Which Team Will Win the 2010 World Cup? *RESOLVED*

Lol

If you were to visit Dutchyland I’d give you a beer for the trouble of it.


I don’t dare betting. Of course I want the Netherlands to win... but dang, Brazil!

We met them before..... ’98... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9Z5wLJ7BUE

I cried after that match. lol

I’m also for the Netherlands in this amazing intercontinental duel...

Can we color these forums orange if we win? :d

Is Brazil the New York Yankees of international soccer?

I’ve rooted against the Yankees forever. Do I have to root against Brazil now?

would be fun no if the dutch could win....

And yeah FIFA needs there behinds kicked, get rid of those old idiots.

Bob,

No, the NY Yankees win because they have a lot
of money and buy all the best players... making
it unfair for the rest of the league.

Brazil is different, they seem to be born to play
football (soccer). I have had the chance to get
to know many Brazilians and to go to Brazil several
times and you can start playing a street or beach game
with them and they are all really good players... it is
amazing... they also have a ton of registered amateur players
in formal leagues so it is really easy to choose 23 that
are just amazing.

In fact, their problem is the inverse, it is really hard to
select 23 players for the national team, not because they
have to look for players, but because they have so many to
choose from...

Well I dont agree there. It is in my opinion a matter of sport number one in latin america, also in africa and countries like spain etc. So from very young loads of kids play soccer on the street and in clubs. Also clubs have special training programs. An example, Dutch clubs have education/soccer centers on the African continent. So that s the main difference I think. Popularity and education. But I might be wrong...

Heres a link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_William_Miller that explains that football was introduced to Brazil by an Englishman named Charles Miller around 1894 and here http://www.v-brazil.com/culture/sports/football.htmlwhy it caught on so much there. If your English, talk about shooting yourself in both feet or what!

And even more, you must know that after organising football in England, it were the English that more or less also institutionalized football in the form of an FA, that quickly grew into the FIFA. Ouroboros like.

I wonder if the English got the football idea from the
Maya ball game. They used a round goal (like my logo)
to score, with a rubber like ball and a wider than longer
field of play... it was much harder to score than on
the 7 meter goal of our days.

The stakes were higher too... the winning team was
sacrificed to the gods... oouch!! the Brazilians would be
gone... maybe that is why the Maya Empire came to end...
too much ball game...

in this World Cup we should sacrifice the refs to the
gods, just to make them pay more attention!!