United States Men’s National Team boss Jurgen Klinsmann has told his players they will be playing for glory, fame and fortune at the World Cup.

Except for a few exceptions, the USMNT are one of those low key teams in the World Cup who do not have much to expect from the showpiece event of the beautiful game but the former World Cup winner has said this is where the players need to perform if they want to sky rocket their careers to the stratosphere.

The German has told the players that they can put the top clubs on notice by their performance in the World Cup.

Klinsmann told the media that this is the stage for the players where they can prove they are ready to take their careers to the next level or even higher than that. He went on to add that there is no better event than the World Cup and whoever steps on to the pitch, should embrace this opportunity, give it a smile and go for it.

Jurgen Klinsmann knows a thing or two about going for glory at the biggest stage of them all when he won the World Cup with West Germany back at Italia ’90.

There have been countless instances where players secure big money moves – often for extremely inflated values – on the back of their performances at the World Cup and the former Bayern Munich boss wants his players to put them on the market with a strong run in the tournament.

Not many people expect the USMNT to get out of the Group of Death, Group G, which features the likes of Ghana, Germany and Portugal but Jurgen Klinsmann wouldn’t mind as long as the team can give a good account of themselves and go out with a big bang.

The US national team manager Jurgen Klinsmann has sensationally claimed that his team are behind the preparations for the World Cup 2014. The US are expected to have the toughest World Cup campaign of the lot after being grouped alongside Germany, Portugal, and Ghana. All four teams realistically come into the tournament with aspirations of reaching the knockout stages, but only two can reach this stage. Klinsmann accepted when the draw was made that it would be tough for the US to reach the knockout stages.

Now, he has further darkened in the mood by suggesting that the US are well behind their schedule for preparation. He recently named the squad of 30 players, which will be cut down to 23 in the first week of June. There have already been several surprises in the squad with DC United midfielder Eddie Johnson being one of the high-profile absentees. The three group opponents start their training next week after the end of the league season in Europe. On the other hand, the US have already started preparing for the World Cup and were greeted with intense heat of the Stanford stadium.

Klinsmann says that the players in Europe will be coming into the tournament at the peak of their condition, while the US players have to improve a lot.

“Their foundation is different than ours. A lot of our guys do not have the same foundation as our opponents have. We have to catch up. That’s the work we have to do now over the next three weeks before we start our tournament. Hopefully, we catch up and even add a little bit more on top of it. That’s what starts today. We combine it all in an exciting way. With the ball, with small-sided games with a lot of action there, so we’re not going to be running through the forest here even if it’s beautiful,” said Klinsmann.