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Originally Posted by GirlySports
The apathy in this thread shows that it's hard to start up something again. All momentum from 96 lost.
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I think that momentum was lost in '98, mostly because of Dominik Hasek. The 04 World Cup seems unremarkable because NHLers were going to the Olympics. It seems unlikely that they will be going to Korea and once that sinks in this World Cup will gain importance.
I agree the mish-mash reams are gimmicky, but most world cups have gimmicky teams. Soccer has sub-national teams like England and the Faroes. It also lots of mercenary players that make teams like the US half German, and Algeria half French. Rugby has a united Ireland. Cricket has the West Indies and it used to have East & Central Africa.