The week’s lone international friendly featuring a World Cup team is hardly one for the ages, but it does offer some sentimental value for fans of the United States as goalkeeper Tony Meola is likely to earn his 100th cap. Meola and an entirely domestic-based US side will take on a Jamaica team that [...]

Over the course of the past few months, World Cup Blog has offered its infallible predictions for each of the World Cup groups. We are so confident of the infallibility of our selections that we are willing to match wits with the smartest kids on the block: Google. Google Fight is a [...]

Our Czar of the USA Blog, Daryl, must have been inspired by Mexico coach Ricardo La Volpe’s early selection of Mexico’s World Cup roster because he is ready to announce the roster for the United States team this summer. For the past week, Daryl and the blog readers have been busy helping out coach [...]

Life is seemingly blissful again in Germany where order has been restored to the universe and the country’s football team has rediscovered its winning ways. Earlier this month the World Cup host was spanked 4-1 against Italy. Today it did some punishing of its own, beating the United States 4-1 in a friendly. [...]

Economists at the Dutch bank ABN AMRO have come out with a report that says of all the European teams in the World Cup, Italy is the one with the economy that would most benefit from a World Cup victory. A World Cup championship would not only fuel Italy’s moribund economy through increased sales [...]

We’ve taken a look at the teams that impressed and distressed during this week’s friendlies, now let’s take a gander at which World Cup groups are alive and kicking, and which ones are on life support.

Forget Group C’s Argentina, Holland and Serbia, the real Group of Death is Group E. That is what a lot of people in the United States are saying after watching their team drawn with Italy, Czech Republic and Ghana. From the US perspective this group is death. From my perspective this is [...]

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