World Cup 2014 Team Spotlight – Japan
So far, the trend for Japan has been to go out early in the World Cup finals, advancing only one time past the group stage and never past the round of 16 in five previous tries.
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So far, the trend for Japan has been to go out early in the World Cup finals, advancing only one time past the group stage and never past the round of 16 in five previous tries.
With one of the World’s best strikers and an impressive qualifying campaign, Colombia is hoping that it’s past World Cup final luck will change in 2014, as they enter this year’s tournament beaming with confidence.
With the likes of Yaya Toure and Didier Drogba among their ranks, the Ivory Coast are perhaps the best of the African teams playing in this year’s World Cup final.
Although Greece has only appeared in two World Cup finals and have not progressed beyond the group stage, with a solid squad that has some good attacking talent and a staunch defense, they are poised to make a strong run this summer in Brazil.
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.
San Francisco will travel to St. Louis to start a seven-game road trip that opens with a four-game series against the Cardinals on Thursday.
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 Red Sox and Braves will face off in game three of their interleague series as the teams will shift to Fenway Park for the second half of a home-and-home four-game set on Wednesday.
The Yankees will be looking for their second win in a row and second regular-season win in nine years in St. Louis when they face off against the Cardinals in game two of a three-game set on Tuesday.
Group G is this year’s World Cup “Group of Death”, and is likely to live up to that billing after Germany, Ghana, the United States and Portugal were all assembled, with te later being arguably some of the best teams in the world, with Germany being a strong possible World Cup winner.
While Group C appears to be fairly evenly matched, and there are plenty of different styles within the group that should make for some relatively interesting and competitive matches.
The San Francisco Giants hosts the Minnesota Twins as they play the first game of a three-interleague game set on Friday night in the City by the Bay.
The Angles will host the Houston Astros in the final game of a three-game series on Wednesday, looking to sweep their AL West foe after racking up nine runs against them on Tuesday night.
The struggling Arizona Diamondback arrive in St. Louis on Tuesday night to open a three-game series against the Cardinals who are still sitting four games back of Milwaukee in the NL Central despite winning sic of their last 10 games.