people like to say that Americans from the 1930's are the greatest generation because they lived through the depression and then beat the Nazi's - but young folk the same age in the Ukraine lived through forced Stalinist Purges, the destruction of their bucolic countryside in the name of a crazy ethos, a noticeable lack of first-run theatres showing big-budget Hollywood musicals of the era, and the general deaths of tens of millions and . . . THEN BEAT THE NAZI'S!!
this is why I pick the Ukrainian team to at least make the single elimination round of this year's world cup -
other reasons:
1. They play in by far the worst group (my 4th grade soccer team could do well in this group - even without sliced up oranges)
2. Their starting goalkeeper has returned from injury (Note last link stolen from this blog)
3. they came out of a difficult qualifying section beating a 2002 third-place WC team in Turkey and 2004 Euro Champion Greece - obviously Greece and Turkey were distracted by their 10,000 year hatred (so eloquently depicted in the movie Troy), blog note: insert Kazakhstan joke here
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