U.S. technical committee has Portuguese classes and makes "test" on the 1st day

Jurgen Klinsmann encourages learning the delegation before the World Cup, and auxiliary "verb expel" in contact with Brazilians. Technician arrives on Tuesday                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             

Jurgen Klinsmann requested that members of the delegation learned to speak Portuguese (Photo: Miguel Schin)

Nobody in the U.S. team will be interviewed in Portuguese during the World Cup, but much of the coaching staff is well prepared for simple everyday situations in CT Sao Paulo, chosen for training during the tournament site. In recent months, U.S. Soccer, American football federation, has provided online classes for each of the members led by German Jurgen Klinsmann. Some knowledge tested on the first day of work in Brazil.

On arrival of the delegation to CT, for example, the auxiliary Andreas Herzog gave a friendly "Good afternoon" to journalists - many of whom were American. Herzog, Austrian, was with the U.S. team in intertemporada held in January, which served for adaptation and closer relations with São Paulo.

The intention is to facilitate the everyday with the Sao Paulo club officials who will support during the World Cup. People who have more direct contact with Brazilians like wardrobes, for example, had these classes. Jurgen Klinsmann wants no gaps occur in the preparation because of a communication error.

The players, in turn, did not have classes. So why contact with Brazilians will be lower. The attacker Chris Wondolowski said he knows a few words in Portuguese, but by living we had with the Brazilian Benny Feilhaber, naturalized American and teammate at Sporting Kansas City, playing in the elite division of the United States (Major League Soccer).

- I was here in January, the "training camp", and also learned a few words with Benny. It is very rewarding to be back and live in this spectacular environment - Wondolowski said.

On Tuesday, Klinsmann and two German auxiliaries (Berti Vogts and Dietmar Hamann) join the delegation. They stayed one more night in Miami because they saw the friendly between Ghana and South Korea The African team is the first opponent of Americans, 16 in Natal.