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Atkingani

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Topic: World Cup 2006 - The Groups
Posted: December 09 2005 at 17:45

And now, my friends?

Well, I think the groups are better balanced than in 2002.

My previews:

A: Germany - Poland; B: England - Paraguay; C: Argentina - Holland; D: Mexico - Portugal; E: Italy - USA; F: Brazil - Japan; G: France - South Korea; H: Spain - Ukraine

See GROUPS below.

WORLD CUP GROUPS

GRUPO A: Germany, Ecuador, Poland, Costa Rica

GRUPO B: England, Paraguay, Sweden, Trinidad e Tobago

GRUPO C: Argentina, Ivory Coast, Holland, Serbia & Montenegro

GRUPO D: Mexico, Angola, Portugal, Iran

GRUPO E: Italy, Ghana, Czech Republic, USA

GRUPO F: Brazil, Australia, Croatia, Japan

GRUPO G: France, Togo, Switzerland, South Korea

GRUPO H: Spain, Tunisia, Ukraine, Saudi Arabia

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Posted: December 09 2005 at 18:22

Who Cares?

I hope someone is around to collect their oscar for best acting to gain a penalty, best cynical foul, most overpaid for poorest performance, best hairdo and team that has the most changes of strip to gain best sales of replica award. Have I missed anything out?

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Posted: December 09 2005 at 19:29

My qualifiers from the groups would be :-

A: Germany - Poland;
B: England - Sweden;
C: Argentina - Holland;
D: Mexico - Portugal;
E: Italy - Czech Rep;
F: Brazil - Croatia;
G: France - Switzerland;
H: Spain - Ukraine

Finalists wil be two of the following Argentina, Brazil, Germany or Italy (hopefully England

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Posted: December 09 2005 at 19:52

CLICK HERE FOR YOUR FREE PDF WORLD CUP WALLCHART

Courtesy of the good old BBC!

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Posted: December 09 2005 at 20:37

Tony R wrote:

CLICK HERE FOR YOUR FREE PDF WORLD CUP WALLCHART

Courtesy of the good old BBC!

Thanks Tony R

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Posted: December 10 2005 at 18:06

Group E is the most interesting in terms of not really knowing who will come behind Italy and take the second spot... Czech Republic, Ghana or USA... could be interesting.

I want Sweden to do well, because they have brought so much excellent music over the past 20 years or so.

England won't win it, sorry!

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Posted: December 10 2005 at 18:20

Ivory Coast would be the black horse of the World Cup

Group C Holland and Ivory Coast for me

Group D of Course Mexico and Portugal

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Posted: December 10 2005 at 18:59

Group A: Germany - Polland...Germany at any cost, Polland just logic
Group B: England - Paraguay...England a great team, Paraguay hard to beat, if they nail a goal, you're lost.
Group C: Argentina - Holland..Argentina has to pass that's politics, Holland is my candidate
Group D: Mexico - Portugal....Portugal is the best of the group, maybe Angola will surprise.
Group E: Czech Rep - USA...Italy can't always win only with a strong defence.
Group F: Brazil - Japan.....Watch out with Japan!!!
Group G: France - South Korea...Idem South Korea
Group H: Tunisia - Ukraine...Spain always dissapoints everybody.

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Posted: December 10 2005 at 19:31

ivan_2068 wrote:

Group A: Germany - Polland...Germany at any cost, Polland just logic
Group B: England - Paraguay...England a great team, Paraguay hard to beat, if they nail a goal, you're lost.
Group C: Argentina - Holland..Argentina has to pass that's politics, Holland is my candidate
Group D: Mexico - Portugal....Portugal is the best of the group, maybe Angola will surprise.
Group E: Czech Rep - USA...Italy can't always win only with a strong defence.
Group F: Brazil - Japan.....Watch out with Japan!!!
Group G: France - South Korea...Idem South Korea
Group H: Tunisia - Ukraine...Spain always dissapoints everybody.

Iván

Ivan, Angola will not surprise , Mexico is maybe the weakest Head Group but , carefull with them, i know, im mexican and of course i love my team, but to be honest for me Mexico is even better than Portugal, you will see it

About Italy, Vieri, Gilardino, Luca Toni, Del Piero, Iaquinta, all of them are excellent forwards ,for me Italy has strong deffence and strong attack

Spain always dissapoints everybody , its true

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Posted: December 10 2005 at 23:28

memowakeman wrote:

Ivan, Angola will not surprise , Mexico is maybe the weakest Head Group but , carefull with them, i know, im mexican and of course i love my team, but to be honest for me Mexico is even better than Portugal, you will see it

About Italy, Vieri, Gilardino, Luca Toni, Del Piero, Iaquinta, all of them are excellent forwards ,for me Italy has strong deffence and strong attack

Spain always dissapoints everybody , its true

I saw a game by Angola and believe me they are not a piece of cake, they are tall strong, fast and with good knowledge of systems.

Italy always has great forwards, just remember Toto Schilacci, Paolo Rossi or Baggio but their system is mean, they use the cattenaccio (however it's written) one of the most horrible systems for Football one goal and then they forget of the original 4-5-1 (with three or four defensive midfielders and only one real forward what is already mean for a team as Italy) and replace it for a 1 - 10 (All in the defence usibng the tactic of the bat, all hanguing from the post).

Spain is not new, always the same, the problem is that their football is overrated because they use 5 or 6 foreigners for team, but look at Real Madrid, it's just a waste of money.

Iván