Ten years ago, says Pramod Bhasin, “you couldn’t even get a cup of coffee around here.”

十年前，Pramod Bhasin说：“这儿连一杯咖啡都买不到。”

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Just before ten, sitting at her kitchen counter with a cup of coffee, she tries to concentrate on the day ahead.

快到10点了，她坐在厨房的操作台前，给自己冲了一杯咖啡，试图回想前一天发生的事情。

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Remember, it was less than ten years ago that the likes of Porto and Liverpool were winning the Champions League, Greece winning the Euros, a desperately poor Brazil team winning the 2002 World Cup.

记住，在最近的十年，像波尔图和利物浦之流都能赢得欧冠冠军，希腊获得了欧洲杯，看起来不怎样的巴西也能赢得2002世界杯。

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She looked ten years younger. "You must have a cup of tea before you go." she said.

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Notice in the table above that of the teams with the ten highest likelihoods of winning MLS Cup, only one of them failed to actually make the MLS Cup match.

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It pulled back slightly after the breakout, but rallied back and is now trading less than 1% above its cup buy point of 63.58, ten cents above the July 9 high price on the left side of the pattern.

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Five of the ten won an MLS Cup, and a sixth (the 2003 Chicago Fire) ended up losing to the team with higher odds than them that year (ironically, the San Jose Earthquakes).

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