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On the 10th of june the World Cup kicks off, I’m sure there are a lot of forum members who will watch this event.
So here’s a topic to discuss the World Cup .
Group A
1 Costa Rica 0 0 0
2 Ecuador 0 0 0
3 Germany 0 0 0
4 Poland 0 0 0
Group B
1 England 0 0 0
2 Paraguay 0 0 0
3 Sweden 0 0 0
4 Trinidad and Tobago 0 0 0
Group C
1 Argentina 0 0 0
2 Holland 0 0 0
3 Ivory Coast 0 0 0
4 Serbia & Montenegro 0 0 0
Group D
1 Angola 0 0 0
2 Iran 0 0 0
3 Mexico 0 0 0
4 Portugal 0 0 0
Group E
1 Czech Republic 0 0 0
2 Ghana 0 0 0
3 Italy 0 0 0
4 USA 0 0 0
Group F
1 Brazil 0 0 0
2 Croatia 0 0 0
3 Australia 0 0 0
4 Japan 0 0 0
Group G
1 France 0 0 0
2 South Korea 0 0 0
3 Switzerland 0 0 0
4 Togo 0 0 0
Group H
1 Saudi Arabia 0 0 0
2 Spain 0 0 0
3 Tunisia 0 0 0
4 Ukraine 0 0 0
Anyone who dares to make predictions of group winners and runner ups? Finalists ?
The candidate to be something I don’t remember in Korea promised that the Korean team would at least get to the quarters of finals. And so it has been. Exactly like he said. But you could see it was rigged from 10km away. The match against Italy has been the peak of the whole thing, the referee that ruined the game has also been expelled by the football organization, besides becoming a negative legend. After Korea got where it was supposed to get, it got eliminated. That seems so weird to me.
Is it true what I’m hearing in the news about their fears of possible terrorist attacks or threats of such? I hope not. Soccer games, especially something so awesome like this, are always great to watch.
Germany will be awfully dangerous cause they are in their own country and they always play very well during World Cups. And Brazil has one of the best teams they ever had and a great coach too. They should meet in final, like in the last World Cup.
I think there could be a lot of surprises, especially in Group A with Costa Rica, Group C with Cote d’Ivoire, Group E with USA and group B with… Trinidad and Tobago, cause they are very motivated! Switzerland is in a great form too. The teams levels have become more equal since the 2 last World Cups so that it will be very open!
As a pronostic, I would say the semi-finals will be: Germany vs. Italy and England vs. Brazil.
Alright, I’m not a soccer fan but I am a sports fan. And watching any ‘World’ competition is fun not to mention the passion with which these guys play with.
If someone could explain so that I can somewhat follow your comments I’d be greatful.
How many teams are there now competing? Or is it all teams and and losers are eliminated until there are two teams left?
And Basilus, I totally agree with what you’re saying as far as Germany being dangerous in this series. Anyone playing at home, has home court advantage… plus the fans do something magical with raising team spirits.
My brothers grandparents are from Trinidad & Tobago, even though me and him are both white, which is pretty cool. Anyways, they’re pretty psyched about it.
In this World Cup, I expect Germany to do well, as well as England. I don’t like Brazil, they’re too good. Perhaps they’re extreme goodness will work against themselves. Its always a possibilty.
The 32 teams which managed to qualify for the World Cup are splitted into 8 groups. You can see the groups in Fadem’s first post. By the way, there is an error in the first post cause group F is Brazil, Croatia, Australia, Japan. Could you correct it, Fadem? Inside of each group, every team meet each other and the two best teams are qualified.
For instance, USA will play against in group E Italy and Czech republic which are two very very strong teams. But I wouldn’t be surprised too much that they create a big surprise cause since 8 years, they became very strong too.
Then there is a second round with the 16 qualified teams. It’s a direct elimination tournament, with quarter finals, semi finals and final, like in tennis. The positions in the tournament tree are determined by the first round results : for instance winner of group A meets second of group B, and winner of group B meets second of group A - and the same with groups C and D, E and F, H and G.
