The teams from Germany, USA and Switzerland move to the next round.

2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa: The teams from Germany, USA and Switzerland move to the next round. Join the fun at one of the soccer viewing parties in the US. Click here for a listing.

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The German team will start out in a tricky group at the 2010 FIFA World Cup which will kick off on June 11, 2010, in South Africa and after injuries suffered by some of Germany’s top player like Michael Ballack, Christian Trasch, and Heiko Westermann, the national team coach Joachim Loew did not have an easy task to put the final list of players together.

On June 1, 2010, he announced that the following 23 man will be Germany’s FIFA World Cup squad:

Goalkeepers: Manuel Neuer (Schalke), Tim Wiese (Werder Bremen), Hans-Jorg Butt (Bayern Munich)

Defenders: Dennis Aogo (Hamburg), Holger Badstuber (Bayern Munich), Jerome Boateng (Hamburg), Arne Friedrich (Hertha Berlin), Marcell Jansen (Hamburg), Philipp Lahm (Bayern Munich), Per Mertesacker (Werder Bremen), Serdar Tasci (Stuttgart)

Midfielders: Sami Khedira (Stuttgart), Toni Kroos (Bayer Leverkusen), Marko Marin (Werder Bremen), Mesut Ozil (Werder Bremen), Bastian Schweinsteiger (Bayern Munich), Piotr Trochowski (Hamburg)

Forwards: Cacau (Stuttgart), Mario Gomez (Bayern Munich), Stefan Kiessling (Bayer Leverkusen), Miroslav Klose (Bayern Munich), Thomas Muller (Bayern Munich), Lukas Podolski (Cologne).

Germany will play its first 2010 FIFA World Cup match on June 13, 2010 at 11.30 AM (PST) against Australia, the USA on June 12, 2010 at 11.30 AM (PST) facing England, and Switzerland on June 16, 2010, at 7 AM (PST), against Spain.

Click here for a complete match schedule:
http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/matches/index.html

We love this: Evolution of the World Cup Ball on the New York Times Website

Terrific World Cup Schedule Visualization

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