2010 World Cup

[moses]

From what I heard it's full of dinos in that team now. :p

lol nah the dinos retired now its younge tards who cant realy play but meh italia for the win

[Rabbid Thom]

Brazil might not even be in the world cup so i wouldn't count on them getting too far lads and lasses

it'll be a european final i think

[LegendaryA]

That's my current bet. I'm not even attempting to guess who will be 2nd in Brazil's group!

Group 1
* South Africa - ???
* Mexico - 1st
* Uruguay - ???
* France - 2nd

Group 2
* Argentina - 1st
* South Korea - 2nd
* Nigeria - 3rd
* Greece -4th

Group 3
* UK - 1st
* USA - 2nd
* Algeria - 4th
* Slovenia - 3rd

Group 4
* Germany - 1st
* Australia - 3rd
* Ghana - 2nd
* Serbia - 4th

Group 5
* Netherlands - 1st
* Japan - 4th
* Cameroun - 2nd
* Danemark - 3rd

Group6
* Italia - 1st
* New-Zealand - 4th
* Paraguay - 2nd
* Slovaquia - 3rd

Group 7
* Brasil - 1st
* North Korea - 4th
* Ivory Coast - ??
* Portugal - ??

Group 8
* Spain - 1st
* Honduras - 4th
* Chili - 2nd
* Suisse - 3rd

[~LordRse~]

Holland will be the new world champion

[GOLDEN WING]

hahaha check lol have a look South Africa are *Filtered*

[LegendaryA]

Uruguay aren't a bad team at all, but Mexico I expect them to be the main problem for my country. Uruguay will have same quality as SA because SA is at home, and Uruguay is good mid-level South American team.
I base myself on last Copa America...where Mexico ended in top 4, if not mistaken.
One of hard to guess groups.

As for Brazil's group, it's two superstars facing, and two strong collectives for second place (admitting Brazil is #1). Wonder who will have upper hand.

[minisaiyan]

ballack is supposedly out for the world cup.

[LegendaryA]

ballack is supposedly out for the world cup.

Yeah I read that on fifa dot com. Well that's bad for Germany.

Looks like Uruguay are on the move forward, and Mexico not so well. But well Israel team is neither England nor Netherlands...

USA 2-4 Czech Republic, hmmm looks like Czechs again had upper hand with USA..

[GrizzZzzly]

I have a bone to pick....

Dunga.

How does he pick his team Ronaldinho plays a good solid season at AC Milan, and Dunga picks Robinho, who hasn't actually played any football this year lol. Been going all over the place after problems at Man City. Sure both players are good and both should be in the team in my opinion but damn that guy makes odd decisions. He also ruled out Adriano. Not sure how good he's been recently so I can't comment. He ruled out Ronaldo and Roberto Carlos which is fair enough. But for the love of God why did he leave Pato behind. He's a superstar in the making.......if I had a shotgun........

[Dmonix]

Essien is out, Ghana look a little dented now

On the plus side I was at Soccer City last night to watch Bafana Bafana take on Columbia, not the most spectacular game to watch but a win is a win

ballack is supposedly out for the world cup.

Yup, sad to see him ruled out.

And as for bone picking managers, why did Gerrard lose his captaincy

[LegendaryA]

I hope Ireland wins their tonight match by several goals. (Ireland - Algeria)
And may the best win between Paraguay and Ivory Coast! (even though I likely expect Ivory Coast to win by one goal difference)

[Dmonix]

Cote D'Ivoire

Yay for African teams, we representing, I still can't believe Egypt didn't qualify

Also Pops the number 12 shirt is where it's at for France

[Juliette]

Holland will be the new world champion

Yes.

[LegendaryA]

Cote D'Ivoire

Yay for African teams, we representing, I still can't believe Egypt didn't qualify

Also Pops the number 12 shirt is where it's at for France

I know, I found only this tux, but I found another, changing asap.

Côte d'Ivoire, well that's the french/ivoirian way of saying it.

I was wrong, 2-2 draw between Paraguay and Côte d'Ivoire.

[Dmonix]

IN THE NEWS (Seriously I bought a newspaper, I feel dirty)

Article on current greats of the game and why they aren't coming there was an extra bit on players who aren't coming because their country didn't qualify but that's a meeeh to type out

RETIRED

Edwin van der Sar (Holland)
Paul Scholes (England)

INJURED

Michael Ballack (Germany)
Mourad Meghni (Algeria)
Lassana Diarra (France)
David Beckham (England)
Michael Essien (Ghana)

NOT SELECTED

Javier Zanetti (Argentina)
Esteban Cambiasso (Argentina)
Alexandre Pato (Brazil)
Roberto Carlos (Brazil)
Ronaldinho (Brazil)
Neymar (Brazil)
Adriano (Brazil)
Scott McDonald (Australia)
Juan Roman Riquelme (Argentina)
Karim Benzema (France)
Samir Nasri (France)
Patrick Vieira (France)
Michael Owen (England)
Ruud van Nistlerooy (Netherlands)
Raul (Spain)
Kevin Kuranyi (Germany)
Alessandro Nesta (Italy)
Francesco Totti (Italy)
Alessandro Del Piero (Italy)
Luca Toni (Italy)
Fabio Grosso (Italy)