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"&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; Can Iceland become the smallest country to ever qualify for a World Cup? (Peter Schneider/Keystone/AP)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The final round of World Cup qualifiers is on Tuesday, and while 14 teams\u00A0have already qualified, there is plenty of drama still to come as\u00A0the\u00A0race for a spot in Brazil heats up. Here are five storylines to look out\u00A0for\u00A0before this week's matches.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Can Iceland make history?&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Talk about upward mobility. At the start of this World Cup qualifying\u00A0campaign, Iceland was seeded sixth out of six teams and ranked 121st in\u00A0the\u00A0world; now it is 37th and one win away from finishing second in Group E to\u00A0earn a place in the playoffs. Given the seeding structure that gives the\u00A0four highest-ranked teams an advantage in the playoffs, matching them against lower-ranked four,\u00A0Iceland\u00A0still has a way to go before becoming the smallest nation to ever qualify\u00A0for a World Cup. But the fact that that it's still even a possibility is barely\u00A0believable.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;So, how did a handball-obsessed nation of under 325,000 -- a\u00A0quarter the population of Trinidad &amp;amp; Tobago, currently the smallest country to have\u00A0competed at a World Cup -- turn its fortunes around so quickly? After all,\u00A0in\u00A0Euro 2012 qualifying, it only won one match.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;An investment from the Icelandic FA in 2000 helped, making available\u00A0indoor\u00A0facilities for young players and increasing the opportunities for coaches,\u00A0which has led to a spike in numbers. So has a generation of players who\u00A0have\u00A0succeeded abroad, among them Gylfi Sigurdsson (Tottenham Hotspur), Aron\u00A0Gunnarsson (Cardiff) and two Dutch-based strikers on the verge of big\u00A0moves, Alfred Finnbogason (Heerenveen) and Kolbein Sigthorsson (Ajax).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;On\u00A0top of that, coach Lars Lagerback deserves great credit. He helped Sweden to qualify for five straight tournaments in the 2000s, but\u00A0getting Iceland to the World Cup would top any of those achievements. Of course, with Sweden confirmed\u00A0as a playoff side, depending on the seedings, it would be typical for\u00A0Iceland to be pitted against Lagerback's former team.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Big-name coaches will be circling&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It seems strange to qualify for a World Cup and then decide to change your\u00A0coach but that's just what Australia has done after suffering\u00A0back-to-back\u00A0defeats to Brazil (0-6) and France (0-6). German coach Holgier Osieck was\u00A0shown the door straight after Friday's loss in France, and the team has\u00A0been\u00A0linked to two previous Socceroos coaches, Guus Hiddink and Terry Venables.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;They are not the only two men who might be keeping next summer free in\u00A0their\u00A0diaries. The legendary Italian Giovanni Trapattoni and former Argentina and Chile manager Marcelo Bielsa are currently out of work\u00A0and\u00A0could give a team a short sharp shock, while 2006 World Cup winner Marcello\u00A0Lippi, currently with Asian Champions League winners Guangzhou Evergrande, said\u00A0earlier this season that working in Australia might yet be an option.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\"Australia is a beautiful, wonderful country. If the opportunity to coach\u00A0here came up, yes, I would think about it,\" he said. Australia may yet\u00A0appoint a local coach, but you can be sure one or two teams will be making\u00A0late coaching appointments as Brazil 2014 comes closer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Gallery: Countries who have clinched 2014 World Cup berths&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Spotlight on goalkeepers at Wembley&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Beware the Polish goalkeeper at Wembley. Forty years ago, English coach Brian\u00A0Clough famously called Poland goalkeeper Jan Tomaszewski \"a clown\" before\u00A0Tomaszewski went on to make a string of impressive saves to stop England from\u00A0qualifying\u00A0for the 1974 World Cup (in the tournament itself, Poland came in third and\u00A0Tomaszewski became the first man to save two penalties at a World Cup).