Posted on 06/15/2014 2:13:58 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
The U.S. soccer team gathered in a meeting room at the team hotel here Thursday afternoon to watch the opening game of a World Cup it won't officially become part of until Monday, when it meets Ghana in the northeastern coastal city of Natal.
And while the Brazil-Croatia opener kept most Brazilians on the edge of their seats, it put American goalkeeper Tim Howard to sleep.
"I dozed off," said Howard,
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The butler did it. Oops.
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Roy Hodgson: England can progress at World Cup despite Italy defeat
If you lose the first game youve got to win the next two,
England 1:2 Italy Match Highlights
Hodgson should be hopeful
There is little good news about losing an opening World Cup game and England may yet live to regret the missed chances and sloppy defending that ended in defeat by Italy.
Hodgson, however, was accentuating the positive and was right to do so - while accepting it is tough to put a gloss on a result that instantly puts England on the back foot.
Mario Balotelli, the controversial Italian forward, reminded England fans that he is as brilliant as he is unpredictable as he scored the winner in his team's 2-1 victory at Arena Amazonas.
The World Cup is the kind of stage made for Balotelli, who divided opinion wildly during his three years with Manchester City in the English Premier League before returning to Italy with AC Milan. And he didn't let this opportunity slip.
Watch Balotelli score Italy's second goal with his head
Balotelli revealed their engagement on his Instagram account on Monday
LOL, a world-class paper: “figure out your own kind of piece of mind”
Ill give Rooney credit for a perfect cross to Sturridge for the England goal but three World Cups now and he has still not found the back of the net, come on!
And that corner towards the end of the game? I saw a colemanball last year about Rooney that sums that up, phenomical...
In 1993, the authorities suggested he be placed into foster care. The Barwuah family gave up the three-year-old boy to an Italian foster family, the Balotellis.[7][9] His foster parents, Silvia (the daughter of Holocaust survivors) and Francesco Balotelli, who are Italian Jews,[10][11][12][13][14] lived in the town of Concesio, Brescia, in northern Italy.[15]
At first, he stayed at the Balotellis during the weekdays, and returned to his biological parents on weekends. But after a while he started to be indifferent towards his biological parents and adopted the surname of the Balotellis, and it was arranged for him to be permanently fostered by the Balotellis.[16]
In June 2012, he dedicated his goals that put Italy in the final of the Euro 2012 football championships to his foster mother Silvia, and rushed over to embrace her as she wept after the win.[7][17]
So what does a "physio" translate into American (grin)? My spellcheck keeps transmuting it into physic and my best semi-educated guess is that it is something like a physical or conditioning trainer for the team.
Anyway I was rooting for England and sorry that they lost, now on to rooting for USA in their match Monday.
"He set up the goal for us and worked hard, and did well when we moved him into the centre.
"There's always going to be one player with a big debate around him, but I think it's harsh for people to criticise his performance, because for me he played well."
Wayne Rooney Takes Terrible Corner Kick In 2014 World Cup Loss (Video)
Down a goal in the second half of its 2014 FIFA World Cup match with Italy, England needed something to bounce its way. England could not have been given a much better opportunity when forward Wayne Rooney earned a corner kick late in the game. What happened, however, was far from what his team could have hoped for.
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