Great teams that were left without playing a World Cup

Spain

The Spanish team decided not to participate in the first edition of a World Cup, Uruguay 1930. Although the official reason was the high cost of traveling to Uruguay, the host country of the event, although this absence was actually due to the boycott of most of the European teams. for the election of the South American headquarters. This would be the first of the Spanish absences. The 1938 appointment also did not have the Selection due to the Civil War. Later, he did not participate in two World Cup events in the 50s, of the last century. In 1954, Turkey would be in charge of cutting us off, with the invaluable help of Franco Gemma, chosen as the innocent hand. After the tie at 2-2, in the playoff match between Turkey and Spain, held in Rome, the hand of the Italian boy decided that the World Cup place would go to the Turkish team, after pulling the paper of Turkey out of a hat. The last absence was in 1958, on this occasion a bad qualifying phase in a group with Scotland and Switzerland prevented the Spanish presence in Sweden.