true about italy being traditionally a slow starter!
you might remember godin as the defender whose header could have won the champions league for atletico madrid. plus a bunch of others in great teams (e.g. cavani @ psg)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/foo...014-squad.html
they have *really* good players and… they still have forlán ha ha ha. tabarez was talking about putting suarez up on the first game vs costa rica, depending on how he recovers from surgery.
team usa is thoroughly fucked in that group. i have zero hope. with or without ronaldo i expect them to get creamed.
my favorite dark horse was colombia. i was hoping they'd go far-- they came in 2nd in the conmebol qualifiers after argentina, and they have a strong, solid team. unfortunately, woe is them, they'll be missing falcao who this week had to drop out due to injury. ouch! what a loss.