[Brit1]

Maybe but there are a lot of good strong players in Africa the 'Nations Cup' etc showing this and there are far more Africans into soccer culture than in the USA. Perhaps if the Czechs had paid more attention to African soccer then they would not have allowed the Ghananians to play so well.

[RKV]

Yep. The Italians had the same problem. Couldn't figure out that the USA was going to give them competition. Too bad;>) This pool is really interesting. Czechs beat USA, USA ties Italy, Italy beats Ghana, Ghana beats Czechs. Crazy really. Free for all. I am sure Arena will take the Ghanians seriously. I just hope that our team can recover physically in the 5 days between games. We're down two good guys as are the Ghanians.