USA World Cup Blog Podcast #5 – USA v England – Premature Preview

March 18th, 2010 | by: Taylor | Comments (8)

With the World Cup now only 84 days away and with final squads still not having been set, now seems as good a time as any to start doing our match previews. Over the next few weeks, we’ll be doing a team by team breakdown to try to figure out how the predicted USA starting eleven stack up against their various opponents. We kick things off this week with England!

A few bits of clarification:
1) This analysis is predicated on an ideal USA XI facing an ideal England XI
2) However, some reality is necessary (David Beckham won’t be magically healed in this one)
3) The USA’s “ideal eleven” is, in this case, Howard, Bocanegra, DeMerit, Onyewu, Spector, Dempsey, Bradley, Clark, Donovan, Altidore, and Davies
4) England’s “ideal eleven” is, according to Daryl, Green/James, Cole, Terry, Ferdinand, Johnson, Gerrard, Lampard, Barry, Walcott, Rooney, and Heskey.

As if all of that wasn’t enticing enough, we also debut The Albert Ottati Rant Box! This week, Al has a few words of wisdom/rage for Bob Bradley. Hilarity ensues. Click the big play button below or go here to download the episode. Cheers!

- You can download the mp3 here and you can find more USA World Cup Blog podcasts here.