Thursday, June 18, 2015
Soccerhorn rises to the top as he and YellowCard and Bailo Con Hope Solo get 15 R16 teams
NEW YORK CITY, NY (smt) -- Like the Giants, Jets, and Red Bulls, I'm claiming to write this from New York despite flying into Newark, NJ and staying at a hotel in New Brunswick, NJ. I did ride the train to NYC to see an awesome show (Finding Neverland), so it counts! So despite the shaky second games for teams (A1-Canada ties! C1-Germany and D1-USA draw, F1-France loses), all four won their group and in fact, the top 11 teams in the WWC made the Round of 16 (hello #16 A2-China, #18 E2-Korea Rep, #19 C2-Swiss, #28 F3-Colombia, and #53 C3-Cameroon, the first African nation to reach the knockout stage). #14 E3-Spain and #17 A3-New Zealand were the best-ranked teams (top 24) to not make the knockout stage. C1-Japan and E1-Brazil completed a perfect 3-0-0 record with BRA getting three shutouts. 
Out of order, as the most exciting finish happened in the very last match as 
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