"It's never easy," Landon Donovan said about qualifying from the region.
Five years after qualifying from medical school, I had experienced a steep learning curve.
Confident enough that he talks of qualifying from Group D and winning the tournament.
England go into Euro 2016 in confident mood after qualifying from their group with a 100 per cent record.
Needing victory to have any chance of qualifying from Group E, the visitors almost took a shock early lead.
The United States is one of the top three seeds in qualifying from Concacaf, along with Mexico and Costa Rica.
It was a particular blow after both riders looked supremely comfortable qualifying from the three-round semi-final heats.
Finest hour: Qualifying from the group stages in 1999, beating India and South Africa on the way.
The origins of the dispute lay in the doubts that surrounded Inter's prospects of qualifying from their group.
But it's ended up as a very important draw in the context of qualifying from the group".
And they still have a mathematical chance of qualifying from Pool 4, the one dominated so handsomely by Leinster.
