America’s media darlings

Historically outsiders on the world’s biggest stage, Bruce Arena’s current USA starlets have been spoiled by recent successes. Furthermore, with a recent spike in their international ranking they are fast becoming media darlings on the eve of this, their fifth straight FIFA World Cup™ finals. When interviewed on a nationwide broadcast of Good Morning America, 24-year-old playmaker and veteran of Korea/Japan 2002 Landon Donovan – visibly bemused by recent media advances and uncommon public attention – remarked that “this is the first time we’ve had this kind of attention. In 2002 (before the Korea/Japan finals) there was none of this.”
At their pre-tournament training camp in Cary, North Carolina, the US team and their public relations officers were swamped by the incredible number of newspaper, radio, TV and internet reporters who turned out to follow the side’s progress before jetting out to Germany and their bustling base camp in downtown Hamburg.


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Rakib