The Official 2010 Fifa World Cup Thread (4 Viewers)

[UltimateSupremo]

Now that many teams have released their provisional squads for the WC, there have been some surprise exclusions...eg.
argentina: cambiasso, zanetti, lisandro, lucho, g. milito, gago (to an extent)
brazil: pato, ronaldinho, adriano, diego
france: nasri, benzema, vieira (to an extent)
italy: totti, del piero, toni, grosso
holland: van nistelrooy (to an extent)
australia: spiranovic (..cos i'm a big fan of him)
portugal: deco?

 

[ibbi00]

I have my eyes on Spain, France and England for this year.

 

[emiliieee]

France & England.

 

[CheesePlease]

Spain have best squad by an absolute mile. Torres and Villa to score 10+ between them.

 

[q3thefish]

June 11th.

C'mooooooooooooon Australia to pull an upset win

2-1!

2-1!!

 

[zxreth]

wooooooooooo cant wait! sooo hyped for it!!! GO BRAZIL!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[lyounamu]

south korea better do better this time =D

 

[UltimateSupremo]

ballack out of wc

 

[CheesePlease]

Yeah, Germany are getting plagued with injuries, they've already lost Adler their first keeper and arguably first team midfielder Simon Rolfes. And on top of that Klose and Podolski look like shit. The Aussie's group could really even itself out.

 

[CheesePlease]

south korea better do better this time =D

The sad truth is both South Korea and Australia are nothing without Hiddink.

 

[LordPc]

The sad truth is both South Korea and Australia are nothing without Hiddink.

you say this as if its not completely obvious

ballack out of wc

tragic, in so many ways

 

[kyokaku92]

Woot!! Go the socceroos...

 

[Garygaz]

I have my eyes on Spain, France and England for this year.

france struggled to make it into the wc, i doubt they'll make it through the 16.

 

[CheesePlease]

You can add Fabio Grosso to the list of unexpected exclusions. Lippi cut him from the Italy side today.

 

[shaon0]

france struggled to make it into the wc, i doubt they'll make it through the 16.

Yeah, but they kinda struggled in qualifying for 06 and were about to be knocked out in group stages in 06. So, i wouldn't count them out, however, they don't have a real talismanic figure like they did in 06 ie. Zidane. So, it'd be tough for them this yr.
Anyways, i'm going for France and Australia during the WC

 

[CheesePlease]

Well France only made it in with a blatant handball, it should be Ireland's place. And apart from a few ageing, past-their-prime strikers their team really is dull.

 

[acevipa]

Yeah, but they kinda struggled in qualifying for 06 and were about to be knocked out in group stages in 06. So, i wouldn't count them out, however, they don't have a real talismanic figure like they did in 06 ie. Zidane. So, it'd be tough for them this yr.
Anyways, i'm going for France and Australia during the WC

France and Italy tend to be slow starters in the WC. They usually pick up momentum as it progresses.

 

[UltimateSupremo]

BBC Sport - Football - Penalty 'feints' banned ahead of World Cup

 

[emiliieee]

Well France only made it in with a blatant handball, it should be Ireland's place. And apart from a few ageing, past-their-prime strikers their team really is dull.

please stop. yeah it was unfair. but it was ages ago. and fifa didnt do anything so shush

 

[CheesePlease]

please stop. yeah it was unfair. but it was ages ago. and fifa didnt do anything so shush

FIFA couldn't really do anything and I'm glad they didn't, the ref's decision should be final despite how horrendously wrong it was. But it is a good example of just how close France got to not making it.