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U.S. team itches to get its World Cup started, already gets lesson
latimes.com ^
| June 14, 2014
| Kevin Baxter
Posted on 06/15/2014 2:13:58 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
The U.S. soccer team gathered in a meeting room at the team hotel here Thursday afternoon to watch the opening game of a World Cup it won't officially become part of until Monday, when it meets Ghana in the northeastern coastal city of Natal.
And while the Brazil-Croatia opener kept most Brazilians on the edge of their seats, it put American goalkeeper Tim Howard to sleep.
"I dozed off," said Howard,
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What’s happening on the roads of Saudi Arabia?
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Ok thank you. I got the list bookmarked.
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No problem and good idea to bookmark it.
Thanks for understanding!
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England loss to Italy need not spell disaster Now they face Uruguay in Sao Paulo on Thursday knowing the losers are almost certainly on their way out - so what are the issues to ponder for Hodgson and his players?
Hodgson should be hopeful
There is little good news about losing an opening World Cup game and England may yet live to regret the missed chances and sloppy defending that ended in defeat by Italy.
Hodgson, however, was accentuating the positive and was right to do so - while accepting it is tough to put a gloss on a result that instantly puts England on the back foot.
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LOL, a world-class paper: “figure out your own kind of piece of mind”
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06/15/2014 3:35:10 AM PDT
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UncleHambone
("Laughter is America's most important export." - Walt Disney)
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I’ll give Rooney credit for a perfect cross to Sturridge for the England goal but three World Cups now and he has still not found the back of the net, come on!
And that corner towards the end of the game? I saw a colemanball last year about Rooney that sums that up, ‘phenomical’...
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06/15/2014 3:35:32 AM PDT
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Geronimo
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Mario Balotelli was born in Palermo, Sicily to immigrants from Ghana.[7] The family moved to Bagnolo Mella in the province of Brescia, Lombardy, when he was two.[8]
In 1993, the authorities suggested he be placed into foster care. The Barwuah family gave up the three-year-old boy to an Italian foster family, the Balotellis.[7][9] His foster parents, Silvia (the daughter of Holocaust survivors) and Francesco Balotelli, who are Italian Jews,[10][11][12][13][14] lived in the town of Concesio, Brescia, in northern Italy.[15]
At first, he stayed at the Balotellis during the weekdays, and returned to his biological parents on weekends. But after a while he started to be indifferent towards his biological parents and adopted the surname of the Balotellis, and it was arranged for him to be permanently fostered by the Balotellis.[16]
In June 2012, he dedicated his goals that put Italy in the final of the Euro 2012 football championships to his foster mother Silvia, and rushed over to embrace her as she wept after the win.[7][17]
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England physio Gary Lewin stretchered off with embarrassing injury in World Cup match against Italy So what does a "physio" translate into American (grin)? My spellcheck keeps transmuting it into physic and my best semi-educated guess is that it is something like a physical or conditioning trainer for the team.
Anyway I was rooting for England and sorry that they lost, now on to rooting for USA in their match Monday.
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06/15/2014 3:49:37 AM PDT
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Roy Hodgson defends Wayne Rooney after England loss"We wanted to get Raheem Sterling around (Andrea) Pirlo because of his agility and that meant moving Wayne Rooney, and I thought he did well," Hodgson said after the Group D encounter at a humid Amazonia Arena.
"He set up the goal for us and worked hard, and did well when we moved him into the centre.
"There's always going to be one player with a big debate around him, but I think it's harsh for people to criticise his performance, because for me he played well."
Wayne Rooney Takes Terrible Corner Kick In 2014 World Cup Loss (Video)
Down a goal in the second half of its 2014 FIFA World Cup match with Italy, England needed something to bounce its way. England could not have been given a much better opportunity when forward Wayne Rooney earned a corner kick late in the game. What happened, however, was far from what his team could have hoped for.
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