🚨 Former Bundesliga coach shines: Smallest nation ever books World Cup spot | OneFootball

While most people in Europe were already deep in slumber, World Cup history was being made in Central America.

Curaçao has qualified for a football World Cup for the first time in its association's history with a 0:0 draw against Jamaica.

The team, coached by former Bundesliga coach Dick Advocaat, is thus the smallest country by population to ever participate in a football World Cup.

According to official figures, the island nation, which lends its name to a famous cocktail, has just under 150,000 inhabitants. Even Iceland is amazed: the Europeans had held the record since the 2018 World Cup in Russia. According to their own figures, around 390,000 people currently live on the Nordic island.

But not only Curaçao celebrated their World Cup participation that night, Panama and Haiti will also take part in the tournament next year.

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