confirming yesterday, five billion people have been watching the world cup on tv. there has been more accessibility to state here because everything is based in one city. no trouble which has been a feature of previous world cups. and many people feel because of the lack of alcohol and the real coming together of the cultures to create what has been described correctly as a joyful atmospherement a lot of people are going to go home with a feeling that this has been a fantastic festival of football. all right. let s look again ahead here, the third-place match, it s often looked down on, seen as a waste of time. many players just want to go home now that there s no chance of winning the big prize. morocco s coach called the game a booby prize. there are reasons the game could be fascinating and historic, despite that. indeed. it is generally the game that nobody wants to win largely because the teams that get this
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i could not humanly be more excited, the u.s. makes its world cup debut facing off against ghana, the third straight world cup u.s. played ghana. the last two, not gone well at all, including four years ago when ghana beat the united states in devastating fashion in the round of 16. let s talk about this. let s talk about u.s. hopes. can they win tonight? can they go further? greg lawless is editor and chief mlssoccer.com. i think this is one of the biggest games in u.s. soccer history? i think considering the history the u.s. has with ghana, considering all the pressure and all of the excitement around this teernlgs i would say, yeah, this is definitely one of the biggest games we ve seen. for people who are not soccer fans, the u.s. is good. the united states has why do you say it like it s a surprise. a lot of people look at u.s.
martin kaymer won by eight shots on sunday in the u.s. open. the germans scored back-to-back 65s which happened to be a record low. kaymer wins on father s day. that comes on the heels of his players championship win which happened to be on mother s day. that s interesting. history is made yesterday in brazil at the world cup. it was during the france-honduras match, a fifa official used the controversial goal line technology to confirm a france goal in the 49th minute. it confirmed that the goal was, in fact, a goal. this is the first time the technology was used in an international match. the technology is similar to what s used in professional tennis, allowing you to identify whether the ball is in or out. later today, a huge game for usa men s soccer. they play ghana in their first world cup match at 6:00 p.m. eastern. today is a must-win. you can t lose to ghana. probably not going to win the