 "FIFA U-17 World Cup 2017: With 100 days to go, an interactive look at the 24 teams that will compete in India")
Germany have never won it. Neither have Spain. Nor have England. Welcome to the world of the U-17 World Cup, where reputations built at the senior level go out the window. After all, Nigeria have won the U-17 title five times — more than any other country. This time too there will be 24 nations taking a shot at winning the coveted title, including first-timers like India, New Caledonia and Niger. There will also be some of world football’s biggest teams like Brazil, Germany and Spain. Held for the first time in 1985 — back then it was an U-16 tournament — and played every two years, the 2017 edition in India will be the 17th edition of the World Cup. Having qualified by virtue of being hosts, the tournament will mark India’s first tryst with the finals of a FIFA tournament at any age group. The U-17 World Cup will be held between 6 to 28 October, across six cities — New Delhi, Navi Mumbai, Margao (Goa), Kochi, Kolkata and Guwahati. With 100 days to go for the extravaganza, where the 24 teams will play a total of 52 games, here’s Firstpost’s primer on all the 24 teams at the tournament.
With 100 days to go for the U-17 World Cup, which will be the first tryst of India with the finals of a FIFA tournament at any age group, here’s an interactive storymap profiling all the 24 teams at the tournament:
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Written by Amit Kamath
Amit Kamath is with the sports desk in Mumbai. He covers Olympic sports like wrestling, shooting, and boxing besides also writing about NBA and kabaddi. In 2014, he was declared the runner-up in the sports category at the National RedInk Award for Excellence in Journalism for his story on Sports Authority of India's Kandivli campus where world-class athletes had to put up with appalling conditions. He was a Robert Bosch Media Ambassador in 2019. see more
