2006 World Cup Draw Thread
 

The FIFA World Cup Draw starts in 25 minutes. They have an English language tracker here:
http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com/06/en/w/fd/index.html

The U.S. is almost sure to be in a "group of death."

thanks, i was gonna check it out

actually draw doesn't happen until about an hour from now.. 21:20 CET.. looking forward to it :)

Yeah that's when it comes on ESPN2 here. Call me crazy but I am little nervous. :xmas-smil

It starts in exactly 8 minutes.. :winkwink:

ENGLAND!!!!!ENGLAND!!!!!ENGLAND!!!!!ENGLAND!!!!!
:thumbsup :thumbsup :thumbsup :thumbsup

Scotland, Scotland, Scotland!!! Oh Wait, thats right were shit and never make it

Englands group will be Holland, Australia and the USA. Just because that's how it always is for us :)

PORTUGAL WILL WIN THAT EASY :)



















not really...

To be completely honest Brazil looks to be the only team that can called a "favorite." The rest of them will have to fight for every game. That's the beauty of this tournament.

i hope nigeria wins this year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*cheers for England*

Chichio, Brazil is always going to be the favorite in these type of competitions.. They always were and they always will be favorites at any football tourneys...

Argentinaaaaaaaa

Simply not true. There have been plenty of times over the years that Brazil have been anything but favourites.

How so? last decade they have been the best.. won in japan and in the states, lost to france in '98 in the final..

and what about pele's era? champs in 1958, 1962, and 1970...

won the most world cup trophies...

look at their team now i doubt anybody can stop them...

Yea, if you're not one of the 8 "seeded" teams you risk getting into a tough group.

They have a great team and I will cheer for them.. but not sure if they can beat the likes of Brazil.

Great linking.. checking it out now.. wonder which group will be the GROUP OF DEATH!! :upsidedow

For those in Canada.. the World Cup draw is live on Sportsnet

I hope Canada qualifies before I die, our whole city goes crazy at World Cup but for Italy, Brazil, England, Greece and every other damn country. Kind of amazing to see a massive celebration on the streets no matter who wins

For everyone else - live radio broadcast:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/foot...06/4466032.stm

here we go ..i'm on the five live coverage

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GROUP E
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GROUP F
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GROUP G
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GROUP H
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as it stands before the real stuff starts

England Group B

Australia vs Brazil is going to be interesting

Crap - Sweden are in the same group as England...

Gooooo Brazil! Gotta love the world cup :)

Brazil, Croatia lovely group..

um, ok.... Crazy.

Brazil definitely... :D

It'd be nice to see USA go to group G, that looks like a pretty soft group.

Italy
Ghana
USA
Czech Republic

I like it.

nope, group E. Italy, Ghana, Chech Republic. I can live with that.

Czech Republic will destory group E

Final Draw:
GROUP A
Germany
Costa Rica
Poland
Ecuador


GROUP B
England
Paraguay
Trinidad & Tobago
Sweden


GROUP C
Argentina
Ivory Coast
Serbia & Montenegro
Holland


GROUP D
Mexico
Iran
Angola
Portugal


GROUP E
Italy
Ghana
USA
Czech Republic


GROUP F
Brazil
Croatia
Australia
Japan


GROUP G
France
Switzerland
South Korea
Togo


GROUP H
Spain
Ukraine
Tunisia
Saudi Arabia

groups A, D, G, H are the easiest.. (spain, france, portugal, germany 1st respectively in their groups) IMO

groups C, F, B, E will be fun to watch..

Wow, Czech Republic is ranked 2nd in the world? I guess the US has their work cut out for them after all.

DAMN, we will get a tough time

GROUP C
Argentina
Ivory Coast
Serbia & Montenegro
Holland

the Czechs are going to destroy the Usa imo.

The Czechs are damn good. Nedved is probably one of the best players in the world. Still the U.S. can beat any team in the group but we will need some luck.

Nedved doesn't play for the national team anymore....

Whoever the US gets, they're fucked. They're crap at the world's most popular sport.

Actually he does again, he said he would play for the WC06.

Okay then he returned :-) I see you are from seattle. I must say GREAT area there :thumbsup

Well at least we're not in group C. Yikes.

Geezus Australia has got it hard...

Spain probably has the easiest group...

Thanks. I like Holland a lot too. I'll be rooting for the Dutch unless we come up against them. Good luck to you guys. :thumbsup