{"id":71026,"date":"2026-03-02T03:04:38","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T03:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wales-battle-to-draw-with-chile-in-fih-world-cup-qualifying\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T03:04:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T03:04:40","slug":"wales-battle-to-draw-with-chile-in-fih-world-cup-qualifying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wales-battle-to-draw-with-chile-in-fih-world-cup-qualifying\/","title":{"rendered":"Wales battle to draw with Chile in FIH World Cup qualifying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In Pool B Ireland made a bright start to their qualifying hopes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/hockey\/articles\/cx2jew0qy59o\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">with a 5-2 win<\/a> over Canada while Poland beat South Korea 3-2 in the other games in Santiago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nine teams have already qualified either from winning their respective continental championship in 2025 or through the FIH Pro League, with the Netherlands and Belgium qualifying as hosts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There are two qualifying tournaments, each with eight countries divided into two pools of four based on their world ranking.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The top three teams from each tournament automatically qualify.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The highest world-ranked fourth-placed team across the two events will also earn a coveted World Cup berth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the other qualifying tournament in Egypt, England made light work of Japan as Tom Sorsby and Henry Croft both scored twice and Sam Ward grabbed a goal in a 5-0 win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There were also wins for Malaysia, Pakistan and Egypt.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/hockey\/articles\/cwyk10p27x2o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Pool B Ireland made a bright start to their qualifying hopes with a 5-2 win over Canada while Poland beat South Korea 3-2 in the other games in Santiago. Nine teams have already qualified either from winning their respective continental championship in 2025 or through the FIH Pro League, with the Netherlands and Belgium [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":71027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[50],"tags":[5094,5589,1800,167,19688,10522,312,510],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71026"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71028,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71026\/revisions\/71028"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}