the U.S. is gonna need their big players to step up and do what they have been doing before the cup, i think it was a good idea for Arena to call out his players for being lazy and not playing to their full potential, as a team they cannot just sit back and put in half effort, when you are up agianst teams like czech and italy this weekend, you need the best from everyone. brazil looked good but ronaldo is getting fat and being a lazy bitch, not impressed, adriano wasnt as powerful as i hoped he would be. the only team that i am impressed with so far is ecuador. they absolutly outplayed poland and took it back to the basics, making crisp passes and making simple but effective runs. spain looked good but also got some good calls in their favor, hopefully they dont fall off. australia looked really strong and so did south korea, i am looking for south korea to be the sleeper this year, they are so quick and just make things happen faster than any team can play with. mexico got a lucky goal or two against iran and i hope iran can pull out a couple wins against portugal and angola to move on, they are a really good team that should do some damage. Overall after seeing all the teams play i would say that brazil needs to step up and play the way they can play and have fun, if they do that they will be fine, the U.S. is going to have to play amazing ball from here on out in order to have a shot at it, Germany is looking good and their coach is making really good choices with his subs and style of play, i expect them to make it far, and england is my last choice to make it far simply becuase none of the other teams in their group are playing good solid soccer. I expect Brazil in the final againtst Argentina hopefully, that game would be so out of control, but its too early to really tell, just what i want to see