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Well, tonight, the US is starting 5 whites, 5 blacks, and 1 hispanic. Jones gets his spot back after Cameron had a great match while he was out. The whites are: Evans, Besler, Bradley, Dempsey, and Zusi. Expect Geoff Cameron to come on as a substitute.

Australia have just qualified for the World Cup! A 1-0 victory at home over Iraq, with Kennedy scoring the clinching goal.

Yes. This is why I'd rather see England than Italy. The media would make this buffoon the primary reason Italy wins anything now. I can't cheer for any team with Ballotelli on it. Frederic, the commentators do the same thing in America. You'd think he just won the World Cup for Italy with that...

I don't really care about the African qualifiers, but a couple of points from them I've noticed: 1. The three Arab teams (Egypt, Tunisia, and Algeria) are all in through to the last leg of qualification. What are these three countries doing displacing the "real athletes" on the continent...

Italy may still play 9-10 whites in addition to Ballotelli, but besides Pirlo, the only players who will get attention are El Shaaraway when he plays, and Ballotelli. Here in the US, Ballotelli is really overrated and overhyped here. Every victory Italy gets in the World Cup will be because of...

I thought I'd post some breakdowns of a few friendlies in the last week... Portugal 1, Croatia 0 Portugal Started: 9 whites, 2 blacks Finished: 11 whites Croatia Started: 11 whites Finished 11 whites China 0, Netherlands 2 China Started: 11 Chinese Finished: 11 Chinese Netherlands...

Rebajlo, that's very true. At least Australia finally isn't playing down to the crappy level of it's opposition. So when they do get to Brazil, it might not be as embarrassing as it could be... I agree, I'm sure every Euro and S. American nation would love the "qualifying" that takes place in...

Well, the US will finish the game with 7 whites, 2 hispanics, and 2 blacks on the field.

There is some good news; the announcers have been raving about how dominating Bradley and Cameron has been as a midfield duo out there tonight, and how good Matt Besler has been.

The always classy Mexican fans are bombarding Costa Rica's captain, Bryan Ruiz, with beer, laser pointers, and other objects as he tries to take a corner. Now riot police are protecting Ruiz as he takes the corner.

What the hell happened to Denmark? How on Earth do you lose 4-0 at home to Armenia?? It makes no sense. Anyway, Denmark started their token black, Simon Poulsen in the match. Rebajlo should be very happy: Australia completely thrashed Jordan by a tune of 4-0! All the Aussies have to do now is...

I was just about to post this. Lol, it was almost on que! As you said, the all-white and all-German team wasn't doing too bad up until that point. (Even if they needed more offense.) But Rudiger comes in and was beaten like a drum. Milan, you'll like this fact: I think he's only supposed to be...

Portugal is getting better it looks like; they started 10 whites in their 1-0 victory of Russia!! The only non-white starter was Bruno Alves. Nani was the only black sub that came on, so they finished with 9 whites and 2 blacks. Helder Postiga scored the goal for Portugal in the 9th minute. I’d...

England started only 4-5 whites today I believe, that's just as bad as France!

Thanks for the help, guys. I wasn't really sure on a couple of the teams. I assumed Italy would have at least one token; good to see they are all-white along with Russia. The "Dutch" are a huge disappointment, I didn't think they would turn that black. Nice to see Italy knock off multi-culti...

Thanks for starting this thread, Matra! I will be paying attention as the games begin tomorrow! I think Russia will be the only all-white team in the field; even Spain now has two blacks on the team, with one of them starting for sure. Germany may only have 1 non-white in their starting...

Frederic, it's a case of both, Turks Ozil and Gundogan and Tunisian Khedira aren't there because of club, but right now, they are the only three Turks/Arabs that even get called up to Germany's side. So Germany doesn't find Turks just to call them up, which is good. They do have two useless...

Nigeria is going to get killed in the Confederations Cup. Milan, I can't wait for those matches either; the Africans are going to get embarrassed there. Anyway, for the US-Germany Friendly today, the USA is also starting Matt Besler, bringing their total whites up to 5, and Germany is indeed...

Milan, if you watched the game tonight, you'd have never known that Mexico was playing with a man down. Also, your prediction of the game was right on. In fact, Nigeria looked like the team with 10 men out there tonight. Despite being down 2-1 at half time, and playing with 10 men after the 29th...

Landon Donovan is on the United States' preliminary Gold Cup squad. The preliminary squad has 35 players on it: Here's the breakdown of the players: Whites: 23(I also count Jose Torres, Tony Beltran, and Alejandro Bedoya as white Hispanics; here's a picture of on the link...

There were two other friendlies yesterday besides the US-Belgium. Also, today Bulgaria beat Japan 2-0 in Japan. Also, even though it is only a friendly, Germany's B-Team completely demolished the "Tenth Ranked" National Team Ecuador in Florida yesterday. Bulgaria 2, Japan 0 Japan: Started: 11...

Well, it looks like Corey Ashe and Maurice Edu (along with Break Shea) have withdrawn from the U.S. qualifiers and friendlies due to injury. God forbid deserving white players like Eric Lichaj, Heath Pearce, Jack McInerney, or Chris Wondolowski get called up. Maybe Edu's injury might open up a...

I was pleased with Vokoun's' play the last two games; especially last night, he made some tremendous saves, like you said. I hope the Penguins will be ready for Ottawa next round.

I'm up for some college football previews again this year! :) I agree with you guys, I think I'll put up a list of all of the teams in June, so we could start then? I think it might have to be June, as the mammoth task of completing 124 teams would take a long time; it usually takes us from May...

We've had some great playoff games so far this year. Pittsburgh and New York yesterday, 5-4 in OT, and tonight, with the Red Wings beating Anaheim 3-2 in OT tonight! Also, I think the Pens are still a bit soft; they seem to wilt when the Islanders started playing physical. I agree with Don, the...