Posted on 06/18/2006 5:46:50 AM PDT by soccer_maniac
Sunday games in the 2006 FIFA World Cup will kick off at 9 a.m. ET (ABC) in Nuremburg with a meeting between the only two winless teams in Group F, Japan and Croatia. They will face each other knowing that a defeat will put an end to their World Cup adventures.
In their opening match against Australia, the Japanese could not maintain a 1-0 lead and they were scored on three times in the last 15 minutes. Croatia's debut was not any better, as Brazil's Kaka scored to give the South Americans a 1-0 win over the Europeans.
In Sunday's other Group F match in Munich (11:30 a.m. ET, ABC), Brazil will continue the defense of its title in facing Australia, which enters the game with high hopes after earning its first ever victory by defeating Japan 3-1. In that game, Tim Cahill became a 'Socceroo' hero when he scored two goals after coming off the bench.
Leipzig will be the stage of Sunday's only game in Group G, pitting 1998 champions France against the Republic of Korea (2:30 p.m., ABC), with the pressure of improving on their first game in which they could only muster a scoreless tie against Switzerland.
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Are the babes even more out of control than usual or what?
Australia played very well despite the expected loss to Brazil. They played a better "English Style" game than the English team. Expect Brazil "to play to win" much more than "to play for show". You can still see some good chunk of the Brazilian beautiful game but not as used to be. The ultimate goal is to win. In fact this has been their style since 1994.
I think we need a jihad against those ESPN analysts. What a boring bunch and they NEVER shut up.
Today, during the Australia - Brazil game they made no reference to the significance of goal difference, just kept repeating the same old cliches about Brazil.
5 minutes till the next French humiliation.
This is your last reminder!
Sound the alarm. It is OMGWTF "we'd better send another battalion" fuse your TV to the floor HOT.
Playing Le Marseilleise, whenever I hear that all I can think of the Monty Python sketch with a man with a tape recorder up his nose.
Brazil reached the world cup finals in the last three times and won 2 them including the last one in 2002. I think that not living in their glory at all.
The Aussies had the chances, just didn't convert, but they held their own. All they need is a tie against Croatia and they are through to the knockout round.
Now you want to talk about a team living in their past glories or one single glory to be exact, we talk England. They did nothing since 1966.
"Brazil reached the world cup finals in the last three times and won 2 them including the last one in 2002. I think that not living in their glory at all."
That doesn't invalidate my point at all. In fact it supports it. My point was that there are players in the team now on the strength of what they achieved in those past tournaments, rather than their current form. Would you argue that Ronaldo deserves to be in the team rather than Robinho on current form?
See 132.
My point was about individual players in the team, not the team itself.
AEG, the Los Angeles Galaxy and the 2006 Korean World Cup Cheering Committee are proud to announce that once again based on the tremendous demand, all 20,000 tickets have been distributed to fans wanting to attend Sunday's viewing party at STAPLES Center at noon when Korea will take on France in their second game of the 2006 FIFA World Cup tournament, live from Germany.
1-0 France :(
Wow, it was Korea instead of France that surrendered the first goal. Who would have thought?
I was reflecting during the anthems that we saved both these countries' bacon...
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