Posted on 06/20/2014 1:01:30 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
SAO PAULO – Striker Jozy Altidore will miss the U.S. national team’s World Cup match against Portugal on Sunday with a strained left hamstring, a U.S. Soccer Federation spokesperson confirmed.
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A hero of Italy’s 2006 World Cup win, he has also racked up five Serie A titles, five Italian Super Cups and the UEFA Cup as well as 140 caps.
But the 36-year-old once suffered from such severe depression he was afraid to walk on to the pitch.
Jorge Luis Pinto says Costa Rica can beat Italy
“I have studied Pirlo since 2006, when he was the best player at the World Cup,” Pinto said. “We will have to block him because he is the Italy player that thinks the most.”
Much has changed, yet today the French hesitate to re-embrace the team. A poll conducted for the magazine France Football found that only 20 percent of French people surveyed in late April had a positive view of Les Bleus.
Honduras are led by Luis Fernando Suárez, the man who guided Ecuador to the last 16 in 2006, their best showing at a World Cup.
Ecuador are coached by Reinaldo Rueda, moreover, who was in charge of Honduras in their 2010 World Cup campaign, when they failed to make it past the first round and did not score a goal.
To add to the feeling of familiarity, both coaches are Colombians.
“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.” - Sun Tzu
Ohhh, that’s cruel....(even though chances are slim, I’m still not officially writing England off yet for making it to the next round).
Can England beat Costa Rica?
Today we’ll find out if CRC is for real or not.
I enjoy the cup matches, but if you haven’t seen this you should. Designed to make the finest soccer afficianado laugh hard: http://vivas.us/world-cup-2014-in-10-seconds-this-is-hilarious/
Saw that last night. It gets funnier each time I watch it.
From England’s standpoint, if you’re going to lose two and still be clinging to a prayer, at least the bare minimum -2 goal differential is in your corner. Still a very plausible route out of this group: TA beats CRC and URU, England beats CRC, and the tiebreakers should go their way.
England really hasn’t played poorly, they just haven’t finished well enough often enough. They might just limp their way out of this one.
Lasagna has arrived :)
How was that not a penalty!?!?!?!?
Costa Rica looks good, I think England is doomed.
Costa Rica Scores!
Bye Bye Three Lions.
Italy needs to score twice in the last 30 minutes or else England is done.
We have a shot at making it through the divisionals, with England and Spain eliminated. Who woulda thunk?
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