I pick Brazil to beat Germany in the finals again.

Portugal rules at Xpert11... It´s a good start for the world cup...

Czuch Chuckers: winning lol

What is the biggest hurdle facing the US in this world cup?

Oh ok..didn't know what it meant...Thank You! I think they may be a dangerous team to play. They did play tough in the last World Cup even tho the scores didn't dictate it

MagicDragon: Inscrutable - I mean hard to fathom, I don't know what to expect from them. They were playing great football in Korea/Japan, other recent results are not so dazzling though. It's easier to prepare for a team there's a lot of information about, which the USA isn't. They're simply inscrutable...:)

Pedro Martínez: Watch out for Mexico & what does inscrutable mean?

Pedro Martínez:
Well funny draw to us Portuguese because we are going to be the godfather of the newcomer Angola. Which we were relately in the past. Just one wish that the last game between Portugal and Angola doesn't repeat it ever! The game didn't finish it because there wasn't enough Angola players.

Besides that a warning to the Czeck Republic, be careful with USA ;-) We weren't on our last world cup! :-(

So my favourites are:
A: Germany and Poland
B: England and Sweden
C: Argentia and Netherlands
D: Portugal and Mexico
E: Italy and Czeck Republic
F: Brazil and Australia
G: France and Switzerland
H: Spain and Ukraine

MagicDragon: I was hoping not to get the USA from the last basket, they're inscrutable. I will personally attend this match in Gelsenkirchen and believe it will end up in the similar way as the last time these two teams (or actually Czechoslovakia and the USA) met at the WC (4-0). :) And yea, Group E is one of the toughest, maybe together with Group F. Looks like an easy way for Germany, Portugal, France and Spain. I was personally hoping the Czech Rep. would play in Group D, but the Portuguese took the place...:)

Pedro Martínez: I was watching the draw yesterday & was hoping they would have the USA in the G group. It looks like Germany & Brazil are going to breeze thru their groups. Looks like Group E is going to be the toughest

A: Germany, Costa Rica, Poland, Ecuador
B: England, Paraguay, Trinidad and Tobago, Sweden
(LOL @ Eriksson)
C: Argentina, Ivory Coast, Serbia and Montenegro, the Netherlands
D: Mexico, Iran, Angola, Portugal
E: Italy, Ghana, USA, Czech Republic
F: Brazil, Croatia, Australia, Japan
G: France, Switzerland, Korea, Togo
H: Spain, Ukraine, Tunisia, Saudi Arabia

Nuno Miguel: It didn´t surprise me... He is completely dumb... He must have some lessons from Mourinho, if he wants to be someone...

Once again, Mr. Ferguson can surprise me, with his magnificent skill and tactics. The game with Benfica shows how great he is. Keep him in the club for many years, to give the other poor teams a chance to have some success...
Thanks again Mr Ferguson for your brilliant genius!!!

The new season at Xpert11 is almost at the end. It´s time for the players who wants to play there, to ask Bry to join, so they can play the new season...

Beren the 32nd: well seeing as you have our ashes, (lol) I'm backing the Pak'ies. We've got our own contest this weekend taking on the Kiwis in Auckland.

Well, Sporting always suufers a goal at least. We have Ricardo as goalkeeper... LOL

Ferjo: ah ok! he was just used to trade :)

hmm you both seem to agree porto will score at least once :)

Hrqls: 2-1 for Sporting... Liedson is going to score twice...

Valckx was a brilliant defender.

Hrqls:
He didn't even train!

Ok guess I'd better explain, Sporting was just an intermediate for Rijkaard transfer.

Ferjo: hmm not too bad a job .. getting paid (although less than when he would have played) .. but doing nothing (ok he had to train :))

hmm now we need andres thought about the score-to-be :)

Hrqls:
Well last season was 3-0, this time I'll be happy if we won 2-0. ;-)

Thats the funny, Rijkaard didn't play but was on contract with Sporting, just before he went to Italy.

Ferjo: ah! i didnt know rijkaard played there :)

what will the score be ? do you think ? ;)

Hrqls:
It was no coicidence, I know its dutch! I have good dutch friends, because of Frisian Checkers and International ones. Yes dutch are the Best players! ;-)

Well Sporting had dutch football players, Rijkaard was one of that players believe it or not but never put the shirt on. HeHeHehehehe
The other one was Stan Valckx. Pretty good defender.

I better ignore Andre for meantime! :-)

Andre Faria: hmm ok .. then i dont mind that much wether they win or lose :)

care to place any predictions ? ;)

nope, just Porto´s coach...

Andre Faria: hmm .. does any of those teams have any dutch players play for them ? ;)

Hrqls:

Andre Faria: lol :) good luck :)

Next Friday we´re going to have Porto-Sporting... It´s a shame, but we´ve to beat Porto in his own stadium...

Ferjo: hehe nice to greet me with 'hoi' .. its dutch . but i guess you know (or it must be a nice coincidence to be portugese as well :))

az was nicely at #2 ... but the last couple of games didnt go that well .. they could have been #1 at the winter stop again .. but i guess they wont

ah well .. maybe it will motivate them more in the second half :)

congrats on being #1 .. be sure to keep it :)
(and dont listen to andre ;))

Ferjo: Not for long. Peseiro and Dias da Cunha are gone...

Hrqls:
Hoi, no problem, hope everything is ok with you.

Yes Koeman won that game, but now we are first on championship again. :-D

bumble: lol! it seems panda is the one in your family who knows football best then! :)

(she made you put your money on greece)

Bry: ouch! any list would have been ok .... but not a list with the germans one spot ABOVE the netherlands! *grumble* :)

Ferjo: sorry i am this late with my answer .. real life got a hold of me .. but i managed to push it away for a little today :)

i dont like adriaanse for his attitude to supporters and press .. in my oppinion he thinks too much of himself .. he is a good coach .. but there are better ones (i think) or at least coaches of equal skill but with better attitudes :)

he is great when his team wins .. he is not that great when his team loses :)

(i think the team of koeman won that game ?)

he did a great deal to az though .. i cant deny that :) and am thankful to him for that :)

dams: So England vs Pakistan - any preferences? Currently looks like England will lose the series as they've squandered their good start in this match with too many sweep shots.

skipinnz: I guess I was the other one :-) Do I take it that the number is now rapidly shooting up to the 3 mark?

Congrats to Australia on making it to the Germany'06.

dams: Hi dams, yes there are cricket fans out here. If you scroll back you will see that there are 2 of us that were concerned over the ashes.

Socrates: Is it really so obvious?.......definitely not to me...

Brazil is obviously the favorites with a lot of the same talent as 02 with new young guns for 06. USA will be the sleeper.

Hi all

Any cricket fans out there?

http://www.fifa.com/en/comp/index/0,2442,U172005,00.html?comp=U17&year=2005

mexico its world cup soccer champion of U17, so i think mexico is my favorite :) to germany 2006

And Ronaldo is being heard by the Scotland Yard...

Bruno Jesus: Dias da Cunha resigned a few minutes ago. At last!!!!!

Andre Faria:The President won't resign the club!Eventually he will set elections for the board (I hope)...anyway I think he suffers from Alzheimer or something like that...saying that if he owned the club the coach Peseiro would never ever leave the club...go figure once again!

And the president will resign today. Hopefully...

Peseiro resigned yesterday...

Andre Faria: However I think he won't last till the end of the week...if so,he sould be shot!And that stupid President too they are destroying the club!

Andre Faria:Well...he wanted to resign,but President of Sporting didn't accept his resignation...go figure!