After a long wait, the United States' soccer team knows who will be their opponents in the upcoming World Cup in South Africa. The group consists of England, Slovenia and Algeria. The U.S. team needs to prove the advances in the sport over the last years, which began with the hosting and organization of the World Cup in 1994. Since the World Cup in 1994, the U.S. National Team has shown major results in important tournaments, such as their participation in the Confederations Cup, where they beat the #1 ranked country in the world, Spain, in the semi-final of the tournament. Finishing the tournament in second place after being defeated by the powerful national team of Brazil should be considered a major achievement. The biggest adversary for the U.S. team will be England, who showed a very calm front after the draw through manager, Fabio Capello. This will be a solid opportunity for the U.S team to demonstrate the development of soccer in the country and to start to be treated as one of the key players in the future of soccer. However, to prove that they have to play their best game to advance to the second round  of the World Cup, and become one of the top 16 teams in the world. 

En una jugada parecida a la "Mano de Dios" de Diego Armando Maradona en los cuartos de final de la Copa Mundo 1986, el jugador frances, Thierry Henry, ha logrado clasificar a su equipo a la Copa Mundo 2010 mediante el uso eficiente de su mano, y a perjuicio del equipo irlandes.

A pesar de conocer el refran, que todo es valido en el amor y en la guerra, es nuestro parecer que el futbol deberia tener estandares mas altos. La inercia de la FIFA de entrar al siglo XXI y permitir que los jueces consulten una repeticion instantanea, como en otros deportes tales como el futbol americano, da pauta para que estas situaciones desafortunadas sigan pasando.