"Thirteen teams, seven from South America, four from Europe and two from North America entered the tournament." [Show/Hide Quoted Message](Quoting Message by _strat_ from Thursday, June 24, 2010 7:21:11 AM)
_strat_ wrote:
Lol, yeah, I heard about that. Not dozen, 16 teams I think, but only four from Europe could be arsed to take the trip. Apparently, our team had to take a ship (since there were no inter-continental flights back then) to Urugvay. They had all the practices aboard, right up until they kicked all the balls into the ocean.
And we also won our group back then, and finished third in the cup... Yup glory days.
guidogodoy wrote:
Sorry...been rebuilding yet another computer. What fun.
To answer the question, Budred, you heard right. While Becks is right about the Semi's, the reference to the 1930s is also correct. It is the first time since the 1930s that the USA WON ITS WC GROUP! You aren't going deaf or crazy, Bud.
Not to take anything away from them but 1930 was the first official FIFA WC and only a dozen or so countries participated. Still, it was an upset then as well.
