![]() ![]() You don’t get to see other teams play so you’re going to be one of the first ones out there. But I think Gregg Berhalter, looking at this group, he’s going to see a path out of it, but the timing and the scheduling does play a big part in that.Īnd I think also, being one of the teams that play on the opening day will also have some impact. Obviously, it worked out well for the US when that happened in 2014 because they only needed one point out of the next two games so to get to the knockout out stages. Kyle: You like to start off with a win, just get three points under your belt. But I think it’s fair to say that there is a path out of the group, which is always going to be the first step for Gregg Berhalter when it comes to the World Cup. There’s not going to be an easy group in the World Cup. So they’re going to be coming in really playing with something to play for not just being at World Cup so it’s not an easy group. So obviously, the host nation’s going to have a lot of support and then Ukraine, obviously right now has all the support in the world. You never want to play a team that’s got all the support because there’s going to be riding that high. Kyle: I thought FOX actually made some good points. ![]() But whoever makes it out of those three teams will play the United States in that first game. But at the end of the day, I think there’s going to be a lot of people that would be hoping that Ukraine makes it from a humanitarian point of view. Ukraine, who knows if they’ll even get to play the match given the current situation in Ukraine, I hope that they do. Maybe they’ll try to do a friendly against a European team to see if they can play against a similar playing style?īut any of those three teams could easily qualify. That’s going to hamper their scouting a little bit. So the US has to wait until late June to find out which team they’re playing first. It’ll be USA against either Wales or Scotland or Ukraine. So that’s a little bit of a disadvantage though for the United States because the very first game that’s the United States plays in this World Cup will be Monday, November 21st. Every single team that has qualified for this World Cup and is about to qualify for this World Cup is a good team, otherwise, they wouldn’t be there. He says, “You could make the case that if Wales goes through, this would be your ‘group of death.'”Įngland’s a good team, Iran’s a good team, United States is a good team and then whether it’s Scotland, Ukraine, or Wales, they’re all good teams. And funnily enough, right after the draw was made, it goes back to FOX Sports in the studio and the first thing that Rob Stone says, the presenter of FOX’s World Cup coverage, the go-to guy, the Rebecca Lowe of FOX Sports. However, in this case, I think this is the first World Cup in a long time where there is no ‘group of death’. And that’s usually the first talking point where everyone zeros in on whatever group it is and says, ‘my gosh, Portugal and Germany and United States and those types of groups.’ And that’s the thing, there’s almost always a ‘group of death’. But whenever there was someone speaking Arabic or French, you could hear the translator translating what they were saying.Ĭhris: I think you’re right, Kyle, when you mentioned most of the groups are pretty balanced. Telemundo has the rights to the World Cup also. In comparison, you have Telemundo, the Spanish language broadcaster. So it’d be an awkward cutaway back to the Los Angeles studio for FOX Sports. So here’s an opportunity to go ahead and talk about the country, talk about speaking Arabic, and about different things.Īnd that was the thing though when watching it on FOX Sports, whenever there was someone speaking a foreign language, FOX didn’t have anyone translating whatever they were saying into English. They just want to find out, which teams are in which groups? But obviously, FIFA knows and Qatar knows that they have the world’s attention. I think everyone watching it just wants to watch the draw. Added to that was some really cheesy animation. Anyone who watched the pre-draw, and then watched the opening 45 minutes… it really felt like an infomercial for Qatar, how great the country is and how great it is for them to be hosting it.
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