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Originally Posted by kithkanan
I believe that such is the common concensus. I remember watching the game and getting upset because of the referee decisions against Australia.
Hehehe, yes they are exciting. Now I remember that you moved from the Oceania Confederation, right. Asia's more competitive, I'm pretty sure that you'll do alright for South Africa.
Here the qualifyings are bored. Playing against countries that doesn't even have fields on their own (and usually have to play in the U.S.), that's the second phase (U.S., Costa Rica and Mexico are automatically qualified to the second phase). Then we have a six-team group with two all-against-all round. The first three places qualify to the World Cup.
That's pretty good. Perhaps last team was just a one-generation gold team. Having a league and lots of competitions will assure that you'll get many gold generations; good decision. I remember back in 1993 that Canada had an awsome team, which couldn't qualify for the 1994 World Cup (at the time, Mexico did, and U.S. was already qualified because they were the hosts). Since then, Canada lost their gold generation and done nothing (a Gold Cup in 2003, but nothing else).
So good about that. The next step would be to make a World Cup on your own. I'd be pretty much excited and wouldn't hestitate on visitin the Southern Land (Australia in Latin, that is  ).
:O Have soccer surpassed the Cricket? That would really amaze me... |
We were in Oceania, which was no good for our growth, we would regularly win 20 or 30 nil against semi-proffessionals in countries like Solomon Islands and Fiji. Asia will be good for us, and I reckon our next generation will see us well, I don't see us losing too much ground as the underage teams are all doing really well. To top it off, Australia won last night 3-0 and did it easy, so I'm really happy!
Cricket has OK support during high profile internationals, but domestically nobody really cares that muuch. I'd say its still the number 1 summer sport, but theres little competition for them there (only basketball, which Aussuies don't really follow and tennis, which we only follow during our Open!)
Having said that, maybe its my bias as I hate cricket!
