Barry Glendenning

But...

It's an incredible thing just for them to score at a World Cup and it's something they'll never forget.

Like I always remember Ireland's first goal at a major competition, it was Ray Houghton against England in Stuttgart in Germany in 1988.

No one who saw that who's Irish will ever forget it.

And this would be a similar thing for Curaçao, a country with a population of 178,000 or something.

It covers 170 square miles.

It's an incredible thing.

And obviously, yeah, they went on to get battered, but...

I thought they did really well I think Alexander Seferin the UEFA president has been I wouldn't say complaining but he has said that this expanded format is going to lead to real mismatches and

There are teams in the tournament, he said, that would not have won a single game in European qualifiers.

And he's probably right.

Curacao probably wouldn't have won a game in European qualifiers.

But they have qualified.

They earned their place here.

They're obviously only in the World Cup because Mexico, Canada and...

the usa yes that's the one they didn't have to play qualifiers so that opened up a couple new spots that got in by the skin of the teeth but fair play to them they scored a goal against germany lots of teams don't score against germany there was a lot of uh social media chatter going around about various cities in the u.s that have the same population as as curacao and for some reason the one that jumped out at me that i had been laughing about all day is macon georgia

His goal and two assists, I think.

It's difficult to read too much into any of the performances against such limited opposition, but I suppose what you can read into is the players that didn't get a run out in this game are probably the ones that we won't be seeing much of as the tournament progresses and Germany play better teams.

Yeah, I think you're right.

I didn't see that.