On Monday, for the first time since 1958, the side led by Rob Page will play in the World Cup finals when they face the United States in Al Rayyan.
"Small nations have to shout very loud to get themselves heard in a global world," Drakeford told Reuters. Until this year, Wales's history in World Cup qualification would have given the finest Greek tragedies a run for their money as an improbable catalogue of woe. Ahead of the 1962 tournament, they lost a playoff to Spain, they missed out on Mexico 1986 when they failed to beat Scotland and in 1994 they suffered perhaps the most crushing disappointment of all when Bodin's missed penalty against Romania left them once again out in the cold.For one of Wales's greatest players, former Liverpool striker Ian Rush, that loss was the most galling of all.
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