World Cup Fever?
 

With less than a week left until the WC starts, everybody's talking about it here. In the papers, on TV, in school, everywhere. I've even got a few friends who are betting that we will beat Brazil.

Then there's the competitions. Until about 3 weeks ago, there was a competition which got you tickets for the Brazil match. Another one, which ended about a month ago, gave away tickets for the China match.

Of course, the reason for this is because this is only our second time in he cup (the other one was in '54 - a little boy picked our name out of a hat :)).

How's it in your country? Is it on everybdy's mind, or is it a "who cares" situation?


Oh, and there one more thing I have to say. Argentina's star, Ariel Ortega, has been transfered to Fenerbahce (I'm a FB fan, so I just had to say this). If you're intrested, click here.

*scratches head*

world wha?


*imagines it must be something like water polo*

Well I'm Cheering For Ireland

altho Roy Keane being sent home because his explosion about the training facilities didn't help our chances.

The Others that could and might win are Argentina, France Italy and England

I'm cheering for Germany and USA.

And sorry Peppy, Germany is gonna waste Ireland (I hope) :D

Aye, just like USA is gonna beat Portugal :P

Yea, why are you saying Germany will beat Ireland?

They are a crap side

Cause I want 'em to. I have faith!

Oh ya, and if you look at FIFA's work rankings, Germany is ahead of Ireland, and Britain. USA is ahead of Ireland for that matter.

Yea, they're tough. I always thought we would beat them, but the last two friendly games against Hong Kong and South Africa lowered my expectations (we beat HK 2-0 and lost 2-0 to SA).

I sure hope we do some good things.

Ok, you think the Fifa Rankings Mean Anything?

USA Doesn't deserve to be near the top 10.

They can't beat any top class european teams, the only reason they are that high is because they beat teams like Fiji and get points.

Fifa Rankings are so useless it's not funny, because if they were true, Ireland would probably be 2nd or 3rd,

They lost once in Qualifying, and it was the last game

Wahhhh!
 

We lost to Brazil 2-1 :baby:
We scored the goal at the end of the first half, the 47th minute. But Ronaldo equalised at 52 or something. Then at the 87th min. the ref. gave a penalty to Brazil for a shirt pulling which was 2 yards outside the box. Rivaldo scored, and we lost :baby:

And one thing I have to add, the goal Cameroon scored had gone out of bounds a few passes before the ball reached goal. It should've been a throw in.

Re: World Cup Fever?
 

Ha, where I live, its definately a "who cares" situation...I dont even think Canada has ever been in the WC, welll maybe a long time ago, but I dont ever remember Canada being in it (I may be wrong)...meh...

Woo hoo 2-0 to Italy!!

:dance:

Re: Wahhhh!
 

I saw that.

That definently wasn't a penalty.

:baby:

:distress:

I guess Portugal doesn't qualify as a top European team then, huh? :eek: And that's without three starters as well. Maybe you should try to come up with a better example. :p

You even called it. :D
:usa: :usa: :usa:

I liked how South Korea won from Poland. They have a Dutch coach, Guus Hiddink. :D

ROFL!!! This one backfired now didn't it?

Wow, USA actually won a game of soccer! ;)
I shouldn't be the one to say it, since Holland isn't even in the WC! :D

well the fact is, if USA go through

they will have to Face Spain or South Africa....... i wouldn't want to faec either.

lol

and if they qualify from that, they will have to face England/Argentina/Sweden or Demark/France or Senegal

Remember what I said about Ortega in the first post? He finally signed, 2 hours ago! Now he's a Fenerbahce player!
I'm sooooo happy!

I'll try to find an English link...

Edit: I found a link. Here it is. The picture at the top says it all. But they should add some info in a few minutes.

Hehe, Japan won. I like seeing weak countries win. :)

Did ne1 c Italy vs Croatia?

2 disallowed goals for Italy (both which were bloody goals!).

Bloody pisses me off. Stupid refs. There should be a video referee so they can c the play again.