For instance, if USA manage to have the second place in group E, they’ll probably meet Brazil and it will be a lot harder.
I tried to create this post 5 times, each time I got interupted/accidentally pressed browser’s X… please, not this time again @_@
Ok, so for anyone who wants to do a prediction…:
Winner A vs Runner-up B -> Q1
Winner C vs Runner-up D -> Q2
Winner E vs Runner-up F -> Q3
Winner G vs Runner-up H -> Q4
Winner B vs Runner-up A -> Q5
Winner D vs Runner-up C -> Q6
Winner F vs Runner-up E -> Q7
Winner H vs Runner-up G -> Q8
Q1 vs Q2 -> S1
Q3 vs Q4 -> S2
Q5 vs Q6 -> S3
Q7 vs Q8 -> S4
S1 vs S2 -> F1
S3 vs S4 -> F2
Losing teams in S1 vs S2 and S3 vs S4 play a match for third place.
Australia (Yup, the socceroos might go to the next round)
Japan
Croatia
G.
France
South Korea
Switzerland
Togo
H.
Spain
Ukraine
Saudi Arabia
Tunisia
Germany vs Sweden -> Germany
Argentina vs Mexico -> Argentina
Czech Republic vs Australia -> Czech Republic
France vs Ukraine -> Ukraine (ftw XD)
England vs Poland -> England
Portugal vs Holland (!) -> Holland
Brazil vs Italy (!) -> Brazil
Spain vs South Korea -> Spain
Germany vs Argentina -> Argentina
Czech Republic vs Ukraine -> Czech Republic
England vs Holland (!) -> Holland? ?
Brazil vs Spain (!) -> Brazil
Argentina vs Czech Republic -> Though one, Argentina?
Holland vs Brazil -> Brazil
3rd place match:
Holland vs Czech Republic -> Czech Republic
OOo… I see Ghana on there. I went to school with a guy that has a brother or nephew that plays for their team. Or atleast that’s what he said.
Thanks Basilus for the briefing, I get it now. Cool Breakdown Fadem. I just might be caught watching a game. But I’ll definitely be watching the comments that are posted here.
Trinidad and Tobago! (very motivated for their first participation into a world cup! )
Sweden (oops! sorry for all the LD4all swedish members )
Paraguay
C
Holland
Argentina
Ivory Coast
Serbie & Montenegro
D.
Portugal
Mexico
Iran
Angola
E
Italy
USA (second surprise, USA wins Czech Republic! )
Czech Republic
Ghana
F
Brazil
Australia
Croatia
Japan
Australia, Croatia and Japan make a tie and are just decided between by goal average…
G.
France
Switzerland
Corea
Togo
H
Ukraine
Tunisia (third big surprise, the CAN 2004 winner, directed by Roger Lemerre, eliminates Spain! ).
Spain
Saudi arabia
Germany vs. Trinidad and Tobago -> Germany (all good things come to an end )
Holland vs. Mexico -> Holland
Italy vs. Australia -> Italy
France vs. Tunisia -> Tunisia (the new french coach against the former one. Lemerre takes his revenge! Domenech is fired. )
England vs. Costa Rica -> England
Portugal vs. Argentina -> Argentina
Brazil vs. USA -> Brazil
Switzerland vs. Ukraine -> Switzerland (go Switzerland, go!)
Germany vs. Holland -> Germany
Italy vs. Tunisia -> Italy
England vs. Argentina -> England
Brazil vs. Switzerland - > Brazil
Germany vs. Italy -> Germany
Brazil vs. England -> Brazil
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Finalists 
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Switzerland is in a great form too. The teams levels have become more equal since the 2 last World Cups so that it will be very open!
I’m serious. I don’t like the effect Brazil winning would have to the presidential elections.
Could you correct it, Fadem? Inside of each group, every team meet each other and the two best teams are qualified.
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