Who's going to win the World Cup
 

Place your bets...

USA, not!!! LOL
 

Hey man I love my country and I really think the US has a good team, but if a had to pick it would be either Brazil or the Czechs!

thats a tough decision hmm, i would say england but the croatians got a good team too so i would say either croatia or argentina.

Now that Rooney's foot is better, ENGLAND :drinkup

.........Brazil!! :GFYBand :GFYBand

Viva la Brazil

Brazil or England...

I'm betting on Brazil

I say Brazil, almost without a doubt.

Brazil looks real good.

Brazil?
 

Whats up with Brazil and soccer? Do they manufactor GREAT soccer players? Every World Cup, every 4 years they are the team to beat! I know other countries have GREAT player and great teams but the Brazil is always the favorite!

If USA won in Germany there would be fucking riots. It would be like Hitler winning the football in Israel.

My guess is England or Brazil.

It's almost guaranteed that Brazil is going to win. They would have to shoot half of their players NOT to win. England won't even be in the final because they're known to choke in every world cup, although I love Michael Owen. I would guess Brazil and Argentina or perhaps Brazil and Germany.

Im hoping for Sweden but I guess Brazil will win

England is not even going to win their group and will face a hard competitor in the 1/8 finals. :)

I'd say either Brazil or Germany. The furthest Australia will get to is Group 2, they've got some tuff comp right off the bat.

-N

If I had to put my money on it... Brazil

put some money on brazil

Final will be Brasil vs Portugal LOL....

I have to pray for England.

I fear it wont be England but Im praying I am wrong. Historically, European teams do better when its staged in Europe. Also, the host nation tend to do quite well, allied to the fact that Germany somehow always seem to be there or thereabouts.

Therefore Im going for France lol.

FIFA World Rankings May 2006

Togo are the lowest of the 32 World Cup 2006 qualified teams in 61st place.

1 Brazil
2 Czech Republic
3 The Netherlands
4 Mexico
5 USA
5 Spain
7 Portugal
8 France
9 Argentina
10 England

11 Nigeria
11 Denmark
13 Italy
14 Turkey
15 Cameroon
16 Sweden
17 Egypt
18 Japan
19 Germany
20 Greece

21 Tunisia
22 Uruguay
23 Iran
23 Croatia
25 Romania
26 Costa Rica
27 Colombia
28 Senegal
29 Poland
29 Korea Republic
31 Republic of Ireland
32 Côte d'Ivoire
33 Paraguay
34 Saudi Arabia
35 Switzerland
36 Morocco
37 Russia
37 Bulgaria
39 Ecuador
40 Norway

41 Slovakia
42 Honduras
42 Australia
44 Serbia and Montenegro
45 Ukraine
46 Jamaica
47 Trinidad and Tobago
48 Ghana
49 Finland
49 Israel
51 Guinea
52 Iraq
53 South Africa
54 Bahrain
55 Zimbabwe
56 Belgium
57 Angola
57 Zambia
59 Scotland
60 Uzbekistan

61 Togo
62 Guatemala
63 Bosnia-Herzegovina
64 Chile
65 Belarus
66 Peru
66 Mali
68 China PR
69 Congo DR
70 Latvia
71 Slovenia
71 Venezuela
71 United Arab Emirates
74 Kuwait
74 Wales
76 Hungary
76 Estonia
78 Qatar
79 Austria
80 Cuba

81 Panama
82 Oman
83 Canada
84 Jordan
85 Albania
86 Libya
87 Algeria
88 Korea DPR
89 Burkina Faso
90 Syria
91 FYR Macedonia
92 Singapore
93 Lithuania
94 Rwanda
95 Kenya
96 Northern Ireland
97 Uganda
97 Sudan
99 Iceland
100 Cyprus

101 Georgia
102 Bolivia
103 Botswana
104 Moldova
104 Gabon
106 Haiti
107 Malawi
108 Thailand
109 Armenia
110 Indonesia
111 Congo
112 Azerbaijan
112 Ethiopia
114 Benin
115 Palestine
115 Hong Kong
117 India
118 New Zealand
118 Barbados
120 Turkmenistan

121 Tajikistan
122 Lebanon
123 Liechtenstein
123 Cape Verde Islands
125 Malta
126 Vietnam
127 Mozambique
127 Malaysia
129 Andorra
130 El Salvador
131 St. Lucia
132 Yemen
133 St. Kitts and Nevis
133 St. Vincent and the Grenadines
135 Kazakhstan
136 Sri Lanka
137 Maldives
137 Swaziland
139 Faroe Islands
140 Bangladesh

141 Lesotho
142 Fiji
143 Liberia
144 Solomon Islands
145 Tahiti
146 Mauritius
147 Kyrgyzstan
147 Vanuatu
149 Myanmar
150 Burundi
151 Madagascar
152 Luxembourg
153 Pakistan
154 Equatorial Guinea
155 Grenada
156 Chinese Taipei
157 Nicaragua
158 Surinam
159 Chad
160 Antigua and Barbuda