Well Italy lost 2-1. Very unfairly though. Should have DEFINITELY been 3-2

They already have the video thingy, they just don't use it much. They did with stupid Romario's play. :rolleyes:

2 disallowed goals? I thought it was only 1.
I watched about 20 minutes of the game, and I didn't see any goals.

Aaaaand, we finished 1-1 with Costa Rica, conceded a goal in the 86th min. Very unlucky number for us, 86.

Haha! France is out! :D So funny to see the former world and European champion knocked out! :p :rofl:

Oh yeah I forgot, I like France... :( Oh well, I guess I don't like them with football. :)

*Tries to follow the World Cup*

Yeah, so the United States tied with South Korea I believe. That means they have to beat their next opponent to get a place in whatever or something like that.

I'm glad France is out. I didn't like them much, and I sure like surprises!

I also think USA will beat Poland and advance to the next stage.

The USA and S. Korea are tied right now with 4 points. S. Korea has to play Portugal, a good team. The USA plays Poland, a team who has yet to win.

If the USA keeps playing like they have, they will move on to the next round and shock the world.

On a side note, Germany is doing damn good too.

Even though it happened yesterday, WE CAME IN SECOND IN THE GROUP!!! It's so great! And only our second time in the Cup!

The match ended at 11:15 in the morning, but people were still celebrating at 4 in the afternoon.

Now we play against Japan.

Well, it was ugly, but the U.S has advanced (Thanks South Korea!)
We looked pretty bad against Poland, but since Portugal went down 2 men, Korea took advantage and scored. Even 2 men down Portugal had 3 or 4 really good chances to tie the score and eliminate the U.S, but they didn't and now we take on Mexico. THat's been a good rivalry, so hopefully we'll pull it off.

Well, it's great we (United States) advanced. I believe we face Mexico next, I'm not sure how good they are though. That game is on june 17th by the way. Anyone know which channel will be covering it in the U.S.?

Well, I'm sure ESPN or ESPN 2 will carry it live at 2:25 A.M which is it's live time in the U.S I believe. Then ABC will re-broadcast it at a more reasonable time like 1 or 2 P.M o'clock later that day.

It wasn't pretty but the US got the win. Now all we gotta do is figure out how to beat Germany.

USA!!USA!!USA!!USA!!USA!!USA!!USA!!USA!!USA!!USA!!USA!!USA!!
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USA!!USA!!USA!!USA!!USA!!USA!!USA!!USA!!USA!!USA!!USA!!USA!!
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USA!!USA!!USA!!USA!!USA!!USA!!USA!!USA!!USA!!USA!!USA!!USA!!
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Well, I wanted USA to win, and I really was happy when they did. Now I just hope we beat Japan.

Go Turkey! (<----- Made it myself :))

Players that play in Dutch teams and are in the WC:
http://www.wk2002.nl/eredivisieOPwk.html

That O'Brien or something plays at Ajax. Ono from Japan plays at Feyenoord. And the coach of S-Korea is Dutch. :D We hope South Korea will win! :D

I would go for Turkey, but I have to go for Japan (seen as I know no Turks, and I work for Japs).

Italy vs Korea tonight. We better do some damage, or I'm gonna do some damage myself................in GTAIII :unsure:

WE BEAT JAPAAAAAAAAAAAAN!!!!!!! I CAN'T BELIEVE IT!!!

And they were the hosts! I didn't want to see them lose, but we beat them.

I'm sooooooo happy right now.



Now it's Senegal.

BTW, we beat Japan 1-0.

Oh well for Japan :(

But I'm not from Japan. I'm ITALIAN/AUSTRALIAN!

GO ITALY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Forzza Italia.

HAAAAA! In the 18th minute Italy made 1-0. In the 88th (!!!) minute S-Korea made 1-1!! Extension!!! Anything is still possible!!

:D

BTW I'm for Sout Korea. :D Go Hiddink!!! :D

Let's just hope it doesn't come to penalties! :(