Football World Cup 2014 / United States

This article covers the United States national soccer team at the 2014 World Cup . The US team took part in the finals for the tenth time.

qualification

The team qualified through the CONCACAF qualifying games for the World Cup in Brazil .

The team did not take part until the third qualifying round and the team under national coach Jürgen Klinsmann met Jamaica , Guatemala and, for the first time, Antigua & Barbuda . With four wins, one draw and one defeat from six games, the first place in the group was clearly occupied and the fourth qualifying round was reached.

The US national team was once again the group winner in the fourth qualifying round, where Mexico , Honduras , Costa Rica , Panama and again Jamaica waited as opponents , with Jamaica being coached by Winfried Schäfer in the last game against the USA .

The US team's top scorer was Clint Dempsey with eight goals, who also played the most games (14 of 16) and made his 100th international match against Costa Rica on September 6, 2013 . Jürgen Klinsmann used a total of 38 players in the 16 games. In July 2013 - between the sixth and seventh game of the fourth round - the US team won the CONCACAF Gold Cup 2013 , with four players who were not used in the qualifying games.

Third round

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	United States	11: 60	13
2	Jamaica	9: 6	10
3	Guatemala	9: 8	10
4th	Antigua and Barbuda	04:13	01

June 6, 2012 : USA - Antigua and Barbuda 3: 1 (2: 0)

June 12, 2012 : Guatemala - USA 1: 1 (0: 1)

September 7, 2012 : Jamaica - USA 2: 1 (1: 1)

September 11, 2012 : USA - Jamaica 1-0 (0-0)

October 12, 2012 : Antigua and Barbuda - USA 1: 2 (1: 1)

October 16, 2012 : USA - Guatemala 4: 1 (2: 0)

Fourth round

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	United States	15: 80	22nd
2	Costa Rica	13: 70	18th
3	Honduras	13:12	15th
4th	Mexico	7: 9	11
5	Panama	10:14	08th
6th	Jamaica	05:13	05

February 6, 2013 : Honduras - USA 2: 1 (1: 1)

March 22, 2013 : USA - Costa Rica 1: 0 (1: 0)

March 26, 2013 : Mexico 0-0 USA

June 7, 2013 : Jamaica - USA 1: 2 (0: 1)

June 11, 2013 : USA - Panama 2: 0 (1: 0)

June 18, 2013 : USA - Honduras 1-0 (0-0)

September 6, 2013 : Costa Rica - USA 3: 1 (2: 1)

September 10, 2013 : USA - Mexico 2: 0 (0: 0)

October 11, 2013 : USA - Jamaica 2-0 (0-0)

October 15, 2013 : Panama - USA 2: 3 (1: 0)

preparation

In January 2014, a 14-day training camp took place in what will later be the World Cup headquarters in Brazil, followed on February 1 by a test match in Carson against South Korea , which was won 2-0 with two goals from Chris Wondolowski . On March 5th, a friendly match against Ukraine took place in Larnaka , Cyprus , which was originally supposed to take place in Kharkiv and was lost 2-0. On April 2, the team met Mexico in Glendale . The game ended after a 2-0 lead 2-2. On May 27, there was a game in San Francisco against the team from Azerbaijan trained by Berti Vogts , who later became a special advisor for the USA at the World Cup. The goals in the 2-0 win were scored by Mikkel Diskerud and Aron Johannsson . On June 1st there was a test match against Turkey in Harrison , which was won 2-1 (goalscorers: Fabian Johnson / 26th and Clint Dempsey / 53rd) and on June 7th there was a final test against WM in Jacksonville -Participant Nigeria took place, which was won 2-1 by 2 goals by Jozy Altidore and made his 100th international match with goalkeeper Tim Howard . An agreed unofficial test match against Belgium in São Paulo was canceled due to traffic problems.

