With the World Cup just around the corner, ESPNFC are ramping up coverage of each of the national teams, and you’ll find their homepage for all 32 blogs here. I’m playing my part in writing for their Argentina team blog, of course, and following Tuesday’s 30-man longlist announcement, I’ve written a piece for them on why Carlos Tevez’s exclusion really wasn’t as surprising as lots of people seemed to think, why Argentina won’t miss him in Brazil, and why he’s very much not been left out to accommodate Franco Di Santo. You can read it here.