World Cup Coverage Starts Tomorrow

With less than a month to go now before the greatest football and indeed sporting competition on the planet, Seattle’s own international football site Prost Amerika will launch its World Cup coverage tomorrow.

We kick off by welcoming back, Seattle’s favourite Mexico fan, Jose Romero to the football writing fraternity by unveiling his guide to Group A, which includes Thierry Henry’s France, Uruguay, hosts South Africa and Jose’s beloved Mexico. Can Jose bring himself to predict anything other than a Mexican triumph over the land of the Arc de Triomphe?

The list of our star contributors doesn’t end there. Fox Soccer Channel’s Chief Soccer Analyst, Bobby McMahon, will be joining us. He will be looking at the intriguing group where Europe seems to rule supreme, Group E, and examining whether the balance of global football power can be wrested from Europe on African soil. The temperamental Dutch must see off a challenge from the ever calm Danes, the Indomitable Lions of Cameroon and wild card, hard to beat Japan.

The futbol corespondent of nuestronoroeste.com, Jorge Rivera, selected Group H where three countries speak one language and the other speaks three! Blaise Nkufo’s Switzerland take on el trio espanol of Spain, Chile and CONCACAF’s own Hondurans.Who will he tip, Seattle’s adopted neutral country, or his field of expertise which includes the wily Chileans? If he tips the Swiss, will he dare run it in his column Hablemos Futbol?

For Group C, the big one, where many see the battle as being between England and the USA, where else could we go to see the American Revolution rerun but Boston to get to the bottom of it. Kyle McCarthy is one of the most respected and knowledgeable football writers in the States, and is the lead football writer for the Boston Herald, as well as a frequent guest on Radio Sounders. Slovenia and Algeria make up the group but can Kyle resist the temptation to play safe in his predictions? Either way, his analysis will be as complete as you can get about this fascinating Group.

The toughest Group of all to call may be Group D, which sees the perennial top performers of Germany, play highly unpredictable and hard to beat Australia, the best side in Africa Ghana, and the side who topped France’s qualifying group, Serbia. Given our roots, we could only ask a German and no-one is more passionate and knowledgeable about the Nationalelf than Alex Eckardt, Sounders season ticket holder, real German and organiser of the his own World Cup fest, the Phinney Neighbourhood Association World Cup party.  Alex has been ein guter Freund of both Prost Amerika and the Sounders before either was famous, and will be totally impartial in telling us who will come second to Germany.

We hope to have more special writers appear throughout the tournament, and of course, will be adding our own reporting and analysis, with the people who bring you the best match reports in Seattle on a weekly basis.

So stay tuned to Prost Amerika and join us on a month of sleeplessness, surprises, disappointment and elation.

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