Ben Knight
writes and publishes Onward!
Snapshot of a moment: South America
On the morning of the opening of the third go-round of opening-round games, all five South American nations are leading their groups at World Cup 2010.
Uruguay is up on goal-difference. Paraguay and Brazil are up by two clear points. Argentina and Chile up by three. All five are clearly favoured to advance to the round of 16.
At a time when the six-team African challenge has all-but-pancaked. Ghana is leading Group D, but is far from safe. Everyone else save Cote D’Ivoire in last place, and Didier Drogba’s Elephants need Portugal to lose to Brazil, and have nine whooping goals worth of goal-difference to overcome. If Ghana falls to Germany, and the Serbs get a result against Los Socceroos, the entire African contingent could be extinct by Friday.
Africa’s woes have been well-discussed by now. But what is up with the South Americans?
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