Lopetegui on Qatar Quali: 'Life Owed Me World Cup'

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The Basque technician is already a national hero after classifying Qatar for the first time a World Cup and in record time

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“It seems that life owed me a World Cup,” concluded Julen Lopetegui while Qatar celebrated his second consecutive presence in the great football event, the first achieved on the lawn. “There is an illusion to be in a tournament like this after what happened,” the technician who was going to lead Spain on the date from Russia in 2018 slipped. Until in the middle a contract was crossed, in the ephemeral end, with Real Madrid and an inopinated dism…

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Qatar, who is trained by the guipuzcoan Julen Lopetegui, managed to secure a ticket for the next World Cup after defeating the United Arab Emirates by 2-1 and taking the first place in the group. The other Asian team that achieved the standings yesterday was Saudi Arabia, after tied without goals to Iraq. In addition, South Africa will return to a World Cup 16 years after having played it for the last time, in that case because of its host statu…

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Julen Lopetegui, a Spanish coach, is already a hero in Qatar. The former coach of Real Madrid, Seville and Spanish team has ranked, for the first time in history, the Asian nation for the 2026 World Cup, after defeating the Arab Emirates by 2-1. Sorting, because the one who played in 2022, the first one who participated, was host and did not contest the qualifying phase. The Basque technician took the reins in May, to replace in the bench the Sp…

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The selection of Qatar, led by Spanish Julen Lopetegui, did not fail and certified its classification for the World Cup of the United States, Mexico and Canada 2026, after imposing on the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday by 2-1 at a meeting in which the Qatari group made use of its strength in the strategy. Qatar, led by Spanish Lopetegui, played its second consecutive World Cup was first published in the Digital Process.