Tariq Panja
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And they are going to be donning the CuraΓ§ao shirt, which I'm sure is going to be quite cool.
There's also other countries there.
Jordan, for example, they've qualified for the World Cup.
We've got Iraq at the World Cup.
Not a first time entry, but Iraq.
In my lifetime, I can't remember Iraq at a World Cup.
The same goes for the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The last time they qualified for a World Cup, that country had a different name.
It was called Zaire.
We've got Haiti, big Haitian population of the United States.
It must be fantastic because this is you being represented on the biggest stage.
And, you know, some of the matchups, some of these guys could be up against Lionel Messi.
Now, if you're a kid in any of these places, it gives you a chance to dream about these things.
Someone like you could one day do this.
It's fabulous.
So an underdog has never won a World Cup.
So that gives us a dilemma here when we're trying to pick dark horses.
But this World Cup, as we said, is different.
48 teams, three countries.
Could we have a surprise?