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A World Cup for a Non American Football

Which is the greatest team sports' event? Forcoach Pareira has at his disposal some of the
most US Americans the "Super Bowll" would bemost talented football players of the world:
an easy answer. Others, mostly attracted byKaka, Adriano, Roberto Carlos, Ronaldo and of
baseball, basketball, or hockey, would choosecourse Ronaldinho the World Player of the
one of those sports' finals or all-starYear for the last two years.As strong
games, but this is not the case for the restcontenders for the title are considered, by
of the world. Outside of the US when peoplesoccer experts and bookmakers, the team of
say football they refer to the sport that isGermany, which will play in front of its
known as soccer in United States and which isaudience as the host-nation, and that of
by far the most popular sport in all of theEngland, Argentina and Italy. In addition,
five continents. The World Cup that takesthe Brazilians, the French striker Thierry
place over a four-year period is consideredHenry, the Ukrainian striker Andriy
as the most important athletic competition,Shevchenko, the English midfielder Frank
being more widely-viewed on TV exceeding evenLampard, the German midfielder Michael
the Olympic Games. In 2002, when North KoreaBallack and the new star of the Argentinean
and Japan co-hosted the World Cup thefootball Lionel Messi are players one will
cumulative TV audience was estimated to beenjoy watching.The United States' national
28.8 billion, while 1.1 billion individualsteam is assigned in the Group E and will face
watched the final match of the tournamentItaly, Ghana and the Czech Republic in the
between Brazil and Germany.This year thefirst stage of the tournament, giving its
World Cup takes place in Germany with thefirst game in Gelsenkirchen on the 12th of
first mach between Germany and Costa RicaJune against the Czechs. Coach Bruce Arena
being scheduled on 9th of June and the lasthas his team believing that their mix of
one, the final game which is going to takeyoung talents such as DaMarcus Beasley and
place one month later on the 9th of July inLandon Donovan and old campaigners like
Berlin. Thirty-two national teams areClaudio Reyna and Brian McBride could be
participating in this great "party" of worldenough to go further than the quarter-finals
soccer and they will play in a total ofwhere they reached in 2002.There are many
twelve German cities. Among the nationalassumptions about soccer's low popularity in
teams, which participate 14 come from Europe,the United States, but the most convincing
5 from Africa, 4 from South America, 4 fromone seem to be the fact that the American
Asia, 4 from North and Central America and 1national team didn't have any serious
from Oceania.Brazil is the defending Wordaccomplishments during the last years in
Champion and one of the great favorites oforder to attract their country's attention
wining the trophy this year. The Braziliansand interest. The boys of Bruce Arena will
have already won the World Cup five times andhave their opportunity now inside the German
are the most successful team in thestadiums.
competition's history. This year, legendary



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