Expanded World Cup; same old story as Europe dominates quarter-finals
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The expansion of the World Cup to 48 teams has offered more of a chance to continents that were previously underrepresented at the tournament, but a glance at the quarter-final line-up tells a familiar tale.The 2002 World Cup remains an outlier, when only four European teams made the quarter-finals.
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