Dan McDonnell

You might remember in 23 at the AFCON, the players, this very famous, their anthem, they put one hand over their mouth and the other hand like a gun to their temples during the anthem to say, like, things are not good.

And then...

Understandably enough, there are no pathways, there are no training centers, there are no pitches, there are no facilities really to speak of.

Their National Federation hasn't had no leader since 2021.

So if you look up their 26-man squad even this week, 10 were born in France, five in Belgium, two in Switzerland, one in England.

You had eight born in the Congo, but most of those moved to Europe early.

So actually only two of their entire squad have played club football for a Congolese side.

So it's a strange kind of team in terms of its relationship with the homeland.

But I don't know if you've seen scenes from, you know, various villages and people just going bonanza at like one in the morning, lashing rain.

There in 1974, beat Jamaica.

Jamaica had been in France in 98.

That's 10 African teams at this year's tournament.

But that's, you know, that is a story, albeit, you know, grim backdrop.

Let's get Iraq in there, this American World Cup, for God's sake.

Final team in.

What does this tournament need?

It needs some Iraq.

So they're the 48 team in.

They've beaten Bolivia 2-1.

Their last appearance at the World Cup came, Will, in?