The rest of the links from Day 2 of the U-20 WWC (and today)

ESPN Fail

• Highlighting this, because halftime on ESPN3 is nothing like halftime on ESPNU. ESPN3 stays with FIFA and the game at hand, even if only to replay the highlights.

Yesterday’s Games

• CONCACAF recaps the games played by the three teams that qualified for the World Cup.
• FIFA does as well:
• 1-1 between England and Nigeria
  3-3 between Mexico and Japan
  1-1 between US and Ghana
  and a 4-0 win for South Korea over the Swiss
• On top of that, FIFA does a recap of the whole day.
• By now, we all know that the US struggled.
• So you can imagine what kind of stock quotes were given in interviews.
• Or you can watch and listen, because there is video as well.
• Here’s a question for US Soccer: the U-20s are currently playing in a World Cup. Why are they buried near the bottom of your media section’s featured categories?

Et Cetera

• US Soccer, in an attempt not to compound their own shortcomings, did an interview with Kendall Johnson.
• FIFA previews tomorrow’s games and highlights Brazil-Sweden.
• There is also a feature on Costa Rica.
• By the way, did you know Chris Wood was at New Zealand’s first game?
• Unfortunately, he is going to miss their biggest test, tomorrow’s match against Korea DPR.
• I think most people interested in US women’s soccer have heard the story of what happened at the CONCACAF U-17 Qualifiers between Haiti and the US team. Bryane Haeberlin followed up with the team from Haiti and brought them to the US to spend some time in Florida.
• CONCACAF shares video of Haiti’s trip.