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This article is about the US national team at the 2014 Football World Cup. The US team participated in the final for the tenth time.

Qualification
The team qualified for the World Cup in Brazil via the qualification matches of CONCACAF.

The team only took part from the third qualifying round and the team met under national coach Jürgen Klinsmann on Jamaica, Guatemala and for the first time on Antigua and Barbuda. Here, with four wins, a draw and a defeat from six games, the first group place was taken and the fourth qualifying round was reached.

Once again, the US national team became the group winner in the fourth qualifying round, where Mexico, Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama and again Jamaica waited as opponents, with Jamaica being coached by Winfried Schäfer at the last game against the USA.

The best scorer of the US team was Clint Dempsey with eight goals, who also played the most games (14 of 16) and on the 6th. September 2013 against Costa Rica his 100. The international game. Overall, Jürgen Klinsmann used 38 players in the 16 games. In July 2013 – between the sixth and seventh match of the fourth round – the US team still won the CONCACAF Gold Cup 2013, using four players who were not used in the qualifiers.

Third round

6. June 2012:
USA – Antigua and Barbuda 3:1 (2:0)

12. June 2012:
Guatemala – USA 1:1 (0:1)

7. September 2012:
Jamaica – USA 2:1 (1:1)

11. September 2012:
USA – Jamaica 1:0 (0:0)

12. October 2012:
Antigua and Barbuda – USA 1:2 (1:1)

16. October 2012:
USA – Guatemala 4:1 (2:0)

Fourth round

6. February 2013:
Honduras – USA 2:1 (1:1)

22. March 2013:
USA – Costa Rica 1:0 (1:0)

26. March 2013:
Mexico – USA 0:0

7. June 2013:
Jamaica – USA 1:2 (0:1)

11. June 2013:
USA – Panama 2:0 (1:0)

18. June 2013:
USA – Honduras 1:0 (0:0)

6. September 2013:
Costa Rica – USA 3:1 (2:1)

10. September 2013:
USA – Mexico 2:0 (0:0)

11. October 2013:
USA – Jamaica 2:0 (0:0)

15. October 2013:
Panama – USA 2:3 (1:0)

Preparation
In January 2014, a 14-day training camp took place in the later World Cup quarter in Brazil, which was followed on 1 February by a test match in Carson against South Korea, which was won 2-0 by two goals of Chris Wondolowski. On March 5, a test match took place in Larnaka in Cyprus against Ukraine, which was originally to take place in Kharkiv and was lost 0-2. On April 2, the team met in Glendale on Mexico. The game ended after 2:0 lead 2:2. On May 27, there was a game in San Francisco against the team of Azerbaijan trained by Berti Vogts, who later became Special Advisor at the World Cup for the USA. The goals in the 2-0 victory were scored by Mikkel Diskerud and Aron Johannsson. On June 1 there was a test match against Turkey in Harrison, which was won 2-1 (goal)