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Even though it's still two years away, the World Cup is the tournament that every single person in the world who likes football will be eager to watch. Little kids around the world grow up playing football, dreaming to one day become a professional player and represent their country in the World Cup, that's a fact. But one thing is dreaming about it, and one thing is actually turning it into a reality. It appears that for USA legend Landon Donovan, this is not so much a dream but a true goal for his country.
The former LA Galaxy star is convinced that the United States has the infrastructure to soon win a World Cup. But the numbers and development of football in America say otherwise, it's very difficult for the US to actually defeat power houses like Brazil, Argentina, Italy, France, Spain and Uruguay at the game they have barely started understanding less than 30 years ago. But Donovan feeling confident and talking to a Mexican news outlet, wanted to look cool and just flat out say it.
"In each World Cup, to do it [win it], you need a lot of luck in addition to excellent preparation. While Brazil and Germany can have four regular [average] matches in a World Cup and two excellent ones to be World Cup champions," he told Notimex. "Teams like the USA and Mexico need to play great games and then it can happen [that they win the World Cup]. Mexico has several decades playing in World Cups and hasn't won it and the United States has only been to some World Cups. But I believe that I'll see the United States as world champions."
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