YANKS EARNING THEIR STARS AND STRIPES

Without doubt Jurgen Klinsmann's soccer squad will be regarded as the best yet to come from the United States. As the Stars and Stripes play Belgium this evening, in what is proving to be an absorbing contest, they are now more famous than that "cobbled together" of amateurs that upset the highly favoured England side in the 1950 World Cup, also held in Brazil. The North Americans have come a long way!

With them in Salvador are thousands of "in your face" fans and back home over 60,000 supporters will watch the game on a huge screen in Soldier Field, adapted for the occasion. 25 million Americans watched the qualifier with Portugal game on TV, 14 million saw them lose to Germany, a morning airing but although there is growing enthusiasm for soccer, in 2014 the Super Bowl attracted 115 million viewers. Soccer has a long way to go!!

This World Cup is breaking records in many different fields. 

Brazil's game in Belo Horizonte registered 16.4 million tweets and Facebook recorded 220 million people making one billion posts since June 12th. The Brazil-Chile game was watched by the biggest TV audience in Israel for more than 2 years. 

Ps does Chris Waddle dye his hair?