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Most Cursed Video-Game Cover Athletes 10

by Caleb Johnson on June 16, 2009 at 03:10 PM



The game: 'FIFA World Cup: Germany 2006'

The athlete(s): Claudio Reyna and the U.S. Men's Soccer Team.

The promise: With the sport's popularity growing around the country, the U.S. men's soccer team won its qualification tournament leading up to the World Cup. There was talk and hope that this could be America's chance to make a deep run in the world's most popular sporting event.

The letdown: The U.S.A. was placed in a group with three top-10 ranked teams--Italy, Ghana and the Czech Republic. The team won only a single match and failed to advance out of the first round. Like soccer, this video game also failed to catch on stateside.

Where are they now? The team is gearing up for another run at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.

Bust-O-Meter rating: 7 out of 10

CORRECTION: When we posted this story, we mistakenly put up an image featuring Frank Lambert of England's national team. Being an internationally popular game, the 'FIFA World Cup' franchise releases its games with covers targeted towards specific countries. Although the Frank Lambert graphic is in fact the cover of 'FIFA World Cup: Germany 2006,' it is the cover for the U.K. release, not of the U.S. release, which is what we've now correctly posted. Thank you for your constructive comments to that end. - Switched

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