It’s
Friday Hottie Time! – oh, and time for some info on the next featured team in Portfolio’s
Confederations Cup Countdown
Today: The first featured team from
Group B – The USA
The USA, the champions of North, Central America and the Caribbean, visited South Africa in 2007, beating Bafana Bafana 1-0 in the Nelson Mandela Challenge.
The Americans also have experience in the Confederations Cup, having played in the event three times previously, twice placing third.
While they're not a team that immediately springs to mind as a football powerhouse, the Americans have consistently maintained a world ranking between the teens and low-twenties for a long time now.
Their record for 2008 reads: played 14, won nine, drawn two, and lost three.
The team's star player is veteran Landon Donovan, who first turned out for the USA in October 2000. The previous year he had been awarded the Golden Ball, given to the best player at the 1999 FIFA U-17 World Championships.
Donovan has earned more than 100 internationals caps and is his country's all-time leading goal scorer with 37 to his name.
(Copy source: SouthAfrica.info - original article: Brad Morgan. Creative Commons License)
USA’s Team Hottie has to be Landon Donovan. Yum!
Personally I’m happy just to look at his picture, but if you like some facts with your figures…
Wikipedia tells us Landon Donovan (born March 4, 1982, in Ontario, California) is an American soccer player who currently plays for Los Angeles Galaxy in Major League Soccer.
He is the all-time leading scorer for the United States national team,and is the only five-time winner of the Honda Player of the Year award
(Image: Source)
