If you ask me, it is totally unacceptable that the world’s largest black nation with a population of 200m is not on this exclusive list. Our new sports minister should be given until 2030 to resolve this

Ayo Akinfe 

1930 - Uruguay 
1934 - Italy 
1938 - Italy 
1950 - Uruguay 
1954 - Germany 
1958 - Brazil 
1962 - Brazil 
1966 - England 
1970 - Brazil 
1974 - Germany 
1978 - Argentina 
1982 - Italy 
1986 - Argentina 
1990 - Germany 
1994 - Brazil 
1998 - France 
2002 - Brazil 
2006 - Italy 
2010 - Spain 
2014 - Germany 
2018 - France 
2022 - Argentina