Today's Schedule
Today is the day, peeps! The Yanks take on The Waffles down in Salvador. Before we dive into all those previews, however, we must address yesterday's action. Here:
France 2 - 0 Nigeria
Andy Brassell: Forget the narrative, Giroud was key in France victory
Amy Lawrence: Griezmann stakes claim for place
John Brewin: Pogba lives up to the hype
Germany 2 - 1 Algeria
David Ornstein: Germany & Algeria deliver 'beautiful story'
John Ashdown: Algeria fail to find revenge
Ready? OK. Go.
Switzerland vs. Argentina
Marcus Christenson: Shaqiri takes on Argentina for Switzerland (and Kosovo)
Gabriele Marcotti: Messi, Maradona and the Maracana
USA vs. Belgium
Roger Bennet: U.S. face their biggest game ever
Jeff Carlisle: How the U.S. will deploy Jozy Altidore
Chris Jones: Do you believe?
Brian Straus: Belgium has high expectations, golden generation
Ben Smith: The quirks of football that baffle Americans
Doug McIntire: Beasley resurrected under Klinsmann (includes interview)
We've not heard from Marcela Mora y Araujo in a while so it's nice to see she's got an article out today. She's reporting on an Argentinian paper that's reporting on the World Cup from the favelas. Have a read.
The Mill. Plus One. And Liverpool have purchased Lallana from Southampton for for £25m.
African football is still just can't get over the hump. The talent is there, but, as filmmaker and columnist Farai Sevenzo writes, African football remains bedevilled by the perennial problems of poor organisation, tactical indiscipline and rows over money.
And finally...we know this World Cup has been good. It's easily the best anyone at SSN Headquarters has ever seen. The Telegraph's Henry Winter has been to seven World Cups, and agrees that this has been the most magnificent.
Onward!!
-SSN
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