2010 World Cup - South Africa

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

There is only 276 days left until greatest tournament in the world. The FIFA World Cup! This time it will be held in South Africa. Should be a pretty exciting tournament as usual. I can't wait, I have been going through withdrawals since the 2006 World Cup here in Germany.

Who are your favorites to win? Any other predictions?



Here are the teams that have qualified so far for the 2010 World Cup:

South Africa (Host)
Australia
Japan
South Korea
North Korea
Netherlands
Brazil

Teams that will most likely qualify (I guess you could say these are my predictions of who the rest of the teams will be, it will be updated as they qualify or don't qualify):

Côte d'Ivoire
Ghana
Algeria
Nigeria
Tunisia
Saudi Arabia
Denmark
Switzerland
Greece
Germany
Russia
Slovakia
Spain
England
France
Italy
Serbia
Croatia
United States
Mexico
Honduras
Chile
Paraguay
Argentina
Columbia

Here are the next Qualifying matches:

09 Sept. 2009
Gabon vs. Cameroon
Saudi Arabia vs. Bahrain
Faroe Islands vs. Lithuania
Czech Republic vs. San Marino
Malta vs. Sweden
Liechtenstein vs. Finland
Northern Ireland vs. Slovakia
Wales vs. Russia
Bosnia Herzegovina vs. Turkey
Belarus vs. Ukraine
England vs. Croatia
Andorra vs. Kazakhstan
Albania vs. Denmark
Hungary vs. Portugal
Slovenia vs. Poland
Germany vs. Azerbaijan
Romania vs. Austria
Israel vs. Luxembourg
Armenia vs. Belgium
Moldova vs. Greece
Latvia vs. Switzerland
Spain vs. Estonia
El Salvador vs. Costa Rica
Trinidad and Tobago vs. United States
Mexico vs. Honduras
Bolivia vs. Ecuador
Uruguay vs. Columbia
Paraguay vs. Argentina
Venezuela vs. Peru
Brazil vs. Chile

[Lucky13]

I honestly don't have much hope for Sweden this time...

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

They have a shot. They are in 3rd place in their group and 5 points behind first place. They need to win out the rest of the games and hope that the leaders of the group (Denmark and Hungary) lose out the rest of their games.

Very long shot, but not impossible.

[Lucky13]

True indeed mate....a VERY loooong shot!

[syscom3]

The US will qualify, put up a respectable showing in the preliminaries and then suffer a complete breakdown in round 1 of the playoffs.

[rochie]

what scares me is i'm quite optomistic about englands chances under capello, never thought i'd feel like that about england

[Marcel]

It's really amazing. The Dutch pro's didn't think it necessary this time to wait qualifying until the last match. I can't remember when it was the last time they qualified this early.

[Colin1]

sorry to be the party-pooper
but I think it's going to be interesting to see how the SA authorities handle tourist crime, there's going to be alot of foreigners coming to SA who possibly know that it's bad for crime without really comprehending just how bad.

I really hope it's a great tournament but I'm not getting sucked in by the Capello hype; I don't think our chances are better than they have been for the last 4 or 5 tournaments.

[TheMustangRider]

After watching the United States performance in the Confederations Cup some months ago, I hope they make it to the second phase at least.

[syscom3]

sorry to be the party-pooper but I think it's going to be interesting to see how the SA authorities handle tourist crime, there's going to be alot of foreigners coming to SA who possibly know that it's bad for crime without really comprehending just how bad.

You are correct on that.

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

sorry to be the party-pooper
but I think it's going to be interesting to see how the SA authorities handle tourist crime, there's going to be alot of foreigners coming to SA who possibly know that it's bad for crime without really comprehending just how bad.

I agree. Me and a few friends were going to fly to S. Africa for the games, but decided not to because of the same thoughts.

I really hope it's a great tournament but I'm not getting sucked in by the Capello hype; I don't think our chances are better than they have been for the last 4 or 5 tournaments.

I think England is looking real good right now and they have good chances, but I think they will do what they do a lot of the time. Which is look good and them fall apart in the tournament. I am just glad they are going to qualify. I missed them in the European Cup. They are one of the teams (Germany, England, Italy, France, Brazil, Argentina, Netherlands) that really make a tournament for me.

[B-17engineer]

I like Italy or Germany!

[Amsel]

I think Germany has a great chance to win, just looking at them the last few years. Spain is a huge contender also; hard to say!

Maybe Argentina vs. Germany in the final!

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

I think Germany has a great chance to win, just looking at them the last few years. Spain is a huge contender also; hard to say!

Maybe Argentina vs. Germany in the final!

Germany will at least make the final four, but they have not been as strong as they were the last few years. They are going through some changes right now with some very young talented players. If they can build on those young players they have a good chance, but it will still be hard to top Spain or Brazil.

My favorite for a final would be a Germany vs. England or a Germany vs. Argentina final.

[jamierd]

Germany to beat england in the final with a very dubious late goal just to see justice served and stop the english dishing up 1966 every time the world cup is mentioned lol