Finals

Squad

On May 12, the preliminary roster with 30 players was named, which was reduced to 23 players on June 2 and confirmed by FIFA. Nine players were already in the 2010 World Cup squad when the USA were eliminated in the round of 16. The most experienced player in the preliminary roster was record goal scorer Landon Donovan , who has already participated in three World Cup finals and is the USA's record holder with 12 World Cup games. But he was not taken into account in the final naming of the 23-man squad.

No.	player	society	Country games	Länderspiel- gates	Date of birth	Games	Gates				World Cup participation	World Cup games (before 2014)	World Cup goals (before 2014)
goal
12	Brad Guzan	Aston Villa	025th	00	September 9, 1984	0	0	0	0	0	2010	0	0
01	Tim Howard	Everton FC	100	00	March 6, 1979	4th	0	0	0	0	2010	4th	0
22nd	Nick Rimando	Real Salt Lake	014th	00	17th June 1979	0	0	0	0	0
Defense
07th	DaMarcus Beasley	Puebla FC	116	17th	May 24, 1982	4th	0	0	0	0	2002, 2006, 2010	7th	0
05	Matt Besler	Sporting Kansas City M *	017th	00	February 11, 1987	4th	0	0	0	0
06th	John Anthony Brooks	Hertha BSC	004th	00	January 28, 1993	1	1	0	0	0
20th	Geoff Cameron	Stoke City	027	01	July 11, 1985	3	0	1	0	0
21st	Timothy Chandler	1. FC Nuremberg A	013	00	March 29, 1990	0	0	0	0	0
03	Omar González	Los Angeles Galaxy	020th	00	October 11, 1988	3	0	1	0	0
23	Fabian Johnson	TSG 1899 Hoffenheim	022nd	01	December 11, 1987	4th	0	0	0	0
02	DeAndre Yedlin	Seattle Sounders FC	004th	00	July 9, 1993	3	0	0	0	0
midfield
15th	Kyle Beckerman	Real Salt Lake	037	01	April 23, 1982	3	0	1	0	0
11	Alejandro Bedoya	FC Nantes	028	01	April 29, 1987	4th	0	0	0	0
04th	Michael Bradley	Toronto FC	086	12	July 31, 1987	4th	0	0	0	0	2010	4th	1
14th	Brad Davis	Houston Dynamo	016	00	November 8, 1981	1	0	0	0	0
10	Mix Diskerud	Rosenborg Trondheim	020th	03	October 2, 1990	0	0	0	0	0
16	Julian Green	FC Bayern Munich M, P	002	00	June 6, 1995	1	1	0	0	0
13	Jermaine Jones	Beşiktaş Istanbul	042	02	3rd November 1981	4th	1	1	0	0
19th	Graham Zusi	Sporting Kansas City M *	023	03	August 18, 1986	4th	0	0	0	0
attack
17th	Jozy Altidore	Sunderland AFC	070	23	November 6, 1989	1	0	0	0	0	2010	4th	0
08th	Clint Dempsey	Seattle Sounders FC	105	37	March 9, 1983	4th	2	0	0	0	2006, 2010	6th	2
09	Aron Jóhannsson	AZ Alkmaar	008th	02	November 10, 1990	1	0	0	0	0
18th	Chris Wondolowski	San Jose Earthquakes	021st	09	January 28, 1983	2	0	0	0	0
Coaching staff
	Jürgen Klinsmann	Trainer	108	47	July 30, 1964	4th					1990, 1994, 1998; 2006	17; 7th	11
	Andreas Herzog	Assistant coach	103	26th	September 10, 1968						1990, 1998	6th	1
	Martin Vasquez	Assistant coach	003, 007	00	December 24, 1963
	Chris Woods	Goalkeeping coach	043	00	November 14, 1959						1986, 1990	0
	Mark Verstegen	Fitness trainer			June 9, 1969						2006

