Population: 290 million
Capital: Washington, DC
Shirt: White
Nickname: Team USA
Manager: Bruce Arena
Website: US Soccer Federation
World ranking: 5
Odds: 80/1
Star man: More future star really. The big hope for US soccer is 16-year-old Freddy Adu. Raised in Ghana, Adu has pledged his future to the US and while there outside hopes he would make the squad he will have to bide his time until 2010.
Squad: Click Here for the USA squad
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 Once the USA were not even considered capable of playing "the other football". But after a quarter-final push in the 2002 World Cup, their stock rose and the Americans are currently ranked fifth in the world.
As winner of the CONCACAF Zone, the United States qualified for their fifth World Cup in a row. |  A former striker at the Bundesliga's Bayer Leverkusen, Landon Donovan is one of America's top players along with winger DeMarcus Beasley. Kasey Keller, another Bundesliga fixture at Borussia Mönchengladbach, stands between the posts for the US. |
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