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Unofficial Pre FIFA World Cup 2010 Thread

Poll: Who is you favorite team for winning the World Cup? (52 member(s) have cast votes)

Who is you favorite team for winning the World Cup?

  1. Brazil (7 votes [13.46%])

    Percentage of vote: 13.46%

  2. France (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  3. Argentina (11 votes [21.15%])

    Percentage of vote: 21.15%

  4. Nigeria (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  5. Italy (2 votes [3.85%])

    Percentage of vote: 3.85%

  6. USA (7 votes [13.46%])

    Percentage of vote: 13.46%

  7. Spain (12 votes [23.08%])

    Percentage of vote: 23.08%

  8. Netherlands (7 votes [13.46%])

    Percentage of vote: 13.46%

  9. Germany (3 votes [5.77%])

    Percentage of vote: 5.77%

  10. Portugal (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  11. Chile (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  12. England (2 votes [3.85%])

    Percentage of vote: 3.85%

  13. Portugal (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  14. Cameroon (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  15. Mexico (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  16. Ghana (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  17. Serbia (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  18. Uruguay (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  19. Cote d'Ivoire (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  20. Other (1 votes [1.92%])

    Percentage of vote: 1.92%

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#1 User is offline   Aberlour10 

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  Posted 2010-May-17, 13:25

Let's talk about, its not so far away from now uffffffff ;)
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Posted 2010-May-17, 13:28

Up until now I've always loled at England winning the world cup (I was not alive in 1966). But now I will stop lol ing so I think they will go all the way. I will be rooting for New Zealand and North Korea mostly. Then after these two have been kicked out I will root for most European teams but in particular Germany and Serbia.
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Posted 2010-May-17, 13:34

I have voted every time for Netherlands since I got my first football shoes....will I ever get this bet right? ;)
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Posted 2010-May-17, 13:43

lol at Aberlour.
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Posted 2010-May-17, 13:59

gwnn, on May 17 2010, 02:28 PM, said:

but in particular Germany and Serbia.

Ballack is out of the tournament (injured)
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Posted 2010-May-17, 14:55

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Posted 2010-May-17, 15:27

I can't believe that NZ is included in other.
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Posted 2010-May-17, 16:45

Also, I can't wait for the Official Pre FIFA World Cup 2010 Thread. Rates to be pretty interesting!
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Posted 2010-May-17, 18:43

For purely practical reasons, I don't want England to win.

But then again, I can't imagine the mayhem around me when they lose...

...although I was on the bus a few months ago and overheard an Englishman telling his friend that he thinks this current batch of footballers are ***** and he's on the lookout for an Algerian flag so he can hang it outside his house when England lose to Algeria.
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Posted 2010-May-17, 20:06

I think this is Spain's Cup. Either that or they should consider demolishing all those stadiums and soccer fanatism.

How can someone root for the US?

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Posted 2010-May-17, 20:13

huh? are you a racist? why can't anyone root for US? I am also rooting for US.

US
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go America!!

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Posted 2010-May-17, 20:28

Racist? What race is the US? Those guys can't handle soccer yet. They even had to come up with a different name for it than anyone else.

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Posted 2010-May-17, 23:07

Yeah, well "football" was already taken.

Nationalist, I think, rather than racist. :)
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Posted 2010-May-17, 23:18

hmm ....BRAZIL win..........






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Posted 2010-May-18, 02:26

Where is the "Home" team?
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Posted 2010-May-18, 02:47

Cascade, on May 18 2010, 07:27 AM, said:

I can't believe that NZ is included in other.

you're so parochial wayne. Not only that Australia was grouped alongside NZ, among "others". How insulting - particulary after we were robbed of the cup last time.

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Posted 2010-May-18, 02:51

Hanoi5, on May 18 2010, 02:28 AM, said:

Racist? What race is the US? Those guys can't handle soccer yet. They even had to come up with a different name for it than anyone else.

So what? If you watch a football game between Venezuela and Brazil, do you root for Brazil because Venezuela are not as good as Brazil? I don't get it.

The 'soccer' issue also I don't get. Almost every country has a different name for football. American English is not really the same language as British English. Even though the British word seems more descriptive than the American word and most non-native speakers choose to use the British word, why can't Americans use their own?

I used racist in a figurative sense, I assumed it would be easy to understand as US really do have a lot of races. I apologize, I see it wasn't.
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Posted 2010-May-18, 05:24

I think Spain will win. But I've never predicted the winner of any football tournament.

I can't help myself on the soccer/football thing, so here it goes.
Originaly the name football was for sports that were played with a ball on foot, as opposed to sports on horseback.
Both rugby and soccer were football.
In England the football association had rules for what now is known as soccer.
Association was shortened to "soc" and extended with "er" in popular youth-language.
So when you played by the rules of the FA it was called soccer.
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Posted 2010-May-18, 08:30

Cascade, on May 17 2010, 04:27 PM, said:

I can't believe that NZ is included in other.

Not to worry "other" included different planets. WAIT! NZ is from .... :lol:
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Posted 2010-May-18, 08:38

jjbrr, on May 17 2010, 03:55 PM, said:

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hmmm USA seems to lead exactly 4-0 in this imaginary match :lol:
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