Fallout of missing the 2026 FIFA World Cup: Like Nigeria, like Italy

FIFA expanded the World Cup to 48 teams. Nigeria still couldn’t qualify. Not after stumbling against Lesotho, Zimbabwe, Benin, Rwanda, and South Africa. Not after FIFA and CAF invented convoluted, kangaroo-style lifelines to drag the Super Eagles through. Still, they failed.Then came the foolhardy petition, a desperate, comical move that finally...