DUBAI (Reuters) - Football is awash with Gulf money, yet the region's teams will again be absent from the World Cup due to constant managerial changes and players' lack of experience of foreign leagues.
For the 2014 tournament, Oman and Qatar made the last group stage of Asian qualifying but Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates suffered abject campaigns, winning only six of 24 games after the preliminary round.
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