{"id":1862,"date":"2009-12-04T21:57:41","date_gmt":"2009-12-05T02:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/12\/04\/us-has-a-chance-with-2010-world-cup-draw\/"},"modified":"2010-02-27T06:57:17","modified_gmt":"2010-02-27T11:57:17","slug":"us-has-a-chance-with-2010-world-cup-draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/12\/04\/us-has-a-chance-with-2010-world-cup-draw\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. has a chance with 2010 World Cup Draw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Team USA got the following <a href=\"http:\/\/soccernet.espn.go.com\/world-cup\/story\/_\/id\/4713726\/ce\/us\/united-states-draws-england-first-game&cc=5901?ver=us\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/soccernet.espn.go.com\/world-cup\/story\/_\/id\/4713726\/ce\/us\/united-states-draws-england-first-game&amp;cc=5901?ver=us', '2010 World Cup draw');\" target=\"new\">2010 World Cup draw<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>June 12  England<br \/>\nJune 18  Slovenia<br \/>\nJune 23  Algeria<\/p>\n<p>While the English are ranked ninth in the world and have stars such as Wayne Rooney, Steven Gerrard and Frank Lampard, whose club matches are televised throughout the world, Algeria (28th) and Slovenia (33rd) both needed to win playoffs to reach the tournament and are ranked well behind the U.S. (14th).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/2009\/soccer\/12\/04\/wcup.draw.ap\/index.html\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/2009\/soccer\/12\/04\/wcup.draw.ap\/index.html', 'If the U.S. fails to advance');\" target=\"new\">If the U.S. fails to advance<\/a>, it should be considered a huge upset, and another major failure for American soccer.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThis is the best draw we\u2019ve ever had in any World Cup,\u201d said former U.S. forward Eric Wynalda, now an analyst for the Fox Soccer Channel. \u201cNo disrespect to England, but this is an ideal group for us.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I tend to agree.  Even without knowing how Slovenia and Algeria match up with the U.S., I have to believe that if we are fit, we should manage to advance.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Team USA got the following 2010 World Cup draw: June 12 England June 18 Slovenia June 23 Algeria While the English are ranked ninth in the world and have stars such as Wayne Rooney, Steven Gerrard and Frank Lampard, whose club matches are televised throughout the world, Algeria (28th) and Slovenia (33rd) both needed to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/12\/04\/us-has-a-chance-with-2010-world-cup-draw\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">U.S. has a chance with 2010 World Cup Draw<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[41],"class_list":["post-1862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","tag-u-s-soccer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2405,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1862\/revisions\/2405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}