Wednesday 04 September 2019, 07:36

World Cup qualifying like you’ve never experienced before

  • We sent Kelvyn Quagraine to Mongolia for the first World Cup qualifier

  • He spent three full days exploring the country

  • Watch and enjoy the full short film above

The FIFA World Cup™ is happening now.

The competition goes far beyond the Final that billions of fans watch every four years across the globe. There are finals happening in all corners of the world throughout the qualification journey.

To bring this to life to a wider audience, we sent lifetime football fan Kelvyn Quagraine to Mongolia to take in the culture, discover a new, beautiful country before finishing with watching their first World Cup qualifier for Qatar 2022, an AFC Round 1 match against Brunei Darussalam at the Football Center MFF in Ulaan-Baatar.

Watch the full short film above to see a new side to the World Cup qualification process, where every minute matters as nations try to reach new personal bests in their dream of qualifying for the finals in Qatar.

Mongolia have made history since the recording of our documentary and have qualified for Round 2 in World Cup qualifying for the very first time in their history.

The Blue Wolves will compete in Group F, which will see them host and travel to Myanmar, Tajikistan, Kyrgyz Republic and to perennial World Cup finals qualifiers and one of the giants of Asian football, Japan.

Now that you have a clearer picture of what each and every World Cup qualifier means to countless countries throughout the world, be sure to follow along with FIFA.com all the way until we have a new champion crowned in Qatar on 18 December 2022.