U.S. faces Azerbaijan in World Cup tune-up
Berti Vogts is literally working both sides. As soon as he's done coaching Azerbaijan against the Americans in a World Cup warm-up Tuesday night in San Francisco, Vogts will return to his other important soccer gig: scouting U.S. World Cup opponents as a special adviser to Jurgen Klinsmann.
Berti Vogts is literally working both sides.
As soon as he's done coaching Azerbaijan against the Americans in a World Cup warm-up Tuesday night in San Francisco, Vogts will return to his other important soccer gig: scouting U.S. World Cup opponents as a special adviser to Jurgen Klinsmann.
"I've never seen or heard that before," U.S. midfielder Graham Zusi said. "That's just the way it is sometimes."
Vogts expects about half of Azerbaijan's 9 million people to be watching the game on TV when it will be 7 a.m. in the former Soviet republic. The match at Candlestick Park is the first of three World Cup warm-ups for the United States before departing for Sao Paulo.
Vogts, 67, won the World Cup with West Germany in 1974 as a player and is in his seventh year coaching Azerbaijan.
Unrest in Brazil
The players picked by Brazil coach Luiz Felipe Scolari reported to the national team as a few hundred demonstrators loudly protested against the money being spent by the local government on the World Cup.
The protesters surrounded the bus carrying the players from their hotel in Rio de Janeiro to the training camp in the mountain city of Teresopolis.