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Q: Starting in 1996, Alexa Internet has been donating their crawl data to the Internet Archive. Flowing in every day, these data are added to the Wayback Machine after an embargo period. ||||| The stage is set for the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil™ Final Draw. The Costa do Sauipe in the Brazilian state of Bahia will be the venue on Friday 6 December for the drawing of the eight groups. ||||| Yes, this is a hard group. 
  
 Really, it couldn’t have been more difficult. The Americans open the tournament against Ghana, who eliminated the U.S. in the last two World Cups, and then face two of Europe’s best teams in Portugal (in the Amazon rainforest) and Germany (who the U.S. lost to in the 1998 and 2002 World Cups). 
  
 Compounding the task of advancing to the second round is the ridiculous amount of travel facing the United States. The Americans will have logged nearly 9,000 miles after they complete group play. To recap: The U.S. will play the team that has ended their last two World Cup runs, one of the best players in the World, and a three-time World Cup champion. 
  
 In 20 years, there hasn’t been a harder Group of Death. But this is why it’s going to be OK. 
  
 The U.S. is fitter than any other team on earth. 
  
 There isn’t a team better suited to handle the rigors of travel and less-than-ideal conditions. For all the things the United States has lacked in the past, it has always been one of the fittest teams on the planet. No one wants to play in a rainforest, but if you do, the longer you can keep up the pressure the better you will be. These games won’t be won in the first 15 minutes, but they very well could be lost in the final 15. Who is going to be able to keep running on empty in the stifling jungle? Bet on the U.S. 
  
 Jurgen Klinsmann has made the roster deeper than ever before. 
  
 The lack of depth has plagued the U.S. for decades. They simply didn’t have the quality to last an entire month in 2010. The playmakers ran out of gas, and the team limped into its second round game against Ghana. That won’t be the case this year. The U.S. has a bench capable of maintaining that quality throughout the group stage. That quality will be especially important heading into the final match against Germany. 
  
 The U.S. is resilient. 
  
 Advancing out of the group stage has nothing to do with being the best team and everything to do with being the most consistent team. The U.S. has never won two matches in group play, and yet advanced out of their group in two of the last three World Cups. The 2010 Group of Death featured Brazil, North Korea, Ivory Coast, and Portugal playing some of the most uninspired, conservative soccer in recent memory. Brazil snatched first in that group with two wins and a draw, while Portugal took second with a win and two draws. 
  
 If the U.S. is able to knock off Ghana to start the tournament, they control their own destiny. A strong defensive shape, strong set pieces, and a scrappy mentality have served the Americans well in the past. It will again. 
  
 The U.S. is better. 
  
 The quality overall is simply better. This is a team that can survive without players who they leaned on heavily in years past, like Landon Donovan. If the U.S. drew this group in 2002, 2006, or 2010, it would have been too much to overcome. Not anymore, and not with this talent pool. The 2014 World Cup should be an opportunity for players like Graham Zusi and Omar Gonzalez to shine, and set into motion a new generation of American soccer. 
  
 It’s time to grow up. 
  
 American soccer has come a long way since 1990, and every World Cup, U.S. fans cross their fingers for a favorable draw. At some point, it’s time to buck up and embrace the challenge. When Paul Caliguiri hit the shot heard round the world against Trinidad in 1989, he launched U.S. soccer into a stratosphere it had never encountered. The ’90s saw the founding of Major League Soccer and the United States’ first appearance in the knockout stage since 1930. 
  
 That revolution started with a team in 1989 facing what seemed to be insurmountable odds. 
  
 Kind of like now. 
  
  ||||| Tracy A Woodward / Washington Post / Getty Images Fans watch as Ghana scores second goal in second half of their World Cup game agains the United States on June 26, 2010. 
  
 Oh Ghana, not again. For the last two World Cups, the road to the semifinals for the United States went through Ghana. And it’s been a dead end. In South Africa in 2010, the U.S. surrendered a goal in extra time to lose 2-1 in the second round. In Germany in 2006, the U.S. got punched out of the group stage 2-1 by Ghana, courtesy of a penalty call that was as mysterious as the Higgs Boson. 
  
 And facing their nemesis isn’t the worst news coming out of the World Cup draw for the U.S. After Ghana, the U.S. plays Portugal, which merely has one of the best players on earth to call on, Cristiano Ronaldo. And he will be banging on goalkeeper Tim Howard’s door. Then, the U.S. plays Germany in Manaus, the most undesirable of the Cup cities given its location in the steamy Amazon. 
  
