"You guys play mickey-mouse teams (Mexico excluded) and therefore get ranked higher. You played Panama in the Gold Cup final for pete's sake!"
Micky Mouse teams? Last I looked, every team from CONCACAF seemed to be doing quite well in the tournament thus far. The lone loss occurring with Costa Rica against Germany on their home turf!
Trinidad Tobago v Sweden: 1-1
Mexico v. Iran: 3-1
Costa Rica v Germany: 2-4
Compare those results against UEFA and you have a different story. England, Portugal, Poland, Serbia, and Sweden are all playing terrible ball.
Time to wake up and smell the coffee. The distance between historically great teams and emerging teams is shrinking on the world stage. And with that I will go out on a limb and predict that the U.S. will kick the arse of Italy as it did to your current choice of residence, Canada - current red headed step-child and "Micky Mouse" member of CONCACAF.
-Roscommon
p.s. Good luck with Ghana tomorrow. ;-)
Cuba, El Salvador, Honduras, Haiti, and Jamaica. Basically, 5 San Marinos lol.
Btw, Trinidad-Sweden ended 0-0.
I'll start a Day 4 World Cup thread tomorrow morning
PREVIOUS 2006 WORLD CUP Threads:
2006 WORLD CUP -- Day 3 Thread
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1647284/posts
2006 WORLD CUP -- Day 2 Thread
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1646776/posts
2006 WORLD CUP -- Day 1 Thread -- Finally, It's Game On
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1646240/posts