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Iconic Footballers To Miss 2022 World Cup Tournament

Here is the list of star footballers that will be absent in 2022 World Cup at Qatar

Carrick November 19, 2022

This year world cup tournament starting with the hosting country Qatar against Ecuador on Sunday, which dates 20^th of November 2022, seems to be a notable one with number of star football players missing the tournament and Qatar’s religious related rule that shun drinking of alcohols (bear) at the tournament. Although they are much more of young rising star footballers to be welcomed to this tournament; while some debut, others return. However, with the famous players we expect to be on the pitch to make the tournament more pleasuring to watch been necessarily ruled out due to some not qualified and others been injured makes it a concern for many. Nevertheless, we still have the GOATS on the pitch (Messi and Ronaldo) though this might mark their last world cup.

The list below shows the number of football players that will be absent in 2022 world cup with the reason, the club they belong to and the country they are expected to play for.

Player Name	Reason	Club	Country
Paul Pogba	Injury	Juventus	France
Roberto Firmino	Not selected	Liverpool	Brazil
Ngolo Kante	Injury	Chelsea	France
Sadio Mane	Injury	Bayern Munich	Senegal
Erling Haaland	Country not qualified	Manchester City	Norway
Reece James	Injury	Chelsea	England
Timo Werner	Injury	RB Leipzig	Germany
Christopher Nkunku	Injury	RB Leipzig	France
Georgino Wijnaldum	Injury	Bayern Munich	France
Ben Chilwell	Injury	Chelsea	England
Lo Celso	Injury	Villarreal CF	Argentina
Diogo Jota	Injury	Liverpool	Portugal
Alphonso Davies	Injury	Bayern Munich	Canada
Marco Verratti	Country not qualified	Bayern Munich	Italy
Gianluigi Donnarumma	Country not qualified	Bayern Munich	Italy
Luiz Diaz	Country not qualified	Liverpool	Colombia
Martin Odegaard	Country not qualified	Arsenal	Norway

What next:

Although the Senegal iconic football player Sadio Mane won’t be playing at Qatar due to injury even though FIFA hope his home land spiritual leaders could heal him or quicken his recovery from the injury before world cup as reported by goal.com. However, Mane will still make appearances at Qatar.

Is this the last world cup for the GOATS? This could undoubtedly be the last world cup for Messi and Ronaldo since their ages might hinder their appearance in the next world cup. Although Neymar Jr is younger than both Ronaldo and Messi, he already hinted this could be his last world cup tournament.