After just a single match in the final World Cup qualifying tournament, U.S. national team coach Jurgen Klinsmann said his squad is facing a "must-win" game against Costa Rica in Denver Friday night.
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Muralitharan retired from Test cricket last year but remained in the limited-overs set-up although he announced in January that the World Cup would be his final international tournament.
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With five of the 13 venues requiring a final inspection by World Cup tournament director Professor Ratnakar Shetty and the central organising committee (COC), the ICC's report approved Mumbai and the Sri Lankan venues - Colombo's R Premadasa Stadium, Hambantota and Pallekele - subject to minor finishing work to be completed within 14 days.
This is the final tournament before the World Cup, but we're very conscious that San Diego is the job in hand, and we've got to do well here before turning our attention to Dubai.
Rankin, who played for Ireland in the final of the ICC World Cup qualifying tournament in South Africa on Sunday, conceded only a single in his first five overs, but Carberry was able to score freely against less testing bowling at the other end.
Despite having retired from international football, he agreed to return for France as they struggled to qualify for last year's World Cup before going on to reach the final of the tournament, only to lose to Italy in July 2006.
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England recorded a 24-13 victory in the 2008 Six Nations tournament and won the World Cup semi-final 14-9 at the Stade de France in October 2007.
Scolari will be under pressure to deliver in 2014, with fans eager to avoid a repeat of the 1950 World Cup when Brazil lost out to Uruguay in the final match of the tournament.
Cruyff was named man of the tournament at the 1974 World Cup, but his team lost the final 2-1 to West Germany.
In 2009, the team finally won through to the final qualifying round for the ICC's 50-over World Cup tournament, scraping through after winning a rain-affected match against Uganda.
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Cameroon will be playing at the Under-20 World Cup for the fifth time and their best showing the tournament was a quarter-final place.
Should they only manage a draw, then New Zealand - 2000-1 to win the World Cup before the tournament started - could deny them with victory over Paraguay in their final Group F match.
Since reaching the final of the 2006 World Cup, the French have won just one of their 10 tournament matches and have exhibited an alarming tendency to unravel at the first sign of difficulty.
Slovakia's final touch in this World Cup was a positive one as Vittek stroked home a penalty for his fourth and final goal of the tournament after Stekelenburg had tripped the striker.
Lemerre's World Cup results with his former teams seems to reflect this mantra -qualification is vital, the results in the final tournament are sometimes less impressive.
Uruguay's appearance in the semi-final in Cape Town was their first in the last four of a World Cup since 1970 - after winning the tournament in 1930 and 1950.
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