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China not in World Cup, still crazy for it
cnn ^ | June 17, 2014 | Jaime A. FlorCruz

Posted on 06/17/2014 10:58:24 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper

Thirty-two of the world's best football teams are now competing for the iconic golden World Cup trophy -- but the planet's most populous nation is not among them.

Team China failed to qualify for the "beautiful game's" showpiece event in Brazil. In fact China's World Cup dream turned into a nightmare as early as 2011, when it was eliminated in a regional qualifying round.

But for all the interest in football in this country of more than one billion people, it is a huge source of frustration that they can't field a competitive national team.

"China's weakness in football is a pain point and there is certainly an ambition to improve," said Scott Kronick, President of Ogilvy Public Relations Asia Pacific. Indeed, a multitude of Chinese -- from the state president, to a Peking University student, to a Beijing taxi driver -- share one Chinese dream: that Team China will one day win in the World Cup finals.

(Excerpt) Read more at ktuu.com ...


TOPICS: Sports
KEYWORDS: worldcup; worldcup2014
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To: C19fan

Definitely lots of coverage, especially Löw and Klinsmann facing against each other (Germany versus USA). They used to be manager (Klinsmann) and assistant manager (Löw) for Germany.

Julian Green is writing daily for a German paper.


61 posted on 06/18/2014 11:11:14 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: cartan

The Dutch were in the clutch.


62 posted on 06/18/2014 11:17:17 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Berlin_Freeper
From idol to idiot in a matter of minutes.
63 posted on 06/18/2014 11:23:59 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Berlin_Freeper
Cahill Amazing Goal Australia vs Netherlands 1 -1 World Cup Brazil 18.06.14
64 posted on 06/18/2014 11:29:33 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Berlin_Freeper
It's one of the greatest World Cup scandals and 25 years on Chile return Wednesday to the "crime scene" that resulted in the South American country being banned from the 1994 World Cup.
65 posted on 06/18/2014 11:38:06 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Berlin_Freeper
Chart outlining all possible outcomes in Group G (Germany, Ghana, Portugal, USA)
66 posted on 06/18/2014 11:49:44 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Casillas makes another error and sees Spain go down 0-2.


67 posted on 06/18/2014 12:45:15 PM PDT by kevkrom (I'm not an unreasonable man... well, actually, I am. But hear me out anyway.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Chile leading 2-0 against Spain! That is not what I had bet on but it makes me happy, anyway :-p


68 posted on 06/18/2014 12:45:58 PM PDT by cartan
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To: kevkrom

The level of goalkeeping throughout the tournament, save for Ochoa’s performance yesterday, has been atrocious.


69 posted on 06/18/2014 12:46:01 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: cartan

I called it. Spain is France 2002 all over again.


70 posted on 06/18/2014 12:46:42 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: cartan

The Confederation Cup Final last year was the first sign that Spain was on the downhill slide.


71 posted on 06/18/2014 12:49:47 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

France wasn’t this bad.


72 posted on 06/18/2014 12:53:41 PM PDT by kevkrom (I'm not an unreasonable man... well, actually, I am. But hear me out anyway.)
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To: kevkrom

What was the deal with those Chilean fans storming the media center?


73 posted on 06/18/2014 12:55:12 PM PDT by dfwgator
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Yes, you did. I have an arrogant Spain fan as a coworker. A left-winger—of course he cannot be a fan of his own country. I will so torture him now…
74 posted on 06/18/2014 1:19:02 PM PDT by cartan
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To: dfwgator

Spain has fallen hard.


75 posted on 06/18/2014 1:54:52 PM PDT by darkangel82
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To: darkangel82

Spain went down the drain


76 posted on 06/18/2014 1:56:10 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Will they even show up against Australia?


77 posted on 06/18/2014 1:57:16 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

Take their passports


78 posted on 06/18/2014 2:02:23 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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Australia 2
NETHERLANDS 3

Spain 0
CHILE 2


79 posted on 06/18/2014 2:04:59 PM PDT by moose07 (the truth will out ,one day. ........dot removal in progress.......)
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To: dfwgator

They will try to win that one. Going home with three defeats would hurt significantly more than with one victory.


80 posted on 06/18/2014 2:05:12 PM PDT by cartan
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