I knew the rest of the world had good players, but not so many different countries.
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Not me.   The american players has been inactive  for the whole winter, while the caribbean teams has just recently completed  the Caribbean world series.  Venezuela was the eventual champ.   Cuba plays all year long.   Japan and\nSouth Korea probably practiced a lot under ideal temperatures.   The USA players are usually slow starters at spring training.  This time they went straight into the WBC  and the results has been a disaster.
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Because out of those countries England is the only one known to play soccer and to have a passion for it.
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The way I see it, like for example basketball, baseball, they originated in America, and when they started holding tournaments, no other country in the world was doing it, so, I guess they decided to call it world, even if it only had local participation.
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I think it's misrepresented because of its isolation from other continents. Sports are pretty international, but not current science or art really.
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It was introduced to help those nations who were poor in tennis like China, Indonesia and Denmark
374020
if there were better relations with other countries, there wouldn't be none of this nonsense
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USA and Italy...i don't think the others are quiet good enough at this point
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Japan, USA, GB, Germany, Thaiwan... and so on
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yes but it is in a sad state...not even fielding a team for the doha asian games is a disgrace,,,,,those are decent players but hardly capable of being competitive with many other countries in asia let alone the world
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I take it you mean football? it all depends on which other teams they play against, they could play against so called lowly sides such as those from Eastern Europe or the Middle East, romp home with emphatic victories which would boost their global ranking, if they played the likes of Brazil and France etc... they would end up more like 100th in the world!
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The most profitable stock portfolios DO NOT invest in just one country.
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Favorites like Germany, ENgland, Netherland, Italy, Chek Rep., Croatia. France,Spain and Portugal will have a chance with  Switzerland and too. Less posibilities to Poland Sweden, Serbia and Ukraine
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They have good chances, but they have to be careful of Croatia and Brasil, two teams a lot more experienced.
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It's kinda simple. Europe has alot of countries which gives it a better chance to qualify in the World Cup. And also Europe's countries have very good soccer players. An example is England, England is one of the best soccer teams. England can beat brazil and Argentina and win the World Cup. All because it has good soccer players. So Europe has more countries and good soccer players.
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4 from asia, 14 from europe, 5 from africa, 4 from south america and 4 from north america and central america also 1 from oceania (some teams consist of 2 countries making 32 total countries)
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Ochoa is good but needs experience in world cup tournaments. they are played differently than the mexican tournaments.
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Ivory coast have a good team, Serbia and Montenegro have a great temperament and Mexico have a lot of talent