Kennon said:

I really believe that if the USA wants to reach the next level and have hope of consistently going beyond the Round of 16, the USA needs to get rid of Bob Bradley ASAP(I am really unimpressed by how unprepared he had the USA team for every single game) and they desperately need to hire a coach like Jurgen Klinsman. Klinsman is exactly the type of coach the USA team needs. If the USA keeps Bradley they wont be any better than this.

LaughingTree said:

Probably the US team needs a better coach, but surely noone like Jürgen Klinsmann. Being trainer of Bavaria Munich was a fatal error for the club, i think Joachim Löw was and still is the achitect of success in the german team.

Kennon said:

How about: "My World Cup Fever has subsided, and now I've contracted a bad case of Ghana-ria."

The martial strains have summoned me
To hear your sorrows,
Still your pain.
I am the protector of Justice
Equality - my sole friend.
My vision never blurred by cowardice,
My soul never chained.
Life without honor
Is life in vain.

I am the Dog.

From outside (Spain) it seems that in US you see Football as a "Girls game" (You even give it another name... :P)

Spain has one psicological problem in big tournaments when we reach quarterfinals. We play great and we loose. Last Eurochampionship were a step for us, and it was clear for the players they can win anything and anyone.

If we can reach semifinals, I think that only Brasil can stop us.

Masi said:

Actually for linguistic history, The Brits called the game "Soccer" way back in the 1860s-1870s which is the name that was imported to America when immigrants like my grandfather from Scotland arrived in the 1930s and then then post-WWII.  The word "soccer" is derived from the term "Association Football" which was the official moniker for the game in England during the 1850s and earlier. The term Association Football distinguished the game from other games like Ireland's native Gaelic football.

So, us Americans simply use the term for the game that was imported from England during the 1860s to 1880s.

It was really the romance languages (Spanish, Italian, French and Portugese) that popularized the name "futebol" and its various incarnations once the English imported the game to Continental Europe and around the world to romance language speaking colonies.

And Brasil is not stopping anyone.

Don't underestimate the Nederlanders or the Deutsch :P

Sorry to be grammar correct but this is pet peeve:

Masi said:

It is lose, not loose.

In English, "Perder" is "to lose".

LaughingTree said:

Thanks, I can´t remember all the verbs, and I thought  that to lose was "lose, lost, loose"

Anyway, I can remember Win...xDDDDD

Next stop, Germany... (I am really not afraid of Netherland ...)

 Congrats Spain! I really think you deserved it this year.