[Berlin_Freeper]

World Cup Audience in the U.S. Is Growing
Americans are increasingly developing a taste for the "beautiful game," at least when their own team is playing.

Monday night's World Cup match between the U.S. and Ghana drew 15.9 million viewers total between the two channels carrying the game, ESPN and Univision, according to preliminary overnight Nielsen ratings. The figure set World Cup viewership records for both networks.

The ratings trounced the audience for the National Hockey League's Stanley Cup finals on Friday, which attracted 6 million TV viewers. Perhaps more surprising, the viewership numbers for the soccer game had an admirable showing against Sunday's National Basketball Association finals game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Miami Heat, which attracted 17.9 million viewers.

Tweet volume in the U.S before and after John Brooks' game-winner for #USMNT .

[Berlin_Freeper]

FIFA World Cup: 'Mexican Jesus' Ochoa Frustrates Brazil
Ochoa's Wikipedia page was hacked to hail him as "the Mexican Jesus after his performance against Brazil."

Guillermo Ochoa From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Poll - FIFA World Cup: Is Guillermo Ochoa’s save the greatest ever?If you watched the Brazil-Mexico match, one moment stands out.

Guillermo Ochoa’s magnificent save on Neymar kept Brazil off the scoresheet.

[dfwgator]

[Berlin_Freeper]

Pols have their own World Cup goals

[Berlin_Freeper]

Who are "we"?...

Capello: We Can Accept Akinfeev's Mistake

[EEGator]

Thanks for all the updates/posts.

[Berlin_Freeper]

Leckie: We can beat Netherlands
"We really want to get a result so we're going to try and find the areas where we can hurt the Dutch team," said Leckie, ahead of Wednesday's Group B game in Porto Alegre. "I think if we can play as well as we did that 70 minutes we'll definitely have an opportunity to get a win."

Former Australia coach Verbeek dismisses Socceroos
Former Socceroos coach Pim Verbeek said Australia were no hope of beating the Netherlands, wouldn't score a goal and had a defence that was vulnerable and inexperienced.

Dutchman Verbeek, who was axed as Australian coach after the 2010 World Cup in which the Socceroos failed to progress past the first round, saw nothing in the new generation of players wearing the green and gold that suggested an upset was on the cards.

[kevkrom]

I wish I could have seen the Brazil-Mexico match - from the radio broadcast, it sounded like a wild one, and a goalkeeping clinic from Ochoa.

[C19fan]

Are the German-American members, of course John Brooks, of Team USA getting any pub from over there? How about Klinsmann being Team USA manager?

[dfwgator]

What a Goal By Cahill!!!! Aussie Aussie Aussie...Oi Oi Oi!!!!

[kevkrom]

Brick-by-brick is back - Gaurdian hosts LEGO recreations of (some) WC matches

[Berlin_Freeper]

Thomas Müller (4 years old)

[Berlin_Freeper]

Vicente del Bosque: 'Spain deserve elimination'
we weren't fortunate in front of goal

[BeadCounter]

Spain’s still 2 time Euro Cup Champs of Europe, nobody has done it, if they grabbed a 3rd in 2016, I doubt anyone could ever do that. They should try to shore up their losses and make that a target.

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Some news outlets suggest C. Ronaldo’s cup could be over with his injury, does not appear he is totally healthy from the game the other day.