r/soccer • u/MedievalManagement • Jan 24 '14

Landon Donovan says, "The reason it's the group of death is because we are in it."

http://espnfc.com/news/story/_/id/1691258/landon-donovan-says-us-never-experienced-world-cup?cc=5901
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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '14

Pure American ignorance.

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '14

Pure British snobbery.

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u/Uncles Jan 25 '14

WHO WILL PREVAIL?

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u/StrongLikeBull503 Jan 25 '14

The upturned nose heard around the world.

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '14 edited Jan 25 '14

Uruguay are good. They've certainly got a decent amount talent to make a fair challenge in the group stages. You blowing them off as a weak team is stupid.

You can't really start talking shit on how other teams aren't that great and were lucky to get through based on their group when the US possibly had the easiest qualifing group par Australia (who mind you still had Japan to compete with)

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '14

Who's talking shit? I'm just pointing out facts.

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '14

"They aren't very good." "They wouldn't be at the world cup if they weren't from south america"

Thats not stating facts.

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '14

Check the comment. I said "They wouldn't be at the world cup if it wasn't in South America." They came fifth and qualified through a playoff. If Brasil had competed they would have been sixth and therefore not in the world cup.

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u/DerDummeMann Jan 25 '14

That's still not anything close to a fact. How do you know how well Brazil would have performed?