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***Official 2010 World Cup Soccer Discussion Thread***

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Highlights from 2006:




It is time boys and girls- it is one week away from the best world-wide sporting event on this planet:


The 2010 World Cup



Bring all your talk, discussion, smacktalk about the best event to showcase soccer here. Which team will rise to the top and claim the ultimate prize! Italy is the defending Champ and 31 other teams want it.


Who is your team? Who do think can actually survive and win?

In one week it begins: The 2010 World Cup!



Celebrate your team/country and pride for their chances and enjoy one of the best months that only comes around every 4 years! One week and it finally starts after all the qualifying, hype and talk.

The games begin in 1 week. :thumb02:


http://fifa-world-cup.easports.com/...act_C2301_2010_FIFA_World_Cup_-_Exact_LP1_AD1


 
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HELL YES ONLY 2 MORE DAYS!!!!!:happy01::happy03::happy01:



I'm stoked to see even France play on Friday and uber stoked to see what happens in the Mexico-South Africa match. That crowd will be going nuts and the home team usually always gets a HUGE boost from the energy from the fans. Mexico should win but home teams rise to the occasion and normally make it out of the first round so I can't wait to see how that goes down.

Then saturday rolls around and I get to watch my 2 favorite teams back to back- Argentina and then the USA. Argentina-Nigeria should be a good match and I can't wait to see Messi in action and in top form. I just really hope Maradona doesn't botch up the coaching too badly- definitely crossing my fingers on that. :(


With the USA-England- I'm realistic and know we probably won't win but I count them out completely. England losing their captain this close to the Cup is a bad break for them. I'm honestly rooting for a draw at best and then, if not, a close well-played loss so they are still confident to win their next 2 matches with Slovenia and Algeria so they can advance. I really don't want to see a replay of WC 2006 when we gave up a goal within the first 5 minutes before losing 3-0 to the Czech Republic- that sucked huge donkey balls after waiting for 4 years to see if we could build off the quarterfinal run in 2002.


Either way it's so close I can't wait! :thumb02:


This saturday I have Argentina/USA in the Cup, The Texas Longhorn Baseball team in the Super-Regionals and then UFC 115 all in one day. Many a Bud Lights will go down that day. :thumbsup::thumbsup:
 
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Man Argentina came out flying in the first 15-20 minutes then hit a bit of a lull there until the final 5 minutes. Messi looks to be in great form- his play has been fantastic so far. Me likey- me mucho likey. :thumb02:

Great header off the set piece but I'd like to see them get the second goal to really force the result.


Later on England v. USA. :D
 
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Yup- bad job on the weak goal by the English goalie but that is their team's achilles' heel. They've got a high quality team with low quality goalkeeping.


Either way totally stoked after the draw for US especially considering how fast England came out and scored. I seriously thought I was having horrible flashbacks to WC 2006 and the terrible start in the first game and this goal came even faster. At that point this game could have gotten ugly quick but we responded very better than I could have hoped for. Great result and sets us up nicely to have an even better chance to advance with the next 2 games up coming.


And yes, check the vbook, I bet the draw. :thumb02:
 
#29 ·
Yup- bad job on the weak goal by the English goalie but that is their team's achilles' heel. They've got a high quality team with low quality goalkeeping.


Either way totally stoked after the draw for US especially considering how fast England came out and scored. I seriously thought I was having horrible flashbacks to WC 2006 and the terrible start in the first game and this goal came even faster. At that point this game could have gotten ugly quick but we responded very better than I could have hoped for. Great result and sets us up nicely to have an even better chance to advance with the next 2 games up coming.


And yes, check the vbook, I bet the draw. :thumb02:
:thumb02:that's insanely bold, i thought the smart money was 2-1 england.
 
#32 ·
Damn- Germany took the Aussie boys behind the wood shed today- looked really impressive. I'm about to watch the Slovenia-Algeria match that I DVRed this morning to see what's up next for USA.

I didn't do the FIFA fantasy but I did a money bracket at work and so far it's looking solid.


I freaking love this event. :thumb02:
 
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