Yes, USA soccer is much improved over the past several years. However we are in group with England, who seems to be very good right now. Which means the most likely result is second in group C. And the most likely result of second in group C is a first round match against Germany, and a probable exit. But I guess you never know.

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USA soccer might not be that bad, but I think they are really going to suffer over injuries. I don't think they are in their best form this year, even though they are getting better in terms of world level play.

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I'll still be cheering them on. GO USA!

I do hope for some good games, though. We'll see how many I actually get to watch.

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There is a rather interesting and lengthy article in the NY times magazine describing how the Dutch go about producing excellent soccer players, and what they do differently than the Americans. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/06/magaz ... jax&st=cse I think it comes down to the idea that the Dutch take soccer talent seriously starting at an early age. Perhaps there's a lesson there to be learned for us go players. Or maybe we've already made up our mind.

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Watched the SA - Mexico game thanks to ESPN3's online service. The first half was pretty dull (and it felt Mexico deserved better than 0-0 in this half) but the second half was very enjoyable (and it felt Mexico slipped up more often in this half and gave SA too many chances). Overall I also thought the game was very clean and it seemed both sides were amicable towards each other. I was also impressed by the SA's goalkeeper .

Mexico will rue the four clear chances they spurned in the first half. SA got back into the game in the 2nd half, and scored a cracking opening goal. However, after this, they lost their discipline, started getting cute, and gave away too much possession. The coach will have been doing his nut, considering how patient they were in first 2/3rds.

In the end tho, it was an appalling defensive blunder by the #4 that gave away the equalizer (the rest of the defence had moved up, playing offside, while #4 seemed to be on a different script), from a nothing position. A draw is probably a fair result, but South Africa really needed this win. Beating France or Uruguay is a really tall order (not that Mexico was easy).

Other comments: SA seemed really nervous, the crowd didn't really help them much in this game. The opening ceremony was really feeble, has their been a worse one in recent times?

Ah the delight of summer vacation...now watching France vs. Uruguay about to start; prediction: 2 - 0 in favor of Uruguay .

I will be cheering on the US team, but my friends want to watch the US games at a Minneapolis pub aptly named "Brit's."

If the US gets eliminated before the final then I would cheer for Germany, but after reading the article, a Dutch win would be exciting as well.


Lucky guy!

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Okay, france vs. uru is over for almost 2 hours and I'm still disappointed by their play
After Henry got in the game I thought france could do...

I really thought that the only reason for which one could stand a game of French team was that you were french (the same for Italy)

Anyone have predictions on tomorrow's matches?

South Korea vs Greece
England vs USA
Argentina vs Nigeria

I'd say South Korea vs Greece = 1-0 with a late goal by South Korea

The others are too difficult, but I'll be rooting for USA, so I'm hoping it's something like a 2-0 victory(hahaha, good luck with this). As someone who wants an entertaining game though, I hope it's an exciting game(very close most likely) regardless of the winner.

The last game I have no idea about but I assume Argentina will probably win, just by the overall popularity in their respective countries of this game.

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You have to admit though, Henry calling handball was pretty hilarious. I'm sure he, of all people, knows what a handball looks like.

Also, watching Uruguay turtle after they got widdled to 10 men was fun too .


Predictions:
S.Korea 2 : 1 Greece
England 1 : 2 USA
Argentina 2 : 0 Nigeria

People think I'm crazy for the first two .

Also:

No idea at all

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I thought we only had those here.

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I just hope the US has a good showing this year. I'm definitely looking forward to us upsetting England! Man, that would be awesome!

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Haha, I like it. Looking forward to watching the USA v England match tomorrow with some buddies. Right before a LAN party.

Tomorrow is going to be a good day.

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Sure, I can predict:

South Korea 1 - 1 Greece
England 2 - 0 USA
Argentina 2 - 1 Nigeria

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My bets:

South Korea 2 - 0 Greece (greece with two strikers oO that cant work)
England 2 - 1 USA (although I'm rooting for USA )
Argentina 3 - 0 Nigeria (Messi will completely annihilate Nigeria :X)

Gogogo in 5 mins the kickoff between Kor and Greece ^_^

Nice . It was a very exciting game (obviously biased answer from me, but when you compare it to the France vs. Uruguay game...), but I don't think it was necessarily because Korea played very well that gave them the victory, but rather because Greece played a very disappointing game. I think that first fast goal from Korea tilted them too much? I thought Korea's defense wasn't consistent, cracking a bit in the 2nd half (maybe we can learn a thing or two from Uruguay?). Seems we gave away too many corners too. However I thought the teamwork and passion shined for my team . Park Jisung's goal was pretty sick as well.

Extremely tired for staying up to watch the game, but gotta watch the next two, especially England vs. USA .