This year’s USA side has the players and the manager to make decent run in the World Cup finals in Brazil, but they have been handed the misfortune of being placed in one of the toughest groups in the tournament.
Despite being the outsider of Group G, Ghana enters the 2014 World Cup finals as a side that has registered a pair of very strong showings in only two appearances, which included reaching the knockout rounds on both occasions and almost getting to the semifinals in 2010.
With perhaps the best player in the world on their side, Portugal is poised to make a deep run at Brazil 2014 this summer, but they face stiff completion in Group G and will need to be sharp in every match if they want to make it back to the semifinals — their best finish ever in the World Cup finals.
World Cup host Brazil will attempt to become the first home nation to hoist the World Cup since France in 1998, looking also to avenge a quarterfinal loss to the Netherlands in the 2010 World Cup.
Team Mexico heads to the World Cup in Brazil in a familiar position – with a ton of promise but questions whether or not they can advance past the Group stage.
This year’s German World Cup team can pretty much be summed up with just one word — GOALS! And lots of them too, as they cruised through their WC qualifying campaign with ease, managing 36 goals in 10 games. Precisely why they are favored to go all the way by odd makers, and win it all this summer in Brazil.
The defending runner-up in the 2010 World Cup Holland begins this year’s edition of the World Cup looking a tad underwhelming after an early exit in Euro 2012 – a tournament in which they lost every game in the Group stage.
The defending World Cup and Euro 2008 and 2012 champions Spain find themselves in a familiar spot as the 2014 World Cup approaches.
