Jordan

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  Jordan's first-ever World Cup ended in the group stage with three defeats from three — 3-1 to Austria, 1-2 to Algeria, and 3-1 to a Lionel Messi-led Argentina — and they were already mathematically out before that last game even kicked off. For a country that had never played a single minute at a World Cup before this summer, the results were always going to be secondary to being there at all.
• 2
  The high point came in the very first match: Ali Olwan scored Jordan's first-ever World Cup goal against Austria, racing onto a counter-attack and finishing calmly off the far post. It's a genuine piece of history — the first line in a chapter of the record books that, until this year, didn't exist for Jordan.
• 3
  There isn't really a low point to single out beyond the draw itself — landing in a group with Argentina, the reigning champions, was always going to be brutal for a debutant nation, and Jordan competed without ever being disgraced.
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  Ali Olwan is the name to know — a 26-year-old striker who scored a hat-trick against Oman to clinch qualification in the first place, then became Jordan's first-ever World Cup goalscorer, capping a qualifying campaign in which he was one of the top scorers across the whole of Asian qualifying.
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  Jordan go home with zero points but a permanent place in their own football history — first World Cup, first goal, first taste of the biggest stage there is. Whatever comes next, nobody can take that away from this squad.