Posted on 06/27/2006 7:06:16 AM PDT by soccer_maniac
Defending champs Brazil encounter surprise Group E second place finishers Ghana (10:55 a.m. ET ESPN). Then, at 2:55 p.m. (ESPN), European powehouses Spain and France meet.
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Heh!
Cartan is right... i got that wrong.
I just had a look at the recent history - when germany was shot out of the last finals by brazil. So I understood, to give us the edge was to give us hell, a good spanking etc etc... btw 'sich die Kante geben' - to give yourself the edge is an expression for excessive drinking over here.
But the VERY recent history - that seems to be the subject in your post - certainly supports the Klinsi Teams win.
Franz Beckenbauer was asked in interview if he consdered it worthwhile to feel wooried about friday. He said - well yes - if you supported the argentinan team there'd be a reason.
My spelling used to be even worse ...
I pick the blue used in their home soccer uniforms. Which one would I be?
Yes, Cartan was right. The logic behind what I said is that Germany are hosts and in playing in Europe. Past history makes that a strong indicator that Germany will win the World Cup.
Of course I am hoping that the past history form guide suddenly turns upside down and England avoid penalties and beat Germany in the final :o)
I’m looking forward to the Germany Argentina game. It should be great viewing.
Berlin, June 30: Germany vs Argentina: Germany wins
Hamburg, June 30: Italy vs Ukraine: Italy wins
Gelsenkirchen, July 1: Portugal vs England: England wins
Frankfurt, July 1: Brazil vs France: Brazil wins
Semifinals Germany vs England in Dortmund July 4th: Germany wins
Semifinals Italy vs Brazil in Munich July 5th: Brazil wins
Third Place Game Italy vs England in Stuttgart July 8: England wins
World Cup Championship Game Germany vs Brazil in Berlin, July 9th: Germany wins
Based on team rankings in the tournament to date, I'm confident my predictions will hold up. Brazil is the only team I think can beat Germany but Germany will be playing to the home crowd in Berlin so I give them an advantage.
If you're right about the quarterfinals, the semifinals will be Germany-Italy and England-Brazil...
Quarter finals:
Argentina wins
Italy wins
Portugal wins
Brazil wins
Semi Finals
Argentina beats Italy
Brazil beats Portugal
4th -- Italy
3rd -- Portugal
Final too close to call. Argentina possibly looking the better side though, but beating Brazil in a final is always tough.
At least we both agree that Italy will come fourth!
I love this speculation. How about the reality. God takes over the tournament.
Italy falls to Ukraine with Shevchenko setting up one and scoring another.
Argentina crushes Germany 2-0. Portugal advances in OT and Brazil exacts revenge in a chippy contest with France.
Argentina takes better form and holds the trophy.
Or Ukraine continues the cinderella dance. Yes, because like others, because I say so. I like the thoughts behind the predictions, because they make even less sense then most of the predictions.
It's my insanity and I'm sticking to it. Yesterday was a great day.
I hope it keeps what brasil and portugal promised.
Nothing more fun than making a prediction based on nothing more than a hunch.
I also predict that Rooney will get sent off in the match versus Portugal and will become a bogeyman for the next two years in England.
Failing that Beckham or Ronney or Joe Cole will get injured so that the English yet again have something to blame for their failure to advance.
(Despite the criticism I am supporting England. But most of all I'd like to see a name that isn't Brazil, Argentina or Germany on the Cup for a change. Though, in the interests of good soccer, it is one of those three teams that deserves to be)
See what you think about the comments in this article (regarding Bruce Arena and future coaching choices for the US).
http://www.dailynews.com/sports/ci_3983734
I've picked up on comments about the MLS response to Arena's recent remarks about the MLS, but cannot find a link to actual news. Can you provide one?
Surely The Sun would never stoop so low! But the Brits will have their revenge when the Germans find out that they won't have any beer left in the finals:BECKS GETTING SICK OF ATTACKS
GERMAN tabloid Bild yesterday launched another attack on David Beckham.
The paper, which recently likened his sister to a pig, headlined shots of him vomiting in the win against Ecuador “David Brechham”—roughly translated as “David Pukeham.” In a series of jibes at the skipper and the England team, it asked: “Had he been drinking German beer? Can a Metrosexual male be pregnant? Did he find his wife's credit card bill? Or did the game itself make him sick?”
Or maybe he has just had a bellyfull of German journalists' humour...
Devious! Just devious!BEER WE GO
Germans fear we're going to drink them dry
By Jeremy ArmstrongENGLAND's massive army of World Cup fans is drinking Germany dry, it emerged yesterday.
Breweries warned beer could run out before the final because of huge demand from our supporters.
In Nuremberg, organisers revealed 70,000 England fans who flooded the city drank 1.2 MILLION pints of beer—an average of 17 pints each.
Astonished bar keeper Herrmann Murr said: “Never have I seen so many drink so much in such little time.”
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Bah.
England is going to beat Brazil, and then pummel the Germans.
It's fun to make predictions.
If they pan out, you can claim to a clarvoyant expert. If something goes awry, well, blame the refs :-)
Cheers.
Talentwise Argentina is a much better team than Germany, but I believe the game will be very close.
I'll say Argentina 3 Germany 2. (Just like in 1986)
"I pick the blue used in [the Argentine] home soccer uniforms. Which one would I be?"
And the answer is: Argentine soccer fans wear light blue regalia of their team, so that makes you one of the Unitarios... and see what that makes you below ;)_
Some excerpts from that WSJ article:
Shade of Difference: Getting Blue Right In Argentina's Flag Color Tone Is a Political Issue, On and Off Soccer Fields; Federalists' Dark View By MATT MOFFETT June 26, 2006
BUENOS AIRES -- ... the national flag has been flying everywhere you ... it is an eye-catching standard: one white horizontal stripe -- with a golden sun at the center -- sandwiched between two sky blue horizontal stripes. Or are those two lavender stripes? Or are they azure or cerulean blue?"
It may sound like a picayune point, but the dispute over the tone of blue in the Argentine banner has triggered a kick fight in the usually genteel world of vexillology, as the study of flags is known.... Dark blue is identified with the losing side, the Federalists, and their leader, the infamous strongman Gen. Juan Manuel de Rosas, who sought greater autonomy for provinces and close ties to the Roman Catholic Church. Lighter blue is identified with the liberal opponents of Gen. Rosas, especially the Unitarios, who wanted a more centralized government.
Mr. Pepe complains that Argentine soccer fans... brandish flags with a blue so bleached out that "they turn out looking like white cloths."
Advocates of light blue chastise the modern day partisans of Gen. Rosas and the Federalists for playing games with the national standard. ... Argentina's 1944 law on national symbols leaves room for ambiguity by describing the flag's coloring as celeste, or sky blue. "Is it the sky on a sunny day or during a rainstorm?" Mr. Navas asks. "Is it the sky in summer or winter?..."
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Its pretty odd then that the soccer team wears both the light blue and the dark blue.
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