government granted the company a monopoly on the lucrative dutch spice trade in south and south east asia. that in sixteen fifteen competitive appeared on the scene. so c mon not to be experienced man called can a man organized an expedition. he had been a major shareholder in the dutch east india company but was expelled for fraud. after that he made it his business to cause as much trouble for the company as he could. one way to do that was to find a new sea route to asia you. knew were going to feel a man wanted to get back into the asian spice trade inspiration. and he sent his son jacobi and an experienced skipper vellum cornelius shout and to search for what he described as an undiscovered southern continent. bought off each year but their real mission was to find
team with the most goals wins. if they are still tied, cobi jones, they have sudden death. can you describe the pressure for me, cobi, for the kicker and the goalkeeper? it s intense pressure. it s more pressure for the player taking the penalty kick because it really doesn t have anything to do, you know, with those 120 minutes plus that happened before. it s just the one moment where you get to walk up, make that walk from half field, place the ball and the whole stadium is watching you and the expectation is actually for the player to score that. for the goalkeeper, for him, they don t expect him to make a save. if he gets one or two, he s done his job. but for the kicker, he has to put that in the net. i was looking at the stats today more times than not. the kicker converts into the
we re not really known for soccer. so for us to be doing this well and come out of the gate with so much personality, and you really see american personality out on the field with all the hairstyles and the neon sneakers. i ve even seen guys like thinking about getting dreads for the first time because of kyle beckerman. but you re a latina. why do you think women are so interested this time? because these guys are hot. they have perfect bodies. they work out. they have endurance like you couldn t believe on the field. and they just have the perfect sample sized body. okay. give me a prediction. you first. usa. usa all the way. cobi? usa of course, come on. and fred, you re german. what do you say, buddy? well, you know my allegiance. i think that germany is going to win 3-1 this time. oh, jeez. but i also have to say i predicted that portugal would beat the u.s. and i was wrong as well. one of the things we ve seen here is if the u.s. fights as hard as it is and pu
coach jurgen klinsmann say it s going to be very, very tough. but we all know there are all these story lines, don, klinsmann who used to be the coach for the german team. the current coach of the german team was klinsmann s assistant. so it really is a game of david versus goliath as well as the master against his apprentice, if you will. there is a lot of excitement here many this town. but certainly the confidence level in the u.s. team is very high, don. cobi, you played in three world cups and you re the record cap holder. you actually played against germany in the finals of the world cup back in 2002. what is going to be going through the players minds tonight you think? there is obviously going to be a lot of pressure for this team, because they know that they have to get some type of result. the last thing you want to do is leave everything in the hands of another game that is going on. so right now what they re thinking is okay, they look at the game against portugal ther
that period of time, that 80-plus minutes, if they can play like that, they re thinking they can go out and they can beat germany, because that s probably the best they have played against coach jurgen klinsmann. so i have to ask you about this. luis suarez, the biting italian player. i heard someone go ouch. have you ever seen anything like, that cobi? no, not personally. we know that suarez has a history of unfortunately biting players. and for me, you know, there is no place for that in the game. and i m waiting to see what fifa does. i think they ve got to come down quickly and they need to come down significantly harsh on suarez. shea role model. and he does have some big teeth too. michelle, u.s. soccer has taken off here in the united states in an unprecedented way. what can you attribute this to do you think? well, i think everybody is so excited about seeing the american rebel taking on the world stage.