2010 Fifa World Cup

[eg_eric]

Groups have been sorted, it's go time! Here are the groups:

Group A
1. South Africa
2. Mexico
3. Uruguay
4. France

Group B
1. Argentina
2. Nigeria
3. South Korea
4. Greece

Group C
1. England
2. USA
3. Algeria
4. Slovenia

Group D
1. Germany
2. Australia
3. Serbia
4. Ghana

Group E
1. Netherlands
2. Denmark
3. Japan
4. Cameroon

Group F
1. Italy
2. Paraguay
3. New Zealand
4. Slovakia

Group G
1. Brazil
2. North Korea
3. Cote D'voire
4. Portugal

Group H
1. Spain
2. Switzerland
3. Honduras
4. Chile

[kertejud2]

Fuck France and fuck those refs.

[eg_eric]

Originally posted by kertejud2
Fuck France and fuck those refs.

lol love the passion man

[Gainsbarre]

Not happy about the participants this time around, but then again if you're a Scotland fan, there isn't much to be happy about these days . So now I just resort to cheering against teams that I don't like. So I guess I'm now cheering for whoever is playing against South Africa / Australia / Portugal so that those three don't make it past the group stage. Oh and North Korea as well -- I hope they get disqualified or are forced to withdraw before the tournament even begins.

I thought it was ridiculous that Australia got to move over to the AFC and that Oceania gets 0.5 playoff spots -- kind of a free pass to New Zealand in my view (as long as they can win the intercontinental playoff against an AFC team). Maybe if Canada got to play in Oceania we could qualify for the world cup again.

[DJ_NAV]

GO ORANGE! just a great team... i hope they dont crash under pressure as they have throughout history.

[DJ_NAV]

Also a big fan of all the african teams.. they are just great to watch.. specifically ghana and ivory coast.

[Russo]

I m an Argentine fan, but they havent really done much to be a candidate yet,
but like DJ_NAv said Ivory Coast is an amazing team to watch!

[TeamBestBud]

Originally posted by kertejud2
Fuck France and fuck those refs.

[Gainsbarre]

Originally posted by DJ_NAV
Also a big fan of all the african teams.. they are just great to watch.. specifically ghana and ivory coast.

Oh ya...would love to see an African team at least advance to the semi-finals. And I would like to see the Oranje have a good tournament this time around -- was really pulling for them in the 98 World Cup and Euro 2000 when they had such a talented team with guys like Kluivert, Bergkamp, van Der Sar, Stam, Davids, and (because his name sounds so awesome) van Hooijdonk. Such a shame that they crashed out of both tournaments so painfully. Hopefully no more penalty shootouts!!!

[n1zm0]

Originally posted by eg_eric

With the final draw coming up December 4th, who would you like to see grouped together? Any predictions for the Group of Death? What's your Dream Final?

'DPRK' vs USA where the americans lose in the final hahah

but seriously, that list is not entirely definite is it (havent been following the qualifying) ? if not i'm surprised alot of the regular appearing teams didn't make it i.e: colombia, croatia, sweden, poland, no middle eastern countries?

[eg_eric]

Originally posted by Gainsbarre


Oh ya...would love to see an African team at least advance to the semi-finals.

with 6 teams in this time, it's a pretty good chance. and i mean it's not Angola and Togo this time, it's powerhouses Nigeria, Ghana, Ivory Coast, and Cameroon.

[eg_eric]

Originally posted by n1zm0


'DPRK' vs USA where the americans lose in the final hahah

but seriously, that list is not entirely definite is it (havent been following the qualifying) ? if not i'm surprised alot of the regular appearing teams didn't make it i.e: colombia, croatia, sweden, poland, no middle eastern countries?

yup, its the definite list (except for Costa Rica - Uruguay which will be decided tonight) qualifying ends today.

And you are correct, no Sweden, no poland, no Iraq, Iran, or Saudi Arabia, they all got knocked out.

[Gainsbarre]

Some controversial parings in the group stages might liven things up a bit...

Put Algeria/Germany/France in the same group. North Korea / South Korea / Japan / USA in another. Hell if North and South Korea get lumped into the same group, North Korea might refuse to play and quit the tournament . They did something fickle like that during qualification for the 1970 world cup. North Korea was scheduled to play a game against Israel (back when Israel was in the AFC), but North Korea refused and chose to withdraw from the tournament instead -- pretty certain this was because an Israeli guy was the referee in their match against Portugal that they lost in their exit from the 1966 world cup.

Then again, who knows. There was (kind of) a big deal in the run up to the 1998 World Cup when Iran and the USA were put into the same group. Nothing exactly happened in their match (other than IRAN convincingly defeating the USA ).

[Danny Meehan]

Slovenia North Korea would make for an intriguing final

[kertejud2]

Originally posted by TeamBestBud

Too mean.

[Gainsbarre]

^ ya...wow...and from Thierry Henry as well. I'd expect someone like him to be above cheating -- I guess not.

[HondaKid]

The usual suspects will win the cup, best case is for an underdog to get in the quarter finals. With a little luck it will be an African team, exciting footie when they put their mind to the game.


Final: Arg v Brazil.

I know I will be placing a few bets online with a bookie, the underdog bets are the real earners.

[ronaldo]

Originally posted by Gainsbarre
^ ya...wow...and from Thierry Henry as well. I'd expect someone like him to be above cheating -- I guess not.

http://tsn.ca/soccer/story/?id=298877

"I will be honest, it was a handball. But I'm not the ref," Henry said. "I played it. The ref allowed it. That's a question you should ask him."

[adidas]

That handball really had nothin to do with Henry. It was a refs mistake, something he clearly couldnt have seen from the position he was standing. It sucks as it seemed like a pretty evened out match between both teams.


Cant wait to watch the games during the WC.

[Aleks]

Impressive to see 2 teams from former Yugoslavia make it to the WC with the 3rd team just missing out in the payoff to Portugal.