It stops tonight but I don't think it was a bad World Cup by us.
Like I said, 2014 World Cup gives us an opportunity to do more soccer products.
Even more recently, World Cup soccer brought us another example of the wrong call when referee Koman Coulibaly disallowed what should have been the game-winning goal by the United States in their match against Slovenia.
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"It's a big embarrassment to us as World Cup hosts that we have to settle for second best, " said South African FA chief executive Leslie Sedibe at the time.
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The US hosted the World Cup in 1994 and calculated GDP gains of an additional 1.4%.
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Rather than the World Cup, this is the RoboCup US Open held this week in Georgia.
It would be great if we could get some Wests Tigers supporters to cheer for us in the World Cup.
It was heartbreaking for Americans, but they won a great, fascinating soccer match and they eliminated us from the World Cup.
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And that includes even our friends from Ghana, who beat us in the World Cup. (Laughter.) Where are you?
And that's where we've got to improve - we have to produce players of the calibre to take us to a World Cup final and win it.
Joe Biden will be leading the American delegation to the World Cup, and the rest of us are going to be cheering them on here at home.
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"It is our home World Cup, there is pressure on us, " acknowledges Spencer, who scored the game's solitary try in that famous win over New Zealand last November, the first time the girls had been allowed to play at HQ since 2006.
When you are leading up to a World Cup, you want the fans behind us and giving us their full support because that will be really important.
"You have entrusted us with the Fifa World Cup for 2018 and I can promise you will never regret it, " said Russian Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov.
"I want to primarily focus on the 15 or 16 players who will represent us at the 2011 World Cup in the sub-continent, " said coach Phil Simmons.
"Mark is a consummate professional and will bring us solidity at centre during a World Cup year, " Jones added.
Michael Campbell wondered if it was because they wanted to rest before next week's Presidents Cup - the Ryder Cup-style US v Rest of World minus Europe - although he himself does not appear to have a problem with the extra work.
"The news, for us, was almost like winning the World Cup in soccer, " he said.
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"Ireland are a formidable team - they were superior to us and deserve a place in the World Cup, " he said.
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Before us is the challenge of winning a World Cup.
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"We still have a lot of work to do before the World Cup, the final on Saturday is a big challenge for us, " Nigeria coach Effiom Ntiero told BBC Sport on Tuesday.
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Indian software group Satyam will join global giants such as McDonalds and the US brewer Anheuser-Busch as one of six World Cup sponsors.
"We're erring on the side of six weeks, and if that is the case then he will be capable of playing the last part of the season for us and putting himself in the frame for the World Cup, " said Coyle.
He covered Spain's 2010 World Cup victory from Madrid and has broadcast live from Wimbledon, the US Open (both tennis and golf), the Ryder Cup, the Open Championship, the Rugby World Cup, the Tour de France, the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix and five consecutive Champions League finals.
Considering that Brazil will host the 2014 FIFA World Cup and the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games, and recalling the US experience in organizing events of this magnitude and the interest of the US Government in sharing this experience with Brazil, the leaders welcomed the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding on Major Global Sporting Events, aimed at intensifying bilateral cooperation, particularly on infrastructure, safety, and security.
But the US are a good team, they always play very well in the World Cup.
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The US soft drinks giant is one of the biggest sponsors of the Fifa World Cup tournament.
"Drogba is a very good soccer player, his outstanding skills and amazing experience will give us motivation to improve our games, " said Argentina's 1986 World Cup winner.
It shows how passionate we are as a nation for football, how our society is amongst the most diverse in the world with communities ready to welcome every team, how we already have fantastic stadia, training grounds, transport and hotels which will enable us to stage a festival of football, creating the most commercially successful World Cup ever.
"It was exciting for us, we were going into the unknown, " Kallicharran recalled of the inaugural 1975 World Cup.
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