[ATrain]

USA drawn in with Portugal, Germany and Ghana. Tough pool.

[VAGolf]

It's a very tough pool but Portugal and Ghana are very winnable matches. If we can go 1-1-1, and Germany can win out, I think we'll have a good shot at advancing. It could be worse, we could be in pool B.

[01LUGrad]

Yep. Pretty tough. Not the quintessential 'group of death,' but definitely the 'group of life support.'
I agree that we have to have a win against Ghana, draw against Portugal, and then hope Germany has 6 points heading into the game with us. Maybe they will go easy on Jurgen's boys (yeah, right) and we can sneak out of the group on goal differential.

[Sly Fox]

Of course another of these stadiums that are being thrown up could collapse and eliminate a few teams. What a horrendous situation to have Brazil trying to do too much at the same time.

[ATrain]

Yeah, I have to give credit to Brazil for trying though. World Cup followed by the Olympics is pretty tough for any nation, but especially one that is emerging.