161 San Marino
162 Guyana
162 Bermuda
164 Namibia
165 Sierra Leone
166 Gambia
167 Tanzania
168 Papua New Guinea
169 Nepal
170 Netherlands Antilles
171 Eritrea
172 Laos
173 British Virgin Islands
174 Dominica
175 Dominican Republic
176 Seychelles
177 Niger
178 Mauritania
179 Mongolia
180 Belize

181 Central African Republic
182 Cayman Islands
183 Samoa
184 Cambodia
185 Somalia
186 Guinea-Bissau
187 Tonga
188 Afghanistan
188 New Caledonia
190 Bhutan
191 Philippines
192 Macau
193 Brunei Darussalam
194 Bahamas
195 Cook Islands
196 Puerto Rico
197 US Virgin Islands
198 São Tomé e Príncipe
199 Anguilla
200 Djibouti

201 Aruba
202 Montserrat
203 Guam
204 Turks and Caicos Islands
205 American Samoa

Source: www.fifa.com

next to brazil, england have the best players (especially if rooney is fit). but it's teams that win world cups, not players (with the exception of maradona). so if england play well as a team i think they will win if brazil don't.

Germany will win :2 cents:

Um.. Germany !

Brazil sounds like a good guess each year.

Haha...figures...they are ranked #1. What's new?

Hopefully Brazil.


After having to listen to Ian Wright talking shite during the England game on the BBC the other day, it's no wonder us Scots like to see England get fucked !! :321GFY

One example of the shit he speaks, and should again raise the qustion why he is allowed on the panel at these games :

Ian Wright's opinion on Steven gerrards blatant dive in the box to win a penalty....

''Its gonna happen to us so lets do it to dem'' :disgust




An English journalist's view on Ian Wright and the BBCs coverage of this weeks England game..

"If there was one positive to be taken from Wright?s wailings on Tuesday night it was that anything is possible; having spent the last two years desecrating the role of 'expert pundit', Wright achieved the seemingly impossible by further debasing the job.

Sven's wholly-justified decision to jettison Wright's adopted son from England's World Cup 23 appears to have eroded whatever modicum of reason Wright formerly possessed. Displaying more twitches than that fella with Tourette's Syndrome in the Big Brother house, the palpably bitter Wright's sole contribution was to disparage Eriksson at every opportunity.

Pundits do not necessarily have to be objective, but it would make sense if they occasionally made sense. Suggesting, with a remark that disgraced the BBC, that Hargreaves owed his place "because he knows something about Eriksson's family," must be the final straw. Eriksson's view of Wright's own family has sent him over the edge.

The lack of objectivity in the BBC's coverage was startling.

Steven Gerrard may have tripped over thin air to win England's first-half penalty but at half-time, Wright suggested that Gerrard was within his rights to dive to win a penalty as "that's what they'll do to us at the World Cup." Err, that's alright then.

Hargreaves was subjected to a hatchet job that surely owed much to the fact that he plies his trade overseas. The Bayern Munich midfielder may not have excelled but he was far from being as poor as the BBC pundits suggested. Given editorial control, the contribution of any player can be devalued by a few suggestive replays. Having refused to acknowledge last week's match, Carrick is clearly the BBC's golden boy despite making twice as many mistakes in the opening half-hour against Belarus as Hargreaves committed on Wednesday.

How ironic that having been promoted by the BBC in a nod to race relations, Wright is apparently unable to see beyond Hargreaves as a Canuck or some sort of German infiltrator.

If it weren't for the blessed mute button, the next six weeks would suddenly take the form of a terrible ordeal".


(well said that man)

Germany just because they are playing at home

brazil.... again

Brasil or Germany

I hope Holland but i think Brasil

England:drinkup England:drinkup England:drinkup

I was surprised to see the Czech Republic, Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden so highly ranked. They all have really small populations and cold weather climates.

If England does win I saw those of us in England meet up at the victory parade.

My guess Brazil...


Mr. Romance

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Ronaldhino... THE BEST FOOTBALL PLAYER!!

Italy will win:thumbsup

I think brasil. I hope The Netherlands

Canada is going to win it easily this year

Hope not Italy will...
Go Czech Republic!! :)

England... I hope!

The Fifa rankings are bollocks because some of the teams (USA, Mexico, etc) are playing consistently low level teams whilst a team like Argentina, who consistently play Brasil, suffer. Also most European teams suffer as the qualifying groups for the WC and EC are a much higher standard than say an Asian, CONCAF or African region group.

Anyway, most of the Europeans are in with a shout. Brasil and Argentina will be there or there abouts. Think Ivory Coast and Australia may have a couple of good results in them.

Glad I didn't have to listen to Ian Wright as I'm an Arsenal fan and I like to remember him for the good things he did!

Anyway, should be a corker with no easy groups. Let's hope the teams aren't too cagey and go out to win as opposed to not to lose.

C'mon England!

Germany...

Theres no puck in soccer....

Canada wasn't even on that huge Fifa list!?!?!? did we not even try or are we just the worst futbol/soccer playing country in the world!!!!!??

WTF?!

my bad... we're number 83. pretty lousy