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Barring resounding twists and turns, Italy will not be at the World Cup to be played in Qatar between November and December. Those who struggle to cope with watching a World Cup orphaned by their national team can make up for it by diving deeper into the study of the history of the World Cup, to which historical research has in recent times devoted some attention.

Our scientist Giuseppe Jurman, who has always been a soccer fan, has applied predictive models to soccer and found that...