Chile's Performance in the Soccer World Cup Qualifiers - Dan week 11

 For every world cup, which happens every four years, there are qualifying tournaments for each continent of the world to decide which countries will enter the world cup. Chile obviously is in the South American qualifiers, as it is located in southern South America bordering Argentina, Peru, and Bolivia. For many years throughout the late 2000s and early 2010s, Chile was a South American soccer powerhouse. They managed to win two "Copa America's" in two consecutive years and went all the way to the quarterfinals in the 2014 World Cup, where they eventually lost to Brazil. Though the Chilean's team excellence was undeniable, they have sadly significantly regressed over the past couple of years. In 2016 they failed to qualify for the 2018 world cup, making it the first World Cup since 2006 that they didn't attend. Currently, the South American World Cup qualifiers are going on, and every team participating has played four games so far. In those four games, Chile has won one, tied one, and lost two, both of the losses coming at away games. They have performed very underwhelmingly and are currently in 6th position on the qualifying table, where the first five teams get in. While there is still a long time to go until the 2022 World Cup, Chile must step up their game on the soccer pitch and be able to qualify for the biggest soccer event in the world. As a lifelong Chilean and hard fan of their soccer team, it hurts to see them so much worse and in this position, because all the great Chilean soccer legends that I grew up watching are now getting old and simply cannot perform at the level they used to, so all I can hope is that we keep qualifying and leave our future in trustworthy hands.