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U.S. vs. England: An Illustrated Guide

Posted by on Friday, June 11th, 2010 at 8:21 pm in Diary, Illustrated Maps | 4

Courtesy once again of the brilliant Bill’s Sports Maps, here are your illustrated guides to the England and U.S. World Cup squads birthplaces, as well as plenty of other details you just might not know about each squad. Geographical/cultural conclusions on each are yours to be drawn and posted below.

Click on each image for the full-size version.

United States

Illustrated map of United States Soccer Squad

England

Illustrated Guide to the England World Cup Squad

Check out more of Bill’s brilliant maps at Bill’s Sports Maps.

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4 Comments

  1. Anonymous Coward
    June 11, 2010 • 9:29 pm

    Damn. Marcus Hahnemann looks great for 72!

  2. FootballMS
    June 12, 2010 • 6:35 am

    Interestingly the US squad seems to herald from specific states. Is this in line with the popular areas of soccer?

  3. Tom Dunmore
    June 12, 2010 • 10:27 am

    Thanks for noticing that, AC — it’s been corrected.

    FootballMS, you should check out Andrew Guest’s related post here on that.