INSPIRATION BY FOOTBALL USA

Detractors may point to the relatively poor standard of the USA's major soccer league (Major League Soccer). However, other nations suffer from poor domestic competition such as the African nations but they succeed because their players represent clubs who appear in strong competitions. This could be paralleled at the Untied States who have only four players in their 2010 World Cup squad that appear in their domestic league with the rest all appearing in strong European leagues, (added to this Landon Donavon has recent European experience with Everton). Seven of the States squad ply their trade in the English Premier League, three in Italy's Series A and one in the Spanish Primera League. It is experience such as this plus an abundance of confidence running through the squad than points to the reasons behind their 2010 group stage success.
At the time of writing the USA are awaiting their second round match against Ghana, surely they have a great chance of progressing to the quarter finals and then from there who knows?