The World Cup starts next week, so check out fifaworldcup.com and ussoccer.com to stay up to date. Check out this commercial, too.
Here are some stats about the World Cup from Finding Direction:
- The top ranked team is Brasil
- 12 cities in Germany will be hosting the games
- 7 teams have never played in the World Cup before
- Freddie Ljungberg from the Swedish team is concerned that migraine attacks could knock him out of the World Cup
- Brasil won the last World Cup in 2002, beating Germany
The US Soccer team played last night against Morocco. Unfortunately, they lost 1-0. It was part of a three game “send off” series before they go to Germany for the World Cup. They play again on Friday night against Venezuela. There were 26,141 fans at the game last night. Funny that here in Mexico, there were 100,000 fans at their team’s last game.
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Mexico’s soccer team is on its way to the World Cup. But, according to this article by Reuters, they didn’t leave until they sought divine intervention in the Basillica de Guadalupe.
I know, it’s hard to believe they didn’t invite me to participate in the farewell ceremony, but that’s okay.
In other soccer news, Pachuca defeated San Luis today in final of the Mexican soccer league. Too bad, too, because we know the wife of the San Luis coach. Oh well. There’s always next season (they play two seasons per year).
