b.m.y.g.5918]

10:47 YESSSS HE’S BACK

[@keatonlibengood7738]

Cayman Islands got their first world cup qualifying win ever !! Also check out Aedon Scipio from Anguilla, his hair is so long he has a waist band to tuck it into

[@SamButler22]

I understand that CONMEBOL is generally regarded as the toughest qualification path, but you'd think Suriname would fancy their chances if they moved back to their home continent. Hell, they might even get their best players to chose them rather than the Netherlands if they have the opportunity to play Argentina and Brazil every couple of years

[@eyobelberhe9641]

God the pronunciation of those countries😂😂😂😂. Appreciate the consistent content brother

[@mattshark7665]

I have actually been to Mauritania. I sadly didn’t buy their national shirt at the airport and I hugely regret it l.

[@cathalmp]

Nigeria have just lost to Benin lol. Also, just discovered this channel it's great stuff, right up my street

[@peterplayz7215]

What is that website called?

[@Avianics]

🇵🇷 Vamos Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 This squad/pool has a lot of potential with Jeremy de Leon in Real Madrid Castilla, but Ancelotti liking his work ethic so he trained with the main team in Spain & traveled with them even tho he couldn't play Antonetti scored vs Atletico de Madrid in January in Copa del Rey which was a nice 3 Kings day present in Puerto Rico & was his teams tied top scorer with La Liga teams looking at him & at lot of guys also taking the chance on MLS Academies like Wilfredo Rivera & Colby Quiñones also there is randomly 1 Puerto Rican in Botafogo 🤣

[@Chippychips8-2]

It is always nice to see my country stil on top after 3 matches ahead of Senegal. But looking at our performances and the sitiuation with the Eisa brothers as well as the condition of the country, I doubt we will be able to keep this consistency for the upcoming 7 matches. But hopefully we pull it off. Also, I don't think our match against South Sudan will be heated. We are actually somewhat chill with them right now.

[@reecevanwyk2579]

I'm South African, and I am definitely not nervous 😅😅😅

[@sfisob8814]

Hugo Broos is cooking😂😂

[@pbsmoothie7281]

Haha me too bru 😂

[@that3401]

Same if we learn to convert our chances when we have them we'd be comfortably be top of the group

[@reecevanwyk2579]

@@that3401 We cannot lose to Zim at home, surely? If we do we honestly don't deserve to go to the wc😂

[@superfrank2684]

Is it just me or did the zealandism videos get quieter? I always need to turn the volume up to actually hear it at roughly the same level as other videos. Just noticed cause i did hardly hear it when it came up while gaming while all other videos have been fine to understand.

[@williamcross210]

No, I agree it is quieter. I think he moved the microphone back a little when he set up the new desk

[@Damp-Demetrius]

big up lesotho

[@asajlasa9476]

Idk if its just me, but he is fastttt talking this video, feels like the moustache is gone to get the white powder better

[@ernesto8738]

"sudan used to be bigger" that's the IR technical term, good job zealand

[@samuelschonenberger]

You said "Nein, as in No in German" and then I dropped my medicine and shouted instinctually "Nein"

[@apolloskye17]

Zealand talking about Pakistan football and cricket before GTA 6 😂

[@seanbutnotasheeple2090]

Best game I ever watched Live and in person... South Africa vs Brasil @ Olympics 2000 in Brisbane. 4-2 Sth Africa won. Was brilliant.

[@ninadrahman6258]

As a Bangladeshi I have to agree our team is very bad 😅 so the draw was quite surprising. Hopefully when I'll be old and dying we'll play in the world cup 😂

[@iambicpentakill971]

I love your optimism 😆

[@MagnusTarquinius]

Ahh yes, Lesotho are for sure the dark horses (Edit) Can someone tell me what application he is using for reviewing the table?

[@DansBoringChannel]

It's the website Flashscores

[@raferum]

Website called flashscore

[@joshbrain3295]

Flashscore

[@MagnusTarquinius]

@@joshbrain3295 Cheers mate!

[@extremeterrainwrestlingrob1660]

Whoever wins Lesotho vs Rwanda means their top of the group first the next 9 months. Which means until mid-2025.

[@Protiger_gaming]

Report from three weeks after the video was posted: Lesotho is 4th 😢

[@Keegan3]

People talking about the title but thats what these videos are about, they are meant to be unfiltered 😂

[@thandowriting5120]

as a proud sierra leonean, we can dream of beating egypt haha

[@mouna5252elle]

You're a rare pearl my friend thats all i can say

[@jacoblind5390]

Will you keep us up to date on Oceania qualification when it begins in September

[@Bolor30]

Suriname and Curaçao might actually have a chance to progress.

[@thefmi5209]

More of these please Zee - love WCQ news!

[@overcompensate.]

what website are you using?, looks intresting

[@LGSkipper]

Lightning Mcqueen should be the mascot for Vroom Vroom FC

[@scpjack7856]

“South Sudan split from North Sudan, I’m not exactly sure why.” “Ok so there was this movie called ‘Oceans 11’…”

[@PunnyPanther]

The most insane thing is that Zealand has not built his background yet (PS go for a run!)

