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The 2010 Fifa World Cup will be underway 2moro with the hosts South Africa taking on Mexico, followed by Uruguay entertaining France. There is no clear favorite in the tournament, but a number of teams have potential to win it all or place well. first of all, I think Brazil will beat Spain in the Final. Argentina and Germany will play in the 3rd place game with Germany taking it. There are key injuries to a lot of contenders. Captains of Germany and England Michael Ballack and Rio Ferdinand are ruled out for the World Cup. Ivory Coast star Didier Drogba broke his arm a week ago in a friendly, but he is not ruled out yet.  Mexico Striker Guillermo Franco is expected to start tomorrow.

My Predictions- Mexico 2 0 South Africa
                      France 2 1 Urugray


Let me know what you think about the Cup. 

in your order:
2-1
2-0

you forgot Hholland :P they're the ones to look for. spain is proably gonna lose it cause of some injury, brazil and argentina are then the favourites and then holland and THEN germany :P

Is there some football competition happening then? :2:

*Kicks Fester in the nut*

*Kicks Fester in the nuts again*

*Gives Fester a cup*

Now if you want to talk about

England v Australia
Ireland v New Zealand
France v South Africa
Argentina v Scotland

All matches happening tomorrow I would be interested ;-)

This will be true "footballing" tradition then?

Its called Soccer*, but I'll let you slide, this time!

Mexico and South Africa was a 1-1 draw. The Mexicans outplayed the South Africans most of the match, but in the 55th minute Tshbalala finished a beauty of a goal. In the 79th, poor defending from south africa allowed Rafa Marquez to equalize. Just at the end of the game lone striker Mphela hit the post on a breakaway that would have won the match.

France and Urugray went into a goalless draw with Urugray putting on a magical display of defending to earn the draw. Thierry Henry called for a handball, ironically, late in the game but the ref did not award a penalty. Good game, plenty of half chances.

Group A Standings                                              My Picks
1 South Africa 1pt                                          South Korea 1 1 Greece
2 Mexico 1pt                                                  Argentina 2 0 Nigeria
3 France 1pt                                                  England 3 1 USA
4 Urugray 1pt

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_football#Etymology

Wikipedia is not an official source on anything. It is simply users such as you or myself who offer their *sometimes* educated opinions on topics. Therefore Wikipedia, at this time, is inadmissible as evidence

http://web.archive.org/web/20071230053134/http://germany2006.fussballportal.de/history.php
http://www.fifa.com/
http://soccer.suite101.com/article.cfm/one_mans_soccer_is_another_mans_football

Good way to really wind up the brits calling it that!!!  The correct term is Association Football, shortened to football. Invented by the English many many years ago before the old colony accross the water decided to  'reinvent Rugby with padding' and call it American Football :P

As far as this weekends matches, my predictions are.....

S Korea 1 Greece 1
Argentina 2 Nigeria 1
England 1 USA 0
Algeria 2 Slovenia 1
Serbia 1 Ghana 3
Germany 2 Australia 0

South Korea defeated Greece 2-0 in which Korea controled the game and got a goal from Park Ji Sung from Manchester United to put the game away.

Argentina beat Nigeria 1-0 in a game that just went final. Both teams had plenty of chances but could not take them.

Group B Standings
1 South Korea 3pts
2 Argentina 3pts
3 Nigeria 0pts
4 Greece 0pts

Your right that Wikipedia post can be very biased or outright wrong however in this case it is correct.

Lets just clear everything up...Brazil wins the cup.

spain's more likely to win lol halftime of the ENG-USA match and its 1-1

You could have just wrote out the acronym for FIFA, lol

 :P

USA!

Algeria 0 1 Slovenia
Ghana 1 0 Serbia

Controversial calls in each game- An Algeria sub was sent off after controlling a ball with his hand in Slovenia's box. He had already picked up a yellow before his handball. A few minutes later captain Robert Koren scored to give slovenia the win.

Asamoah Gyan scored his 20th goal for Ghana after a handball by a Serbia sub in his own box led to a penalty and a yellow card. Lukovic of Serbia was sent off after recieving 2 yellows.

Group C Standings                                    My Picks
1 Slovenia 3pts                                    Germany 2 0 Australia
2 USA 1pt                                           Holland 3 1 Denmark
3 England 1pt                                      Japan 1 1 Cameroon
4 Algeria 0pts                                      Italy 1 0 Paraguay

Germany 4 0 Australia

A dominating performance from the Germans. Goals from Klose, Podolski, Cacau, and Muller sealed the best performance of the tournament so far.

Holland 2 0 Denmark An own goal from Agger and a goal from Kuyt capped a good performance from the dutch

Japan 1 0 Cameroon Japan produced the upset of the tournament so far with a 39th minute goal.

Italy 1 1 Paraguay The defending champs were given quite a scare after going down 1-0 right before halftime. However, just past 60 minutes, a goalkeeping error caused Daniele de Rossi to equalize.

My picks
New Zealand 0 2 Slovakia
Ivory Coast 1 3 Portugal
Brazil 3 0 North Korea

Spain loses to the swiss, Greece comes back against Nigeria, and Mexico dominates France

Here are the first 4 group standings. GD is Goal Difference
Group A
1  Urugray 4pts +3
2 Mexico 4pts +2
3 France 1 pt GD -2
4 South Africa 1pt GD -3

Group B
1 Argentina 6pts +4
2 South Korea 3pts -1
3 Greece 3pts -1
4 Nigeria 0pts -2

Group C
1 Slovenia 4pts +1
2 USA 2pts 0
3 England 2pts 0
4 Algeria 1pt -1

Group D
1 Ghana 4pts +1
2 Germany 3pts +3
3 Serbia 3pts 0
4 Austrailia 1pt -4

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Hey all have not been on in a while but the semifinals are set with Holland taking on the last South American team Urugray and the Spanish taking on the Germans who come off back to back 4 goal performances.