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ahead of\u00A0Tuesday's game, while all eyes will be on England's under-pressure\u00A0goalkeeper Joe Hart, you can't help but wonder how the Poles continue to\u00A0produce such good goalkeepers. Artur Boruc, Wojciech Szczesny, Lukasz\u00A0Fabianski and Jan Mucha (Slovakian) all came through the same youth\u00A0academy\u00A0at Legia Warsaw, whose goalkeeping coach Krzysztof Dowhan once turned down\u00A0an approach from Arsenal.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\"Our keepers were the first to go abroad and\u00A0have\u00A0great careers,\" Dowhan said. \"You can see in Poland now that young kids\u00A0running around in their shirts wanting to be goalkeepers like them.\"&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The\u00A0same cannot be said in England. In the last round of Premier League\u00A0matches\u00A0nine days ago, only three English goalkeepers lined up in England; compare\u00A0this to 15 in Spain and 14 in Italy and Germany.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; Edin Dzeko (11) and Bosnia's high-powered offense has it on the cusp of its first World Cup berth. (Amel Emric/AP)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Bosnia deserves its chance&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The World Cup could see another debutant side if Bosnia &amp;amp; Herzegovina is\u00A0able to beat Lithuania on Tuesday, and neutrals should be hoping it does.\u00A0Only Germany (31) and Holland (32) have scored more goals in qualifying than Bosnia's 29,\u00A0and its commitment to attacking football has helped Edin Dzeko\u00A0(10 goals) and Vedad Ibisevic (7 goals) become two of the top three\u00A0scorers\u00A0in European qualifying (only Robin van Persie has more with 11 goals).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The\u00A0Dragons, as the team is known, lost in two playoffs to Portugal ahead of\u00A0the 2010 World Cup and Euro 2012. After a slight wobble against\u00A0Slovakia\u00A0last month, Bosnia got back on track with a 4-1 win over Liechtenstein on\u00A0Friday.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Its best result was beating Greece 3-1 last March, marking\u00A0just the fourth time in 10 years that Greece has conceded more than two goals\u00A0in\u00A0a competitive game. Coach Safet Susic, who has been voted as Bosnia's (and\u00A0PSG's) all-time best player, is committed to attacking football and has\u00A0promised more of the same in Kaunas on Tuesday.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\"With the players I have,\u00A0there is no choice. It's the only way we can play,\" he said. Compared to\u00A0Greece, who has the same points but has scored ten goals in nine games,\u00A0Bosnia would be a welcome addition to Brazil.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WILSON: Four countries approaching their first World Cup berths&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Is the qualifying campaign even fair?&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;U.S. fans may not like to hear it, but the fact that CONCACAF has an\u00A0allocation of 3.5 teams at the World Cup is at least one too many. SI\u00A0colleague Grant Wahl alluded to this fact earlier in the campaign when\u00A0pointing out that Mexico, with one goal in its first four home games and\u00A0just one win in its first eight, could still qualify for Brazil. The system, he said, \"allows you to mess up again and again and again (as Mexico has during\u00A0this\u00A0Hex) and still have a chance of advancing to the Big Show in Brazil.\"&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Not only that, but the CONCACAF team that finishes\u00A0fourth also has a great chance of qualifying for this World Cup. In previous tournaments, that team would\u00A0face a playoff against South America's fifth best side (this year likely to be Uruguay, a\u00A0semifinalist in 2010). This time around, it plays Oceania's top team, New\u00A0Zealand, a much easier playoff.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;So, to whom would I give CONCACAF's extra place? Africa. The 52\u00A0countries that started the campaign are reduced to five, which seems way\u00A0too\u00A0low. Maybe I have not got over the African champions of 2006 and 2010,\u00A0Egypt, failing to make the World Cup in those years -- it was good enough to\u00A0reach the later stages too -- but, for me, one more African spot would\u00A0greatly improve the tournament.\n&lt;strong&gt;WAHL: American Pharaoh: Ex-U.S. coach Bob Bradley has Egypt on the brink of the World Cup&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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