World Cup 2018 Russia

[Sampinjon]

Nesta just quited Miami to "seek new challenge".

[AC_Troy]

FIGC President Carlo Tavecchio revealed the choices for the Italy bench: Carlo Ancelotti, Antonio Conte, Max Allegri, Claudio Ranieri and Roberto Mancini.

Tavecchio expected to resign tomorrow

[AC_Troy]

Reports in Peru suggest their national team could be excluded from the 2018 World Cup, in which case Italy would potentially be given their spot.

[reza]

Why would Italy get a spot if Peru are suspended, that makes no sense.
Peru's gov might interfere in their Federation which FIFA forbids and if it goes that far New Zealand wold be logical somewhat, Italy would be wishful thinking

[AC_Troy]

I'm not sure. Best point differential? Italy lost 1-0 and New Zealand 2-0

[reza]

I don't see anything in FIFA rules that differentiates between games like that, they weren't in the same group or anything.

[Sampinjon]

It must be New Zeland. It's spot for South America/Oceania. Maybe I missed news where Italy moves there...
But I can easy imagine why would they give that spot to Italy. TV rights and marketing Money etc. Corrupted FIFA will certanly come out with some "Explanation"...
As Troy said about that points... hell no ,but if it is - Syria lost 2-1 with away goal sooooo they're better than Italy...
Maybe as higher placed team in fifa rank which is not on WC? Hell no... Chile is placed higher than Italy...
There is really no reasonble explanation except - MONEY...

[nefremo]

Yea....it's a bullshit article. Italy is not going to the WC.

If by some miracle Peru is disqualified, it will be New Zealand. I doubt it Peru will get the axe to begin with, but FIFA may use "little old" Peru to "get themselves out of the mud" after all the dirt that's been spread on that organization (rightfully so).

[AC_Troy]

Article 7 states “if any association withdraws or is excluded from the competition, the FIFA Organising Committee shall decide on the matter at its sole discretion and take whatever action is deemed necessary”.
That means there is no statutory obligation for FIFA to replace Peru with New Zealand, who lost to them in the play-offs, or another South American nation.
It’s explicitly stated that “the FIFA Organising Committee may in particular decide to replace the association in question with another association”, but not which association that would be.
As a prestigious nation with a high world ranking, it would clearly be beneficial to FIFA to have Italy at the World Cup.
However, any such decision is highly unlikely, almost to the point of impossibility.
The only likely reason for a nation being excluded is civil war or other conflicts which could affect the nation in question.
Yugoslavia were excluded from the 1992 European Championships when the country descended into civil war, and were replaced by Denmark.
The Danes had finished behind Yugoslavia in qualifying, and went on to win the tournament in one of the biggest upsets in modern football history.
Even if the State does take over the running of the Peruvian FA - which in itself is far from certain - it's not likely FIFA would consider that grounds to exclude them from the tournament.

[reza]

The draw is in a few minutes from this post.