In their third consecutive World Cup campaign, the Qatari men's soccer team swallowed a 1-7 defeat and ended up at the bottom of this year's tournament. Notably, Qatar, Kuwait, Iraq, the United Arab Emirates, and the Chinese men's soccer team make up the only Asian soccer team to have made it to the World Cup. Here is an overview of their respective records: Kuwait finished 21st in the 1982 FIFA World Cup with a record of 0 wins, 1 draw and 2 losses, scoring 2 goals and conceding 6, and 1 point. Iraq, on the other hand, had a record of 0 wins, 0 draws and 3 losses, scoring 1 goal and conceding 4, and finished in 23rd place with 0 points on the 1986 World Cup stage. By 1990, the UAE's performance was equally unsatisfactory, with 0 wins, 0 draws, 3 losses, 2 goals scored and 11 goals conceded, for a total of 0 points and 24th place. Similarly, China's men's soccer team finished the 2002 World Cup in 31st place with 0 wins, 0 draws, 3 losses, 0 goals scored and 9 goals conceded, for a total of 0 points. And in the 2022 World Cup, Qatar again ranked 32nd with 0 wins, 0 draws and 3 losses, scoring 1 goal and conceding 7, with 1 point.
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From the overall strength point of view, there is a big gap between Asian teams and the world's strongest teams. In addition to Japan and South Korea, the four traditional strong team, the other Asian teams to enter the World Cup opportunities are relatively small, often can only "go through the motions". 2002, China's national soccer team had the honor of becoming the only Asian team to participate in the World Cup. Although the situation to avoid the bottom of the ranking, but compared with the other four Asian teams, they did not score in the World Cup. With the expansion of the World Cup to 48 teams, the ranking of Asian teams is expected to decline further. So which Asian team will be embarrassed to be the first in history to finish 48th?
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