SOUTH KOREA: UNITED STATES PREPARE FOR THEIR WORLD CUP QUARTER-FINAL CLASH WITH GERMANY

Record ID: 640677

  • Title: SOUTH KOREA: UNITED STATES PREPARE FOR THEIR WORLD CUP QUARTER-FINAL CLASH WITH GERMANY
  • Date: 19th June 2002
  • Summary: SEOUL SOUTH KOREA JUNE 19 2002 (REUTERS) SECURITY CHECKS FOR MEDIA BEFORE TRAINING SESSION VARIOUS TEAM TRAINING COACH BRUCE ARENA SPEAKING AS NOTED Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 4th July 2002 13:00
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  • Location: SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA
  • Country: South Korea
  • Topics: Sports
  • Reuters ID: LVAAXUKKNF350QKA45UIMIO2UDV5
  • Story Text: The United States reckon speed and positioning will make up for what they lack in size when they play Germany in Friday's quarter-final, coach Bruce Arena said.
    "We have to be good in a lot of areas to neutralise their physical quality," he told a news conference on Wednesday.
    "We're not going to get any taller or any thicker overnight. so we're going to have to make up for it with a little bit of quickness and some brains and some positioning of the ball."
    Arena said the Germans were as big as any team in the World Cup, describing Miroslav Klose and Casten Jancker as "a handful in front of the goal" and "a concern to us".
    "Defenders will have to do a better job in dealing with those forwards and positioning ourselves the right way to fight for those crosses," he said.
    Arena said he had made no decision on the line-up for Friday's match in Ulsan, South Korea.
    Meanwhile say harmony and pride are the two main reasons for their speedy recovery from their worst crisis, one of many surprises in a World Cup of upsets.
    "We all stand closely together and we all share the same dream," Germany captain Oliver Kahn said.
    The troubled heavyweights had entered thetournament with lower expectations than usual, coach Rudi Voeller naming the knock-out stages as their minimal aim after they struggled to qualify and then lost a handful of valued players through injury.
    Polls kept showing that many fans in the soccer-mad nation feared another early exit after the team disappeared from the last two World Cups in the quarter-finals and made an embarrassing departure after the first round of Euro 2000.
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