The United States will be playing for the finals of the Confederation Cup against Brazil on Sunday June 28, the game will be played in Johannesburg, South Africa. This game means a lot more to the Americans than it does to Brazil, meaning that a win for the United State would be a greater feat to them than to their opponents.........

Winning for the USA will be a giant step towards next years World Cup 2010 and a win will motivate them to play world class soccer the rest of the way, we have seen that in the Confederation Cup the United States has been the only team to taste winning and loosing on both side of the tournament play, the only team to taste the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat, Brazil has only seen the winning side as they have been undefeated in Confederation Cup, only seeing the winning side.

The Americans are hungry, their intensity level and the desire to win has grown immensely since beating Egypt and Spain, they have tasted loosing and winning, this makes this group a dangerous opponent and Brazil will have their hands full with the Americans.

The word is that the Brazilians are hoping that the Americans will come out in this game in the offensive and attack Brazil's zone this would leave the Americans for counter attacks, where the Samba team is really good at, and not played like South Africa did, defensive where Brazil had difficulties counter attacking.

USA has beaten Brazil only one time (1-0 in 1998 Concafac Gold Cup), some folks would say amazing, unbelievable, spectacular, unreal - any adjective would apply.

When the Americans play Brazil in the Confederation Cup final Sunday, they have an opportunity to create an ultimate moment in U.S. soccer. The Americans have never won a FIFA tournament, this would be the first time they have made to a final and a victory over the best team in the world,that's my opinion, would signal that they are closer to becoming a world class team to the likes of Spain, England, Germany, Argentina and of course Brazil.

Brazil has nothing to prove, we all know that they have a good team and they will make the trip to the 2010 World Cup regardless of the outcome of this game, of course they don't want to loose the game, and this is just pride in winning, something that they have been doing for years.

Let's not forget that last week Brazil beat them 3-0 in group play. The lost left them on the verge of elimination, and there were some critics calling for Bradley's job, but now they are a different team, tasting loosing and winning has made them more aggressive and dangerous.

My opinion is that Bradley (USA coach) will have to put together a game plan that will surprise the Brazilians and come out with the victory, and I know this for a fact his players are ready and eager to play this game, Bradley would have to utilize that eagerness and motivation and put a good plan to beat the Brazilians and we can safely say that yes, this will come down down to the coach (Bradley's) game plan.