the only thing im hanging on to is the fact that soccer as a sport has alot of parrody in it, its one of those sports where it is not unheard of for the small teams to beat the big teams... like i said in another thread, watch the mancity vs wigan FA cup final game last year, or the chelsea vs. munich 2012 champions league game(little less obvious) but man city should have mopped the floor with wigan, 30 mil dollar roster vs a half a billion dollar roster and wigan pulled it off to win a cup... wigan was a team being relegated and man city was 2nd in the prem  league(had a few coachin controversies but still) manC should have crushed wigan... same with  chelsea vs munich, few weeks before that they lost 3-1 to napoli and everyone thought they were done for in the champions league... then they went on a role and beat barca in barca but had to face munich for the cup in munich(its randomly chosen where cup final will be held and coincidentally, Bayren got home field advantage).. long game that some may say CFC should have lost but regardless they took it to PK's and beat Bayern Munich for the champions cup, which if u dont know is like the super bowl of soccer... point is while it would be extremely unlikely USA makes it outta the group stage,  it is possible... but i would say if u wanna watch the whole world cup, pick a back up team lol... im going with Germany and Belgium, im half german and belgium has alot of my favorite club teams stars on the rosternot to mention im a huge waffle fan.. still pullin for US while we are in it though

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