Pre-Game Primer - Some Highlights

For the full pre-game press notes, click here

Some highlights:

• Jonathan Spector and Jay DeMerit have stepped in to start and play 90 minutes in three straight games for a total of 270 minutes each. For Spector, that's more minutes than he played for the U.S. from June 13, 2007, until the start of the Confederations Cup, and for DeMerit that's more minutes than he played from June 29, 2007, until facing Italy on June 15.