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MilitaryCrisis🇺🇸United States 🇿🇦South Africa 🇲🇽Mexico+123d ago

LAS VEGAS — As though England didn’t have enough pressure, building by the decades and punctuated by penalty-kick futility, since claiming its lone World Cup on its own turf in 1966.A data engineer compiled information, from kickoff times to travel distance, temperature, humidity, altitude, etc., to gauge each team’s group-stage ‘‘burden rating,’’ and only one side has it tougher than the Three Lions.Uzbekistan.Bob Yakubov, an analyst and soccer scout near Kansas City, where England will be headquartered, created the figures.It’s the final bit of minutiae punters might apply in their last-minute handicapping of the expanded 48-team tournament, which starts Thursday with South Africa facing Mexico in Mexico City.The Three Lions play Croatia in Dallas (June 17), Ghana in Boston (June 23) and Panama in New Jersey (June 27).They sport a 74.2 burden rating (out of 100), the Uzbeks 80. Curacao, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uruguay round out the top five.Portugal, Japan, Croatia (third four years ago, second in 2018) and Austria are also among the top 10.At the other end is Paraguay (0.0), which will call San Francisco home and play back-to-back matches at Levi’s Stadium. Above Paraguay are Mexico (0.3), South Korea (4.5) and the United States (12.7) at No.

3.9/10·Chicago Sun-Times·Kansas City, Missouri

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