Colin Millar
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The other favourite.
My favourite.
Let's start off though with the hosts.
So there's three hosts for this year's World Cup, as you know, USA, Mexico and Canada.
Philippe, a host quite often outperforms expectations in a World Cup for a variety of reasons.
Which would you say of those three is the best placed to do so?
Interesting.
The group that they're in includes South Africa, with whom they begin, then South Korea and the Czech Republic.
Canada, who've never actually won, in fact, they've lost all of their six previous World Cup matches, but who have in the last nine years leapt up the FIFA rankings from 120th in the world to 26th.
That's got to be for some reason, right?
What about the USA then, who a lot of people see really well placed for this home World Cup, not least because they brought in
this massive managerial name in Mauricio Pochettino.
18 months since he came in, has he had the impact that everyone was expecting, Felipe?
OK.
They haven't had an official, well, a competitive match since the final of the Gold Cup last summer when they were defeated by Mexico.
I guess that makes it hard to get a handle on how far he's managed to take them so far.
What do you think, though, is the bare minimum expected from him?
All right.
Excellent.
Felipe, we're going to hear much more from you.