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Based on this article:

http://m.independent.ie/sport/soccer/world-cup/could-qatar-lose-world-cup-colombia-did-30343637.html

Colombia was to host the 86 World Cup, but Fifa pulled it do to various concerns, mainly security (according to the article). The US was a contender for the games. What of they were held in the US in 86? Would it have jumped started soccer 8 years earlier in the US? Would the US now be a more serious contender and considered a team more likely to break out of the group stage? Would the MLS have started earlier?
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