Colombia defeated Venezuela on the last date of the South American Qualifiers heading to the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, however, it depended on a defeat or draw by the Peruvian team against its Paraguayan counterpart to access the repechage quota and have one last chance to qualify for the most important sporting event of the year.
This elimination, beyond the impact on sports development in Colombia, hits hard the finances of the Colombian Football Federation, Colombian football clubs and even merchants.
According to FIFA, the overall budget stipulated for the 2022 Qatar World Cup is $1,696 million. Of this money, 30% will be distributed among the participating federations as follows, each qualified team will receive 2.3%.
Thus, the economic losses of the Colombian Football Federation, related to non-participation in the world cup, would amount to 10 million dollars. In 2018, when Colombia qualified for the Russia-based world cup, they earned $14 million. This taking into account that as the prize pool progresses in stages, that time it reached the round of 16 where those led by José Néstor Pekerman fell to England in the penalty shootout. While in Brazil 2014 to reach the quarterfinals, Colombia's best ever participation, the Federation received USD 15.5 million.
These losses will also affect football clubs as they receive money for the players called up to the national teams that compete in the competition, provided that they comply with FIFA regulations. In 2018, for the World Cup in Russia, the value for each day of convocation was $8,530, so a player who reaches the final will represent his club approximately $350,000.
Finally, they are considered economic losses in the country's shops. For the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, according to Fenalco's report, establishments recorded sales of more than 5 billion pesos.
Many will be left wanting to see Luis Díaz play his first world championship, and now they will have to wait until 2026 to see the guajiro in the next World Cup event that will be held in the United States, Mexico and Canada.
However, not only will 'Lucho' be the great absentee in Qatar 2022, there are several world-class figures who will have to watch the orbital event on television.
It should be remembered that in this world cup we will not see teams such as Italy that has already accumulated two consecutive eliminations or Sweden, which was a great cheerleader in Russia 2018.
MohamedSalah:
Luis Diaz's Liverpool teammate in England was eliminated with Egypt after falling on penalties to Senegal, in a repeat of the Africa Cup final, and will not be able to play his second consecutive world cup. Senegal's standings allow teammate Sadio Mané to shine in Qatar.
Erling Haaland:
The Norwegian national team has not qualified for a world cup since France 1998, and was prematurely eliminated from Qatar 2022. For now we can only enjoy their goals in the Bundesliga with Borussia Dortmund.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic:
At the age of 40, he still makes a difference in Serie A with Milan, however, he will not be able to play his third world championship after Sweden's elimination that fell to Poland by Robert Lewandowski.
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