{"id":165239,"date":"2026-04-01T07:02:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T07:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/?p=165239"},"modified":"2026-04-01T07:02:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T07:02:33","slug":"bosnia-qualify-for-the-2026-fifa-world-cup-italy-misses-third-consecutive-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/?p=165239","title":{"rendered":"BOSNIA QUALIFY FOR THE 2026 FIFA WORLD CUP | Italy Misses Third Consecutive World Cup&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dOKK8duzzHc?rel=0&#038;cc_load_policy=1&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>Bosnia and Herzegovina have DONE IT! \ud83c\udde7\ud83c\udde6 Bosnia beat Italy 4-1 on penalties to secure their place at the 2026 FIFA World Cup. It will be Bosnia&#8217;s first time back at the tournament since 2014 which happened to also be Italy last world cup&#8230; After going down 1-0 to a stunning Moise Kean strike in the first half, Inter Milan defender Alessandro Bastoni got a red card in the 41st minute leaving Italy down to 10 men. A late goal by Haris Tabakovic brought the game into overtime where missed penalties by Francesco Esposito and Bryan Cristante helped move Bosnia forward to their first world cup in 12 years! What is going wrong for the Azzurri? <\/p>\n<p>00:00 Initial reactions<br \/>\n02:30 Italy miss third straight World Cup<br \/>\n05:30 What went wrong &#038; who&#8217;s to blame?<br \/>\n07:50 Bosnia &#8211; Group B<\/p>\n<p>Stream UCL on Paramount+ &#8211; http:\/\/bit.ly\/UCLonParamount<br \/>\nWatch UCL Extended Highlights &#8211; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLkwBiY2Dq-oYX&#8211;AqrRszzMR4_C8YwiBn<br \/>\nWatch UCL Today with Thierry Henry, Kate Scott, Micah Richards and Jamie Carragher &#8211; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLkwBiY2Dq-oYdin8WdtaOExGhaRZI_dJ8<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our other CBS Sports Golazo channels!<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@CBSSportsGolazoEurope<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@golazoamerica<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@wgolazo<\/p>\n<p>Home of UEFA Men\u2019s and Women\u2019s Champions League, UEFA Europa and Conference Leagues, NWSL, Serie A and Serie A Women, EFL Championship, EFL League One, EFL League Two and Carabao Cup, Concacaf Men&#8217;s World Cup Qualifiers and W Champions Cup, US Open Cup, USL, Liga MX, SPFL and more.<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dOKK8duzzHc\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bosnia and Herzegovina have DONE IT! \ud83c\udde7\ud83c\udde6 Bosnia beat Italy 4-1 on penalties to secure their place at the 2026 FIFA World Cup. It will be Bosnia&#8217;s first time back&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":165240,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-soccer-world-wide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=165239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/165240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=165239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=165239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=165239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}