Group C Preview: All eyes on Brazil, Morocco
Telemundo Deportes lead play-by-play announcer Luis Omar Tapia breaks down Group C for the FIFA World Cup. Can Scotland move beyond past World Cup disappointments? Will it be a cakewalk for Brazil?
Group C Preview: All eyes on Brazil, Morocco originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston
Video Transcript
This is Luis Omar Tapia, and this is what you need to know about Group C. Group C has a very well-balanced competition for this World Cup.
And the way I see it is because the balance, it's between Brazil, Morocco, and Scotland.
Many people will say, "No, but Scotland, you know, every time they're in the World Cup, they, they don't do anything."
Yeah, but this is different, Scotland.
This is a, a national team that qualified till the last round of, qualifications in Europe to make it to the World Cup.
And a lot of the players, they don't play just in Scotland.
They play in English Premier, or they play in Championship, so they play at a high level of competition.
Now, in this group, Haiti, you know, thank you for participating in this World Cup.
Yeah, I don't think they're gonna win a, a game.
their glorious qualification, making it to the World Cup, it was fantastic.
This is what the world wants, more countries, especially countries, small countries like Haiti, that they can show themself and expose their players to the world.
Some of them are very good players, but not enough to make it at least on, on, a, as a third place in the group.
Third place I think is gonna be a huge battle between Scotland and, Morocco.
But I think Morocco has a team that can fight hand-to-hand, punch-to-punch with Brazil because, the generation of, players is fantastic.
They play at Paris Saint-Germain.
They play in, English Premier.
They play, in Spain, in, in Bundesliga, in Serie A i- in Italy.
And, and, and this is it.
The scouting that they had done in the past six, seven years in Morocco, they have brought in players with dual or triple nationality and convinced these, all these players to play for Morocco, and I think they made a, a great decision, a lot of these players.
So that, within the game, is gonna cause a big headache on the game against Brazil.
But I, I still consider Brazil to be the favorite in the group.
They may not win all three games.
They may win two.
but that game against Morocco is going to, is going to decide who wins first place.
I still give it to Brazil.
