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Italy's World Cup fate to be decided, Socceroos to learn final group opponent
The Azzurri are hoping to make it to the World Cup for the first time since Brazil 2014. (Getty Images: Giuseppe Maffia)
The final six places for this year's FIFA World Cup will be decided on Wednesday.
Four European teams will secure their berths in the UEFA play-offs, and two more nations will qualify through FIFA's play-off tournament.
The World Cup will be a 48-team tournament for the first time, and will be hosted in the USA, Canada, and Mexico from June 11 – July 19.
Qualifying for the biggest-ever FIFA Men's World Cup started in late 2023 and has already produced some incredible stories, including the unlikely berths of Curaçao and Cape Verde.
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Italy are World Cup royalty. Only five-time winners Brazil have been crowned champions on more occasions than the Azzurri (four). And yet it's now 20 years since Italy last lifted the trophy. Worse still, they've failed to qualify for the past two tournaments, meaning there's an entire generation that have never seen their country even play in a World Cup.
One would be tempted to go all Helen Lovejoy on it and plead, 'Won't somebody please think of the children?!' But the players already are. "We know full well that we are responsible for all those kids out there and the entire Italian football movement," midfielder Manuel Locatelli told RAI Sport last week. "We are certainly not lacking in motivation."
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