What Players Should Really Be Going to Brazil?

Tell us the worst team omissions and your post could be featured on ESPNFC.com

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Eddie Johnson not making the cut for the United States? Or how about Premier League title winner Samir Nasri being snubbed by France?

Given that there’s only room for 23 players on every World Cup squad it’s inevitable that some players will fail to make the grade, but you could make a trophy-winning XI from those not on the proverbial plane to Brazil.

We smell controversy—and so we come to the latest ESPN FC World Cup writing prompt:

With the World Cup team roster announcements, which players should really be going to Brazil and who should have been left behind?

Tell us by submitting your answer to the ESPN FC World Cup Collection on Medium. If we like your story, it could be featured on ESPNFC.com!

About ESPNFC World Cup on Medium

Medium has teamed up with ESPN FC to create a first of its kind online forum for soccer fans to write and read about World Cup.

The ESPN FC World Cup Collection is all about your voice, your opinions, your stories. If you’ve got something to say about the World Cup, this is where you’ll want to say it.

Every few weeks we provide a new prompt to help spark your ideas. Use the title of this post for inspiration, or any of the previous ones listed below:

  • Is Champions League a Truer Test of the Best in Soccer Than World Cup?
  • Is MLS helping U.S. World Cup chances, or hurting them?
  • What would it take for the U.S. to win a World Cup in your lifetime?
  • Who will win it all in Brazil?
  • What Is your most unforgettable World Cup moment?
  • Why does the World Cup matter?

Anyone can publish stories in the ESPN FC World Cup Stories collection. We’ll be reading. If we really like your post, we’ll add it to the ESPN FC Editors’ Picks collection, which will be featured on Medium and ESPNFC.com. Will yours go viral?

Get in the game. Register and post your stories in three easy steps.

  1. Sign in to Medium with Twitter
  2. Write your story
  3. Submit to the ESPN FC World Cup Stories collection

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