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USA

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The USA is no longer seen as an easy three points at the World Cup after a solid showing in 2002. Indeed, the Americans were close to being a top seed this time round but a poor 1998 performance meant that they were just edged out by Italy.

Bruce Arena is still at the helm after steering the team to a quarter-final four years and will regard anything less than a place in the second round as a failure. To progress past the first stage, he will look to midfielders such as DaMarcus Beasley and Claudio Reyna to protect the back and chip in with a couple of goals.

The defence without Brad Freidel, one of the heroes of 2002 but who has now hung up his international gloves, looks less solid than before and much will depend on how Fulham striker Brian McBride and Landon Donovan fare further up the pitch.

USA Matches

Match # Date & Time Group Teams Result Venue
10 Mon 12th Jun 18:00 E  USA  CZE 0 - 3 Gelsenkirchen
25 Sat 17th Jun 21:00 E  ITA  USA 1 - 1 Kaiserslautern
42 Thu 22nd Jun 16:00 E  GHA  USA 2 - 1 Nuremberg

Match times shown are local times for Germany (CEST/GMT+0200). Click on match date/time to view match statistics.

Past World Cup performance

Key Players

World Cup 2006 Qualification

Squad

Total World Cup 2006
# Posn Name DOB Club Caps Goals Pld Goals OG YC RC
1 GK Howard Tim 06-03-1979 Manchester Utd. ENG 16 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 DF Albright Chris 14-01-1979 Los Angeles Galaxy USA 20 1 0 0 0 0 0
3 DF Bocanegra Carlos 25-05-1979 Fulham ENG 42 6 2 0 0 0 0
4 DF Mastroeni Pablo 29-08-1976 Colorado Rapids USA 51 0 2 0 0 0 1
5 MF O'Brien John 29-08-1977 Chivas USA 33 3 1 0 0 0 0
6 DF Cherundolo Steve 19-02-1979 Hannover 96 GER 39 1 3 0 0 0 0
7 DF Lewis Eddie 17-05-1974 Leeds ENG 72 8 2 0 0 1 0
8 MF Dempsey Clint 09-03-1983 New England Revolution USA 23 6 2 1 0 0 0
9 FW Johnson Eddie 31-03-1984 Kansas City Wizards USA 21 9 2 0 0 0 0
10 MF Reyna Claudio 20-07-1973 Manchester City ENG 113 8 3 0 0 1 0
11 FW Ching Brian 24-05-1978 Houston Dynamo USA 20 4 0 0 0 0 0
12 DF Berhalter Gregg 01-08-1973 Energie Cottbus GER 44 0 0 0 0 0 0
13 DF Conrad Jimmy 12-02-1977 Kansas City Wizards USA 17 0 2 0 0 0 0
14 MF Olsen Ben 03-05-1977 Washington DC Utd. USA 35 6 1 0 0 0 0
15 MF Convey Bobby 27-05-1983 Reading ENG 43 1 3 0 0 0 0
16 FW Wolff Josh 25-02-1977 Kansas City Wizards USA 49 9 1 0 0 0 0
17 MF Beasley DaMarcus 24-05-1982 PSV Eindhoven NED 62 12 3 0 0 0 0
18 GK Keller Kasey 29-11-1969 B. Moenchengladbach GER 97 0 3 0 0 0 0
19 GK Hahnemann Marcus 15-06-1972 Reading ENG 6 0 0 0 0 0 0
20 FW McBride Brian 19-06-1972 Fulham ENG 96 30 3 0 0 0 0
21 MF Donovan Landon 04-03-1982 Los Angeles Galaxy USA 85 25 3 0 0 0 0
22 DF Onyewu Oguchi 13-05-1982 Standard Liege BEL 18 1 3 0 0 1 0
23 DF Pope Eddie 24-12-1973 Real Salt Lake USA 83 8 2 0 0 1 1