The Colombian National Team hopes to finish this triple qualifying date in the direct qualification positions for the Qatar 2022 World Cup. For that, it has to beat Ecuador this Thursday, in a match on date 12 of the South American qualifiers.
The truth is that today, Colombia occupies fifth place in the standings, which would leave him in a playoff position, which means a second chance to qualify for Qatar 2022 if he does not make it among the four best in Conmebol.
If the National Team finishes fifth, what rival would it have in the World Cup playoffs? To complete the list of 32 qualifiers for the Qatar World Cup, four teams from different continents will be able to play round-trip matches to fight for the last two places in the World Cup.
As of today, there are only 29 tickets to the World Cup: Qatar is already classified as the host country; while in Europe the national teams of Germany and Denmark have already ensured their presence.
The teams that will be in the playoffs would be: the fifth from South America (today Colombia), the fourth from Concacaf (provisionally, Canada), the duel between the two third parties in Asia (today Oman or Lebanon), and the winner from Oceania, in where the competition has not started yet but it could be New Zealand.
However, FIFA has not defined the date of the draw to accommodate the playoff brackets. So it is still not certain which would be the rival of Colombia, or the South American team that finishes fifth in the Elimination Round.
In the last three World Cups, the South American team in the repechage has had to face rivals from different continents: for 2018, Peru had to face New Zealand (Oceania); in 2014, Uruguay surpassed Jordan (Asia); while for 2010, Uruguay had to, as a representative of Conmebol, contest the place in the World Cup against Costa Rica (Concacaf).
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