World Cup Friendlies for the Week Ahead

If you support one of the teams in the World Cup, the odds are with you this week that your team is playing at least one friendly. By my count, 29 of the 32 teams are taking part in the exhibition fun with only the United States, Serbia and Montenegro, and Ecuador choosing to sit on the sidelines. The highlight of the week ahead is my favorite team Angola battling it out with Argentina and Turkey. All the other games will be fun too even if the results don’t really matter. Check out the team blogs for coverage and thoughts about these games. Here’s the complete schedule.

All dates and times Central European Time (please don’t ask me to figure out the times in your time zone. I suck at that and I don’t know where you live - but check this site.)

29 – May
Ghana 4 Jamaica 1

30 – May
18:00 Czech Republic-Costa Rica
18:00 Poland-Colombia
19:45 Tunisia-Belarus
20:30 Germany-Japan
20:45 Chile-Côte d’Ivoire
21:00 Argentina-Angola
21:05 England-Hungary

31 – May
20:00 Saudi Arabia-Turkey
20:15 Slovenia-Trinidad and Tobago
20:30 Paraguay-Georgia
20:45 Iran-Bosnia-Herzegovina
20:50 Switzerland-Italy
21:00 France-Denmark

1 - June
19:00 Norway-Korea Republic
20:00 Netherlands-Mexico

2 – June
19:00 Germany-Colombia
19:30 Liechtenstein-Togo
20:00 Sweden-Chile
20:00 Angola-Turkey
20:50 Italy-Ukraine

3 – June
15:00 England-Jamaica
17:00 Czech Republic-Trinidad and Tobago
17:30 Switzerland-China PR
17:30 Poland-Croatia
20:00 Luxembourg-Portugal
22:00 Spain-Egypt

4 – June
15:00 Netherlands-Australia
15:00 Japan-Malta
15:00 Côte d’Ivoire-Slovenia
16:00 Korea Republic-Ghana
18:00 Brazil-New Zealand