Given the price of a cheeseburger in Tokyo, I could see why the Brasilians want to the Japanese to show up all the same. BRING YEN - LOL!
Posted on 05/29/2014 1:31:24 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
Brazil has nearly an even shot at winning the upcoming World Cup, while Japan has none whatsoever. Those are the odds calculated by the investment banking house Goldman SachsGS -0.02% in its World Cup and Economics 2014 report, which gives host country Brazil a 48.5% shot of winning the much-watched international soccer tournament.
Japan’s chance, on the other hand, is 0.0%
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Scholes, who won 66 England caps between 1997 and 2004, urged Roy Hodgson to have five Liverpool players in his starting XI and go for it, avoiding 'dull 0-0 draws'.
England World Cup squad profile: Joe Hart
Hart had a horrific start to the season, with his all-too-frequent gaffes dominating the backpages and causing grimaces amongst England fans as the nation’s No.1 began to unravel. Tame shots were palmed into his own net and routine catches were fumbled, before a comical mix-up with Matija Nastasic saw City lose late on to Chelsea at Stamford Bridge at the height of Hart's ineptitude.
Manuel Pellegrini was forced into action, and decided to drop Hart for deputy keeper Costel Pantilimon. “Joe needs a rest and it will be useful for him,” said the Chilean at the time. The 27-year-old spent the next seven league matches on the bench, but a run that saw Pantilimon concede six times in three matches presented Hart with a chance to return to the first team.
Slowly and surely, he has restored his reputation.
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Chile has a strong squad, but in the first round it faces defending champion Spain and 2010 finalist Netherlands, as well as Australia. Just advancing out of Group B will be seen as a major success.
But for the miners who were trapped deep underground for 69 days in 2010: "Nothing is impossible for a Chilean." That's the title of their stirring television ad released Wednesday.
▶ Comercial Mineros - Apoyo Selección camino al Mundial 2014 - YouTube
The suit calls for the suspension of television and Internet spots that compare spending on the 12 World Cup stadiums to the amount Brazil invests in health, education and transportation. The government has also issued leaflets with the same information and other examples of how the country will benefit from staging soccer’s showpiece. “Besides not matching reality, the contents of the advertisement reaches the collective unconscious with the subliminal message that the federal government has fulfilled all its promises,”
prosecutor Ailton Benedito said in comments published on the federal attorneys’ office website. The government’s press office wasn’t able to comment immediately.
Head coach Joachim Loew took his squad to a luxury, five-star hotel in south Tirol’s St. Leonhard for 10 days to prepare his stars for their World Cup Group G campaign, which starts on June 16 against Portugal in Salvador.
Yet a series of unfortunate incidents have left some squad members seeking the services of the team’s sports psychologist Hans-Dieter Hermann.
Defender Kevin Grosskreutz caused a scandal just before the camp started by urinating in the foyer of a Berlin hotel after the German Cup final, the same match where captain Philipp Lahm and goalkeeper Manuel Neuer picked up worrying injuries.
"We know warm-up matches were thrown in the last World Cup, so that is also useful information to help us counter things."
Why doesn’t China or India ever do anything in the World Cup? Both have gigantic populations and I assume many millions of soccer players. And unlike American football or basketball, you don’t have to be huge to excel in soccer. So why are there no Chinese or Indian superstars or great teams?
Given the price of a cheeseburger in Tokyo, I could see why the Brasilians want to the Japanese to show up all the same. BRING YEN - LOL!
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