Soccer World Cup

[GTaudiophile]

Too bad for Greece.

 

[GoingUp]

Damn. I think the fact that the US clinched so early and then played their scrubs and lost a couple will cost us a #1 seed 🙁

 

[ngvepforever2]

...as always I will be rooting for Brazil

Regards

ng

 

[BRObedoza]

yeah no Cameroon, South Africa, Nigeria, etc. bt Ghana & Ivory Coast are pretty good teams.

 

[Gooberlx2]

Originally posted by: Xcobra
so whos rooting for who?

1) USA (though I'm a realist about that one)
2) Germany
3) Italy
4) England

I'm tired of South American teams always doing so well...I want them CRUSHED!!! 😛

 

[weirdichi]

So are we going to have to stay up half the night like last World Cup to watch these games?

 

[chcarnage]

Originally posted by: weirdichi
So are we going to have to stay up half the night like last World Cup to watch these games?

Nah, you got to leave work at 11 AM this time 😉

 

[BRObedoza]

Originally posted by: weirdichi
So are we going to have to stay up half the night like last World Cup to watch these games?

German league games are usually played at like 8am-11am PST, so it won't be like 2002.

 

USA! USA! USA! Hopefully, the Europeans will show us a little bit more respect after our last world cup showing...some upsets there and hard fought games which surprised Europe!

After that...Germany!

 

[CalvinHobbs]

and it's called football......

 

[chuckywang]

How does this World Cup draw going on right now work?
And what does "S" mean next to Serbia/Montenegro?

EDIT: never mind, it's on espn2

 

[blakeatwork]

Originally posted by: chcarnage
I browsed a few News site but since the qualifications don't make many headlines in the US, I thought I might as well post the list. Switzerland got its ticket this evening (local time) after a 2:0 win/4:2 loss in the barrage against Turkey 🙂

Europe
Germany (host)
England
France
Italy
Netherlands
Poland
Portugal
Sweden
Serbia-Montenegro
Ukraine
Switzerland
Spain
Czechia
Croatia

Asia
Iran
Japan
Saudi Arabia
South Korea

South America
Argentinia
Brasil
Ecuador
Paraguay

North/Middle America/CONCACAF
Costa Rica
Mexiko
USA (You made it, too!)
Trinidad/Tobago (smallest participant, population: 1 million)

Oceania
Australien (Well... duh! 😉)

Africa (four of them were absent at the last Cup)
Angola
Ivory Coast
Ghana
Togo
Tunesia


Just a little FYI 🙂

We're gonna send the IRA over to have a chat with the Swiss team... apparently they didn't get the momo that they were supposed to not show up.. bloody bastards!

😛

 

[maddogchen]

Originally posted by: FallenHero
USA! USA! USA! Hopefully, the Europeans will show us a little bit more respect after our last world cup showing...some upsets there and hard fought games which surprised Europe!

After that...Germany!

show us respect HA! yeah right.

 

[Bushwicktrini]

Originally posted by: chcarnage
I browsed a few News site but since the qualifications don't make many headlines in the US, I thought I might as well post the list. Switzerland got its ticket this evening (local time) after a 2:0 win/4:2 loss in the barrage against Turkey 🙂

Europe
Germany (host)
England
France
Italy
Netherlands
Poland
Portugal
Sweden
Serbia-Montenegro
Ukraine
Switzerland
Spain
Czechia
Croatia

Asia
Iran
Japan
Saudi Arabia
South Korea

South America
Argentinia
Brasil
Ecuador
Paraguay

North/Middle America/CONCACAF
Costa Rica
Mexiko
USA (You made it, too!)
Trinidad/Tobago (smallest participant, population: 1 million)
Oceania
Australien (Well... duh! 😉)

Africa (four of them were absent at the last Cup)
Angola
Ivory Coast
Ghana
Togo
Tunesia


Just a little FYI 🙂

Count me as one of those 1 million😀

 

[chcarnage]

Originally posted by: chuckywang
How does this World Cup draw going on right now work?
And what does "S" mean next to Serbia/Montenegro?

Depending on their strength the teams are divised in 4 tiers. Each of the 8 groups consists of a member of each tier. Only two teams from the same continent are allowed per group, that's why Serbia-Montenegro have their "own" tier.

The groups, for the lazy (strongest team first, weakest last):

Group A
Germany
Ecuador
Poland
Costa Rica

Group B
England
Paraguay
Sweden
Trinidad and Tobago

Group C
Argentina
Ivory Coast
Netherlands
Serbia-Montenegro

Group D
Mexico
Angola
Portugal
Iran

Group E
Italy
Ghana
Czechia
USA

Group F
Brasil
Australia
Croatia
Japan

Group G
France
Togo
Switzerland
South Korea

Group H
Spain
Tunesia
Ukraine
Saudi Arabia

France again for Switzerland... The fifth time during the last three years, heh.

 

[Bucks]

Originally posted by: DP

Originally posted by: sleepmachine
Brazil have to be overwhelming favorites. Ronaldinho, Ronaldo, Robinho, Julio Baptista, Kaka, Juninho, Adriano, Diego, the list goes on and on.

Hope the US can get a couple of wins though and make it at least to the knockout stages.

QFT.

Ronaldinho FTFW

qft

 

[mAdD INDIAN]

How the hell did Nigeria not make it??? I was so looking forward to watching them play.

I remember the 94 (or was it 92?) World Cup when they were playing Italy in the semi-finals and the game went from 3-0 (Nigeria winning) to 3-3 and went into overtime. Such a close game!

Anyone know why they didn't make it this time around?