[quote name='JoeyandDavid' date='Jun 12 2006, 03:16 PM'] [quote]Bad afternoon. USA lost in the World cup - 3 - 0.[/quote]<br />
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Is this a single elimination tournament?.. I don&#39;t follow original football as closely as I probably should.. only American football [/quote]<br />
 There are 32 teams in the World Cup, divided into eight groups of four teams. The teams in a group play each other, and get 3 points for a win, 1 for a tie, none for a loss. Two of the four teams in each group advance to the next round. If there is a tie, there are tie breakers based 1) goal difference (ours is now minus three), 2) total goals scored, then 3) head to head, then 4) coin flip. 0-3 is a disaster because, with that awful goal difference and no goals after one game, we&#39;ll probably have to win both of our remaining games in order to advance: a tall order when our next game is against perennial power Italy, and our other opponent, Ghana, is no slouch. In the last two world cups, only one team that lost the first game managed to advance.<br />
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The Dallas Cowboys may call themselves &quot;America&#39;s team&quot;, but our World Cup squad really is America&#39;s team--and it has started off very poorly.