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Group E
USA
World Cup participations: 7
Greatest World Cup achievement: semi-final (1930)
The Americans - denounced as football-nobodies some years ago, have
qualified every time in the last 16 years and also delivered good
performances in many cases.
They even made it into the quarter-final in 2002.
This time they have qualified as winner in the Concacaf-group
ahead of Mexico.
Star Landon Donovan could not find his place in the Bundesliga at Leverkusen and
plays at LA Galaxy, DaMarcus Beasly of PSV Eindhoven, Claudio Reyna
of Man City and Onyewu of Standard Liege are known names in Europe.
The strengths of the USA are the collective and the team spirit that
comes especially at big events and optimism and ambition that
distinguishes the Americans. The weakness is the lack of international
experience.
The group is very difficult and it is rather unlikely that
the USA will finish as second.
The odds on USA as world cup winner were rather high
- 101.0 at Betandwin.
For a bet on group winner USA you get 9.0.
For a bet on USA reaching the last 16 you get 2.75.
United States
Association United States
Soccer Federation
Coach Bruce Arena, 1998-
Most caps Cobi Jones (164)
Top scorer Eric Wynalda (34)
First International
Unofficial: USA 0 - 1 Canada
(Newark, USA; November 28, 1885)
Official: Sweden 2 - 3 USA
(Stockholm, Sweden; August 20, 1916)
Largest win
USA 8 - 1 Cayman Islands
(Mission Viejo, USA; November 14, 1993)
USA 7 - 0 El Salvador
(Los Angeles, USA; December 5, 1993)
USA 7 - 0 Barbados
(Foxborough, USA; August 20, 2000)
Worst defeat
USA 0 - 10 England
(New York City, USA; May 27, 1964)
World Cup
Appearances 7 (First in 1930)
Best result Semifinals, 1930
CONCACAF Gold Cup
Appearances 8 (First in 1991)
Best result Winners, 1991 and 2002
World Cup Squad USA
This is the official world cup squad -
you can find here all the
world cup players
for USA
Goalkeepers
Kasey Keller
Tim Howard
Marcus Hahnemann
Defenders
Carlos Bocanegra
Steve Cherundolo
Jimmy Conrad
Cory Gibbs
Frankie Hejduk
Eddie Lewis
Oguchi Onyewu
Eddie Pope
Midfielders
Landon Donovan
Clint Dempsey
Claudio Reyna
John O’Brien
Ben Olsen
DaMarcus Beasley
Pablo Mastroeni
Bobby Convey
Strikers
Brian McBride
Eddie Johnson
Josh Wolff
Brian Ching
Other World Cup Teams
Group A
Germany
Costa Rica
Poland
Ecuador
Group B
England
Paraguay
Trinidad and Tobago
Sweden
Group C
Argentina
Cote d'Ivoire
Serbia and Montenegro
Netherlands
Group D
Mexico
Iran
Angola
Portugal
Group E
Italy
Ghana
USA
Czech Republic
Group F
Brazil
Croatia
Australia
Japan
Group G
France
Switzerland
Korea Republic
Togo
Group H
Spain
Ukraine
Tunisia
Saudi Arabia
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