The Best Football Players Who Will Miss World Cup 2022 in Qatar

Just a few days before a World Cup 2022 start, the list of unavailable football players is getting longer. The newest addition is Sadio Mane, the striker of the Senegal national football team, who will miss the tournament due to an injury to the head of the fibula bone in his lower right leg, as his country’s federation announced on Thursday. Unfortunately, he is not the only star to miss a forthcoming World Cup. For all lovers of the most important of the less important things in the world, here is the complete list of the best football players who will miss the most important football event this year because of injuries and suspensions.

Group A

Senegal (Sadio Mane, Bayern Munich, tendon injury; Bouna Sarr, Bayern Munich, knee injury; Keita Balde, Spartak Moscow, doping suspension)

Netherlands (Georginio Wijnaldum, Roma, shin injury)

Group B

Iran (Omid Ebrahimi, Al-Wakrah, groin injury)

England (Ben Chilwell, Chelsea, thigh injury; Reece James, Chelsea, knee injury)

United States (Miles Robinson, Atlanta United, ankle injury)

Group C

Argentina (Giovani Lo Celso, Villarreal, thigh injury)

Saudi Arabia (Fahad Al-Muwallad, Al-Shabab, doping suspension)

Mexico (Jesús Manuel Corona, Sevilla, broken leg)

Group D

France (Karim Benzema, Real Madrid, thigh injury, N’Golo Kanté, Chelsea, thigh injury; Paul Pogba, Juventus, knee injury; Presnel Kimpembe, Paris Saint-Germain, hamstring injury)

Denmark (Nicolai Boilesen, Copenhagen, knee injury)

Group E

Germany (Timo Werner, RB Leipzig, ankle injury; Marco Reus, Borussia Dortmund, ankle injury)

Japan (Yuta Nakayama, Huddersfield Town, ankle injury)

Group F

Canada (Doneil Henry, Toronto FC, hamstring injury; Maxime Crépeau, Los Angeles FC, leg fracture)

Group G

Brazil (Philippe Coutinho, Aston Villa, hamstring injury)

Group H

Portugal (Diogo Jota, Liverpool, calf injury)