 The U.S.-Germany matchup is an intriguing one given that current U.S. coach Jurgen Klinsmann was the head man at Germany for the 2006 World Cup and won the world championship as a player in 1990. Klinsmann has spent the last year running the U.S. up against tough European teams to prepare his squad for the this kind of draw. But he might not have imagined it would be this. “It’s one of the most difficult groups in the whole draw,�? he said. “It couldn’t get any more difficult or any bigger. But that’s what the World Cup is all about.�? 
  
 Can you say Group of Death? 
  
 (MORE: World Cup Draw Goes Forward, But Host Brazil Lags Behind) 
  
  ||||| Photo by Phil Cole/Getty Images 
  
 This morning's World Cup draw could have gone worse for the American squad—but perhaps not by much. 
  
 Josh Voorhees Josh Voorhees is a Slate senior writer. He lives in Iowa City. 
  
 When the U.S. team heads to Brazil next summer they'll square off in the opening round robin with two traditional powerhouses—Germany and Portugal—and an African team, Ghana, that has proved to be something of a bogeyman for the U.S. men's team. I imagine the early reaction in all three of those nations as they saw their team's draw went something like this: "Well, at least we have the Americans." 
  
  
  
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 Germany is currently ranked no. 2 in FIFA's (far-from-perfect) world rankings, and Portugal is no. 5. Ghana, ranked no. 24, is the only squad in the group with a worse ranking than the no. 14 Americans, although the Black Stars have eliminated the U.S. team in each of the past two World Cups. 
  
  
  
 The U.S. squad will kick things off against Ghana on June 16 in a game that they can't afford to lose. They then face Portugal on June 22, and finish up group play against Germany on June 26. 
  
  
  
 Only two teams in each group advance out of pool play, so that means the Americans, as red hot as they've been this year, will need to send either the Germans or the Portuguese home early. In case that wasn't daunting enough, the Americans will also have the worst travel schedule of any team in the competition. (No, really, like 9,000-miles bad.) 
  
  
  
 I was all ready to post this under the headline "USA Eliminated From 2014 World Cup in Today's Draw" but then I saw that the number crunchers are actually giving the Americans a better-than-expected chance of escaping the group—according to the Nate Silver-led Soccer Power Index, Germany has a 91.8-percent chance of moving on, Portugal a 40.2-percent chance, the USMNT a 39.3-percent chance, and Ghana a 28.8-percent chance. Those numbers aside, I tend to share the pessimism of ESPN's Roger Bennett: "Brightside for US Team: Their players will be able to swap jerseys with some world superstars after the games." 
  
  
  
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 The best-case draw for the U.S. team would have looked something like this: Switzerland, widely considered to be by far the weakest of the eight seeded teams in Pot 1; Croatia, currently no. 16 in the FIFA rankings; and Algeria, no. 26. According to Silver and the SPI, that draw would have given the Americans a 73-percent chance of surviving group play. 
  
  
  
 The worst-case scenario, meanwhile, would have seen the Americans draw defending World Cup champions Spain, no. 15-ranked Chile, and no. 19 France. The way Silver saw things, that combination would have given the U.S. only a 15-percent chance of playing into the elimination rounds. 
  
  
  
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The World Cup 2014 draw was today, and it did not go well for the US. It seems the good old USA will have to face off against Germany, Portugal, and perhaps most terrifyingly of all, Ghana, in Group G, in what commentators are widely calling the "group of death." Germany currently sits at No. 2 in FIFA's rankings, Portugal is No. 5, and while Ghana is only 24—well below the US' 14—it has also eliminated the US in two straight World Cups. (You can see the full draw here.) "I imagine the early reaction in all three of those nations as they saw their team's draw went something like this, 'Well, at least we have the Americans,'" writes Josh Voorhees at Slate. "Group of death? Nope. It's worse than that," reads one headline at Time. "Really, it couldn't have been more difficult," agrees Mike Floss at USA Today. But Floss actually believes fans should quit whining. "It's time to grow up," he writes. "American soccer has come a long way since 1990 … At some point it's time to buck up and embrace the challenge." And it might not be as insurmountable as it looks; ESPN's Nate Silver-led prediction model gives the US a 39.3% chance to advance.