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World Cup Daily: Socceroos through with Ecuador and how about an even bigger World Cup?
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The knockout round is beginning to take shape as DAZN News rounds up the biggest stories from the World Cup on Friday, June 25.
Jesse Marsch demands improvement after Swiss defeat
Aussies rule and Ecuador through
The Round of 32 continues to build and overnight, we saw more names punch their ticket to the next stage.
The USA had already qualified before last night's defeat to Turkey, but they'll be joined in the knockouts by Australia, who managed to finish above Paraguay and go through from Group D.
Over in Group E, Ecuador finally came to the party and defeated Germany and joined the Germans as well as the Ivory Coast in qualifying from that pool.
Rounding off the evening, the Netherlands and Japan booked their places, along with Sweden in third from Group F.
Sunderland's stars
Bet you didn't have this on your World Cup bingo cards. No Premier League team has had more goal scorers at this year's finals than Sunderland.
Nilson Angulo's goal for Ecuador on Thursday means he was the fourth Black Cat to net, alongside Brian Brobbey, Granit Xhaka and Wilson Isidor.
Only Real Madrid and PSG have had more players score than the North-East side.
2038 to be even bigger?
You think this World Cup was big? Well, you ain't seen nothing yet.
The US have already floated the idea of expanding the tournament yet further as they contemplate a bid to host the 2038 finals.
As futuristic as that sounds, a host has yet to be named for the competition and the head of the tournament taskforce for the States believes America could cope with a 64-team World Cup.
It sounds farcical, but at least Italy would have a shot of making it to the tournament.
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