REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- PSSI General Chairman Erick Thohir voiced confidence that the Indonesian national team can compete in the third round of qualifying to win tickets to the 2026 World Cup.
“Nothing is impossible if we want to try (to qualify for the 2026 World Cup),” Erick said via his personal Instagram account @erickthohir, which was monitored in Jakarta on Friday (14/6/2024).
He explained that Indonesia became the only representative from the Southeast Asian region to join 17 other countries in the third round of the 2026 World Cup qualification of the Asian zone.
The 17 countries are Qatar, Kuwait, China, South Korea, Iran, Uzbekistan, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Australia, Japan, Oman, Kyrgyzstan, Iraq, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Palestine.