[@Adam-l2g]

These videos are just gold

[@freddtheredd]

My dad was asking me how Lesotho is on the top of the log while there is South Africa and Nigeria who made it to the semi's of the afcon crazy.

[@TheDudeDiary]

He should have watched The COSAFA Cup where they outperformed the hell out of everyone and placed second. Lesotho is a better team than South Africa, period.

[@AfricanCorn-np8jt]

​@@TheDudeDiary nobody takes cosafa cup seriously every team send in B teams apart from weaker countries like Lesotho

[@freddtheredd]

@@TheDudeDiary crazy opinion

[@perkkie]

volume's been low for a few videos now, idk if that's just me

[@why772]

tried turning it up perhaps?

[@perkkie]

@@why772 no shit, genius

[@ofallsadwords3207]

I went on a 36 hour trip to a NWSL game out of state and I missed six videos on this channel 💀

[@Stryth]

The mic is really low... have to turn it up real high to hear the video

[@miscellaneoussarnian5282]

5:20 Actually, there’s also San Marino (who tries to compete in UEFA and FIFA tournaments) and Vatican City both inside of Italy. But Lesotho is the largest, most populated and the only one out of three that isn’t considered a “microstate” 🇱🇸🇸🇲🇻🇦

[@mnm1273]

He said, "I believe it's the only example where it's not a micronation". They're both micronations.

[@miscellaneoussarnian5282]

@@mnm1273 regardless, there’s a huge difference between Microstates and Micronations

[@TheNewMode]

Anyone know what website this is? I’d love to go have a look In a week or 2

[@majestic6265]

you can just search up caf world cup qualifying, but after june 11 youll have to wait until 2025 for the next matches to start

[@jimgraley5009]

Crazy to think that Lesotho is 3 spots ahead of south africa even though their land is inside them

[@wJacko]

What website is this?

[@joelroman-mk5le]

I'm south African and didn't even know Lesotho had a national team 😂 well done to them 🫡

[@threemonk]

"lesewto"😂

[@Zealandism]

Google how to pronounce it I dare you

[@threemonk]

Oops, where im from we say it diffrent

[@Giratina143]

what website is that?

[@MichaelOcherz]

I'm just surprised these groups aren't regional. Surely the budget of the FA of Eswatini is not so big that flying a team to Libya is not a massive, massive expense?

[@Life_Inspection]

Bro I'm hungry and have nerve damage, hope you're well.

[@anotherasapchannel]

as a salvadoran i have no hope that we’ll even get through the second round. we haven’t won a game in 2 years! we couldn’t even beat BONAIRE in a recent friendly. so i’m not expecting much for these last 3 games.

[@amarezzedine]

What website were you using to see the tables?

[@farhi411]

They just changed the name of the website but just search soccerstand and you'll find it

[@farhi411]

Now it's called flashscore

[@joshbrain3295]

Flashscore

[@historyofpeople]

Which website is he using?

[@codenamerishi]

how come puerto rico has its own team? isn't it part of USA?

[@Keegan3]

Zealand fix your desk 😂

[@BoringExtrovert]

As a Syrian, the loss against North Korea was quite embarrassing and the team is at high risk of elimination. The team only had to draw to advance to the next stage, but they lost and now have to beat the mighty Japan or pray North Korea choke their Myanmar matchup

[@beugiehowser]

I think you pronounced about 5 countries names right so 4 more than most American's

[@mouna5252elle]

How about the 5-1 😊

[@historyofpeople]

What site is he using?

[@vesha6274]

Flashscore

[@shafiulbariswachchha3890]

C'mon man, we're trying our best out here man... - Bangladesh football team

[@kalmenbarkin5708]

Really rooting for a US vs Afghanistan matchup at the WC

[@M_Uzi05]

6:56 Blasphemy right here

[@nubis11]

Why does no one talk about Curacao i think they already secured their spot to the next round and they have some ballers

[@ninjabathat2792]

el salvador are beyond cook, we are cremated havent won a game in 2 years, 23 games winless havent beaten an island team since 2021 which was st. kitts which was during the 2022 wc cycle

[@Rikoman17]

Equatorial guinea should still make it in the second place hopefully 😅

[@LUISATR23]

I have hope with what my national team is cooking 🇵🇷

[@luissosa320]

Vamos Venezuelaaa!!! Youre a cool guy!!! 😎😎😎

[@NoName-sz5lu]

Ouch!! That hurt. I know we are bad but I'd take 2-0 loss against Australia rather than 10-0 that everyone was expecting in the recent match.

[@SuperJNG18]

More titles like this, please! I don’t much care for the clickbait titles. We fans are going to watch no matter what they’re called, you mustn’t try too hard cuz it doesn’t really capture the personality of the video otherwise.

[@Cradien]

Sorry clickbait on the internet is here to stay, it works

[@adamthecailler1]

"Vroom vroom"

[@يوسفعمارنة-ش9ت]

african football is cursed af lol