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the_pied_piper:
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On a different topic today is the day of the FIFA World Cup Draw for South Africa 2010. Starts at around 5:30pm GMT and likely there is coverage of it on a TV channel near you.
List of countries who have qualified:
Pot Four: France, Portugal, Slovenia, Switzerland, Greece, Serbia, Denmark, Slovakia.
Pot Three: Ivory Coast, Ghana, Cameroon, Nigeria, Algeria, Paraguay, Chile, Uruguay.
Pot Two: Japan, South Korea, North Korea, Australia, New Zealand, United States, Mexico, Honduras.
Pot One: South Africa, Brazil, Spain, Netherlands, Italy, Germany, Argentina, England.
For British viewers (or anybody who can get BBC) there is live video a text coverage on the BBC Sport website here.
KickThatBathProf:
Yeah I am pretty pleased at how the U.S. drew. I mean England will be a tough match, but Algeria and Slovenia are really nothing to worry about so our chances of advancing are pretty dang good.
Man Group G is pretty nasty though huh (Also Group D)
Rudi Voller:
Ivory Coast have now been drawn in the hardest group two world cups in a row after getting Argentina and Netherlands last time around. Some real rough luck right there.
I think Italy will now be a reasonable bet to win the whole tournament. They are in an easy group, and then face the runner up in group H which is just as poor. That get's them to the quarter finals pretty easily, and Italy are well-known for being slow starters but very good once they get going. So them or Spain for me I reckon.
Considering this tournament is stil 7 months away I am far too excited.
the_pied_piper:
I think the only team that is going to win it (bar lots of injuries) is Spain. They just look far too good for anyone else.
Don't discount Germany to make a fight of it though. It seems that every team that suffers an adversity seems to make a good run of it, e.g. Italy almost not being allowed to play last time (in my opinion they shouldn't have played) and with the tragic passing of Robert Enke they will be fighting even harder to progress as far as possible.
Rudi Voller:
I think that the Netherlands will play some astonishing football until they reach the quarter finals and implode, as they are prone to doing. I hope the Spaniards win it as it means that there are more games to watch them play well.
I haven't seen Brazil play since the last world cup I don't think, so I can't really comment. Always up there with the favourites though.
Germany have a very tough group, facing both Ghana and Serbia. They could quite conceivably finish second and end up facing England in the next round. That would be a fantastic match, but a difficult one to win.
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