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Article: Football: Dark horses go in search of face-saving victory; SAUDI ARABIA v UKRAINE.(Sports)
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- The Racing Post (London, England)
- Article date:
- June 19, 2006
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Byline: By Mark Langdon
WHAT is it about being labelled World Cup dark horses that makes a team almost wilt under the weight of expectations?
In 1994 it was the turn of Colombia to crumble when Pele tipped them to go all the way -they went out in the group phase and Andres Escobar was shot dead for scoring an own goal.
Four years later it was the turn of Yugoslavia, who made it to the knockout stages before exiting to Holland, while in 2002 Cameroon were the dark horses, yet they never cleared the first hurdle.
And now in Germany we had ...