World Cup - This might be more interesting for some of you

[Chewy]

france and korea, but maybe I was mistaken about france

[sonic_emperor]

i think youre mistaken bout both,i think times when france ment something passed,they should get a new,young team for the future

[Chewy]

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,1783710,00.html#

had france ranked fifth in the world
11-1 to win

[uufta]

lfc, in that poll, it was Heidi all the way, sorry, I mean Germany LOL

I am still out there on a limb with Italy though

[sonic_emperor]

france didnt show any extraordinary play yet...we'll see
cant believe argentina smashed serbia-montenegro 6-0!!!!
they didnt diserve it - or did they?

[Chewy]

Often overshadowed by their South American neighbors, Argentina have proved to be a team no one wants to face -- even Brazil's coach, Carlos Alberto Parreira, admitted they are side he fears most.

ranked 5th in the world

[sonic_emperor]

ranks dont mean that much on worldcup...croatia beat argentina 3:2 in a friendly game and we're 23th

[Chewy]

friendly game

you mean practise? exhibition?

On paper T&T shouldn't have stood a chance against England, unless the clubs they(T&T) play for, make them sit on the bench for the wrong reasons.

[sonic_emperor]

i mean a game not in any cup

[blutach]

Friendlies are just that - both teams wanna win, but not at the expense of hurting a player or anything. It's a bit of a warm up/practice match. Exhibition is too light a word for it.

Regards

[Chewy]

Something weird I ran into was the "continent" advantage. But this world cup should negate that.

[blutach]

That's only for people who are in continents!!!!



Regards

[sonic_emperor]

in a way a fact is that brasil had/s problems with becoming world champion on european soil

[Chewy]

Since its inception, brought into the world by two Frenchmen, Jules Rimet and Henri Delaunay, 76 years ago, there have been 17 World Cups. Brazil has

played the final match seven times, and won five. Germany has also reached the final seven times, winning three.

And the only country in history to have won outside its continent has been? You guessed it, Brazil. The team of Pelé triumphed in Sweden in 1958. In 1994, a more functional Brazil than we had ever seen, marshaled by Carlos Dunga, won the final against Italy, on a penalty shoot-out, in the Pasadena Rose Bowl in California; and the team with a budding Ronaldinho, a magnificent Rivaldo, a tremendous goal-scoring Ronaldo, did it in South Korea and Japan four years ago.

http://iht.com/articles/2006/06/08/sports/wcfavorites.php

[sonic_emperor]

imo argentina should win world cup
today ghana surprised favourised czech republic
and i wish that USA beats Italy,but every1 knows that odds are not so good