{"id":2660,"date":"2014-06-10T17:18:39","date_gmt":"2014-06-10T10:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/?p=2660"},"modified":"2014-06-10T17:18:39","modified_gmt":"2014-06-10T10:18:39","slug":"a-crucial-moment-for-the-us-will-be-beating-ghana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/football\/a-crucial-moment-for-the-us-will-be-beating-ghana\/","title":{"rendered":"A crucial moment for the US will be beating Ghana"},"content":{"rendered":"

It can be done.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s right. The United States can get out of the Group of Death at the World Cup. And it\u2019s easier than you might think.<\/p>\n

While it appears to be a daunting task to be one of two teams to advance to the knockout round from a group that includes Germany, Portugal and Ghana, try not to look at the group as a whole.<\/p>\n

Instead of looking at the big picture, think small.<\/p>\n

In World Cup play, the first game is everything. If a team can get three points it can dictate the way the remainder of the group schedule plays out. A team could clearly be the worst of the four teams, totally overmatched in every way, but if it wins that first game its chances of advancing greatly increase.<\/p>\n

After Germany, Group G is fairly evenly balanced. And let\u2019s give the national team some credit. It wouldn\u2019t be the Group of Death without the United States, which moved up one spot, to No. 13, in the latest FIFA poll…<\/p>\n

Read more<\/a><\/p>\n

South Africa Today Sport – Football News – United States – Football<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It can be done. That\u2019s right. The United States can get out of the Group of Death at the World Cup. And it\u2019s easier than you might think. While it appears to be a daunting task to be one of two teams to advance to the knockout round from a group that includes Germany, Portugal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,84],"tags":[678,849,679,1267,371,342,847,850,852,851,30,846,114,120,80,188,241,845,1270,848],"class_list":["post-2660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","category-world-cup","tag-fifa","tag-fifa-poll","tag-fifa-world-cup","tag-football","tag-football-news","tag-germany","tag-ghana","tag-group-g","tag-national-football-team","tag-national-team","tag-news","tag-portugal","tag-south-africa-today","tag-south-africa-today-sport","tag-sport","tag-sport-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-football","tag-world-cup","tag-world-cup-group-of-death"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}