Thomas Müller (4 years old)
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.
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Australia has played much better than Spain so far.
Indeed hahahaha!
CHEEEEEEEE (CHI) LEHHHHHH (LE)
Not as CHILLY as in the CHILI'S I ate in last night , or something I would say in December on an elevator.
CHEEEE as in the first part of Cheese and Le as in Let but without the t.
Thanks,
A South American
Spain have played badly but, wow. :)
Surprised me!
Thought they had a real good chance going in. Now, not so much...
Cameroon-Croatia about to start in Manaus.
Unlike the defending world champions, who entered the tournament ranked first in the world, Australia, ranked 62nd in the FIFA rankings, is the lowest ranked team in the 2014 field. That’s one place above Jordan and one below Finland.
It is a shocker.
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