World Cup Recap – June 9 to June 11

Author: MR
Filed under: Football
Date: Jun 11,2006 | 05:32 PM

World Cup 2006 Final Scores - June 9 to June 11 What a weekend of games! The 2006 World Cup started out with a high scoring match between Germany and Costa Rica. Costa Rica put up a good fight for the Germans, but Germany’s offense defeated them in the end. After that, a stunning peformance by Ecaudor’s team upsetting Poland’s hope for a supposedly easy win. I was so happy that Poland lost. This even emphasizes my previous post, Why Poland won’t win the World Cup.

England was horrible playing against Paraguay. They didn’t even score. The only goal they had was Paraguay’s own goal off of Gammara. Don’t tell me that it was going to be a goal even if Gammara didn’t touch it, but anyway England still won and gained the 3 points (unfortunately).

Trinidad and Tobago aka the “Soca Warriors” stunned Sweden and the entire world with there amazing goal keeper, Shaka Hislop! The Swedish fans were crying after this match, while the Trini people were going crazy like it was Caribbana in Germany. Go Soca Warriors!

Ivory Coast played well against Argentina, even though they were down 2 – 0, they managed to score 1 goal trying to keep there hopes alive, but in the end Argentina came out on top. If Ivory Coast gave Argentina problems, then they can easily be tough opponents for the Netherlands and Serbia & Montengro.

Speaking about those countries, they had their first match against each other, with the Netherlands being victorious with only 1 goal. The game was heavily challenged by Serbia & Montengro, but the Netherlands defense kept them scoreless.

Mexico owned Iran! I was so happy. I was going for Mexico all the way. Iran was horrible in the 2nd half when Mexico scored 2 goals within 5 minutes. Mexico is definetly going to make it to the semi-finals as my predictions say.

Angola gave up a good fight for Portugal, but Portugal won. I didn’t watch this game, so I don’t have much details.

Upcoming games to look out for: Monday you have Czech against the USA. I hope the US loses. TUESDAY – BRASIL’S FIRST GAME and that’s all you need to know!

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World Cup 2006 starts today!

Author: MR
Filed under: Football, Video
Date: Jun 9,2006 | 12:51 AM

Some person made this cool teaser video:

World Cup 2006 starts today, June 9th, and ends on July 9th, 2006. You can find the schedule of games, the EST time (for us Americans) and what channel it will be on on ESPNsoccernet.

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World Cup 2006 Predictions

Author: MR
Filed under: Football
Date: Jun 6,2006 | 05:24 PM

Here are my predictions for each group for the first round of the World Cup:

Group A	Group B
~~Poland~~	England \| 1st Place
Germany \| 1st Place	~~Paraguay~~
~~Costa Rica~~	TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO (MR PICK!) \| 2nd Place
Ecuador \| 2nd Place	~~Sweden~~
Group C	Group D
Argentina \| 2nd Place	Mexico \| 1st Place
~~Cote d’Ivorie (Ivory Coast)~~	~~Iran~~
~~Serbia and Montenegro~~	~~Angola~~
Netherlands \| 1st Place	Portugal \| 2nd Place
Group E	Group F
Italy \| 1st Place	BRASIL (MR PICK!) \| 1st Place
~~Ghana~~	~~Croatia~~
~~USA~~	~~Australia~~
Czech Republic \| 2nd Place	Japan \| 2nd Place
Group G	Group H
France \| 1st Place	Spain \| 1st Place
~~Switzerland~~	~~Ukraine~~
Korea Republic \| 2nd Place	~~Tunisia~~
~~Togo~~	Saudi Arabia \| 2nd Place

Here are my predictions for stage 2, including the quarter-finals, semi-finals and the finals:

No I am not a front runner, I have been a Brasil fan since I started to watch the World Cup back in 1994. Plus, I’m Guyanese, and the nearest country to us that participates in the World Cups is Brasil. I’m also a Trinidad & Tobago since it is there first time in football history to participate in the World Cup.

Go Brasil!! Go Soca Warriors (nickname of the T&T football team) !!

Other World Cup Predictions on my friend’s blog, Journey of a Traveler.

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