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    Beware the dangers of complacency

    By Steve Davis, ESPNsoccernet

    Monday, December 17, 2007

    The details of regional qualifying for World Cup 2010 seemed to come and go with curiously little discussion or debate among U.S. soccer fans two weeks ago. Can it really be that qualifying is something we already look past with utter disregard, like some nondescript end table? Is it just something to set our drink on until the party really cranks up, say, in the summer of 2010? Maybe something that happened a few days later can prick the balloon of infallibility before it gets f ...

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