1. ↑ ^{a b c} As of June 7, 2014 (after the game against Nigeria ( source ), FIFA sometimes gives different figures as it does not take into account games against Guadeloupe and Martinique in the Gold Cup.)
2. ↑ M = The club was champion of its country in the 2013/14 season,> M * = The club was champion of the MLS in the 2013 season (the current season is still running), A = The club was relegated from the highest league in the country , P = The club won the cup in the 2013/14 season
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} As a player for Germany
4. ↑ ^{a b} As team manager for Germany
5. ↑ ^{a b c d e} As a player for Austria
6. ↑ As a player for Mexico
7. ↑ As a player
8. ↑ ^{a b c} As a player for England
9. ↑ For Germany

Group stage

Manaus natal Recife São Paulo Salvador

Preliminary round venues (red), round of 16 venue (green) and quarters (blue)

When the final round was drawn on December 6, 2013, the USA were drawn to Group G with Germany as the group head . Furthermore, Ghana and Geoff Hurst , scorer of the Wembley goal Portugal, were drawn into Group G. The USA played their last World Cup game against Ghana at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa in the last sixteen, losing 2-1 after extra time. The preliminary round game at the 2006 World Cup between the two teams ended with the same result after regular time. The USA, coached by the former German national coach Jürgen Klinsmann , last played on June 2, 2013 in a friendly match on the occasion of the 100th birthday of the US soccer association, which was won 4: 3 against Germany. At World Championships, Germany and the USA met in the preliminary round in 1998 (2-0 for Germany, with Klinsmann making it 2-0) and in the quarter-finals in 2002 (1-0 for Germany). Portugal was the last opponent before the World Cup on June 5, 2002 in the first group game of the World Cup finals, with the USA winning 3-2. Overall, the pre-World Cup record is even with two wins, one draw and two defeats against Portugal. Before the draw, Jürgen Klinsmann expressed his wish not to face Germany. The US press rated the result of the draw as negative.

The team's quarters were the Tivoli São Paulo Mofarrej Hotel in São Paulo .

→ Main article : Football World Cup 2014 / Group G

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Germany	3	2	1	0	007: 200	+5	07th
2.	United States	3	1	1	1	004: 400	± 0	04th
3.	Portugal	3	1	1	1	004: 700	−3	04th
4th	Ghana	3	0	1	2	004: 600	−2	01

• Mon., June 16, 2014, 7:00 p.m. (00:00 a.m. CEST) in Natal

Ghana - USA 1: 2 (0: 1) 

• Sun., June 22, 2014, 3:00 p.m. (9:00 p.m. CEST) in Manaus

 USA - Portugal 2: 2 (0: 1) 

• Thursday, June 26, 2014, 1:00 p.m. (6:00 p.m. CEST) in Recife

 USA - Germany 0: 1 (0: 0)

Knockout round

Round of 16: Tuesday, July 1, 2014, 5:00 p.m. (10:00 p.m. CEST) in Salvador

 Belgium - USA 2: 1 n.V. (0: 0, 0: 0) 

There were only 5 games against Belgium before the World Cup, the only victory came in the preliminary round of the first World Cup in 1930, after which there were four defeats - most recently with 2: 4 on May 29, 2013 in Cleveland .

Sports impact

In the FIFA world rankings , the United States fell two places from 13th to 15th despite reaching the round of 16, but were initially still the best-placed team in CONCACAF .

Web links

• All matches of the preliminary round at a glance

Individual evidence

1. ↑ fifa.com: "Klinsmann: Two weeks to Brazil with the US team"
2. ↑ ussoccer.com: "US MNT to Face Ukraine on March 5" ( Memento of the original from January 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ spiegel.de: "US national team: Klinsmann brings Vogts as a consultant"
4. ↑ fifa.com: "Klinsmann nominates four German legionnaires in US squad" ( Memento of the original from May 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ ussoccer.com: "Klinsmann Names US MNT's 23-Player Roster for 2014 FIFA World Cup"
6. ↑ stuttgarter-zeitung.de: “Klinsmann of all people! Nightmare draw for USA "
7. ↑ fifa.com: team quarters
8. ↑ fifa.com: "World Champion Germany takes over the top position"