[WournGona]

starts sunday. us begins play monday against world champion italy. gonna be difficult to avoid seeing results but i will try my best. in typical us fashion we draw the group of death.

group a
south africa
spain
new zealand
iraq

group b
usa
italy
brazil
egypt

4 points would be quite a success imo and could possibly get them into the knockout stage.

would like to see a lineup of

--------------howard
bornstein--boca--gooch--spector
deuce---torres/feilhaber/adu--bradley--donovan
---------altidore-----davies

i doubt we will see a 4-4-2 against italy and brazil though, more likely a 4-5-1 with clark and bradley as holding mids and either torres/feilhaber/adu as attacking mid.

we were the only side to take a point off italy at the '06 world cup and would have taken 3 if it weren't for a horrendous offside call.