World Cup 2006
Writing by shinda on Thursday, 8 of June , 2006
I’m going to be honest (when haven’t I been), and lay it straight. I’ve never watched a full game of soccer or as the rest of the world likes to call it Football. I’ve played it, not to well mind you, but seeing as to how Mandeep went to the lengths of calling me and saying in his raspy loud voice, “yo guy write a post on it”, I feel nothing less then obliged to create this topic.
For those of you as ignorant as me to way it works (correct me if I’m wrong) you got several pools with 6 teams each. For the first while, each team plays within its pool, and from there the top two teams qualify for the actual tourney.
For more info on the teams and all that jazz check out the official site.
With that said here are my picks as to who’s going to win what pool:
Group A: 1st: Germany 2nd: Costa Rica
Group B: 1st: England 2nd: Sweden
Group C: 1st: Argentina 2nd: Serbia and Montenegro
Group D: 1st: Portugal 2nd: Mexico
Group E: 1st: Italy 2nd: USA
Group F: 1st: Brazil 2nd: Croatia
Group G: 1st: France 2nd: Korea
Group H: 1st: Spain 2nd: Saudi Arabia
Now I’ll leave ‘yall to go at it…
Category: Sports
Englands taking it this year, Rooneys toooooo good
not too mention hes only 20 or 21, he’s lebron of foot-ee-ball
Brazil all da wayyyyyyyyy… France aint gonna make it nowhere with 2 of their stars injured… England gonna do good, but once again will fall short… Germany is supposed to have a pretty good team as well.. but they won’t make it too far..
Group A:
1. Germany
2. Costa Rica
Group B:
1. England
2. Paraguay
Group C:
1. Argentina
2. Montenegro
Group D:
1. Portugal
2. Mexico
Group E:
1. Italy
2. USA
Group F:
1. Brazil
2. Croatia
Group G:
1. France
2. Korea
Group H:
1. Spain
2. Ukraine
In all honestly… half those teams listed suck… like every other year its between only a handful of teams. The rest of the countries really don’t have a chance. Brazil, England, Italy, France and I guess Portugal are the big guns in FIFA… a few other teams could possibly be fighting for the 5th spot. I’m not a hardcore sportsfan, so I don’t know TOO much bout this, but those are the teams I like… in the end, Brazil is going to take it!
brazil gonna take it all for sure
iran all the way, yeaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ok first off I have done my research and the way I want it is that i want England to finish second in their group and Brazil to finish 1st in theirs so that they can meet in the FINAL.
Ok well here I go with my picks:
Group A:
1.Germany
2.Poland
Group B:
1.Sweden
2.England**** I put them here cuz I WANT them to finish here otherwise they gonna win the group. hehe
Group C:
1.Netherland (Holland)
2.Argentina
Group D:
1.Mexico
2.Portugal
Group E:
1.Czech Republic
2.Italy P.S. This group is hard and I know I will be wrong hehe.
Group F:
1.Brazil
2.Croatia
Group G:
1.France
2.Korea
Group H:
1.Spain
2.Ukraine
Ill ask Shinda to put a post up about the 2nd Round. So dun worry all you FUTBAL Fans.
SSOOOCCCEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!
Ronaldo and BEckham whos 2 favourite players are those???
Group A: 1st: Germany 2nd: Ecuador
Group B: 1st: England 2nd: Sweden
Group C: 1st: Netherlands (Holland) 2nd: Argentina
Group D: 1st: Portugal 2nd: Mexico
Group E: 1st: Italy 2nd: Czech Republic
Group F: 1st: Brazil 2nd: Croatia
Group G: 1st: France 2nd: Swiss
Group H: 1st: Spain 2nd: Ukraine
*** Special Note: Those Who Didn’t even pick Holland (Netherlands) coming out of the round robin, you guys are jokers. Holland has a chance at the World Cup. But ofcourse Brazil and their ‘carpet soccer’ will win it all once again.
i’ma keep it real simple…..on a day when i be flying…ida say trinidad is taking this cup but yeh thats that heres mah declaration…
Group A:
1st: Germany
2nd: Costa Rica
Group B:
1st: England
2nd: Trinidad (U neva know)
Group C:
1st: Holland (neatherland)
2nd: Argentina
Group D:
1st: PORTUGAL
2nd: Mexico
Group E:
1st: Italy
2nd: USA
Group F:
1st: Brazil
2nd: Croatia
Group G:
1st: France
2nd: Korea
Group H:
1st: Spain
2nd: Ukraine
shindaaa recheck ur group A picks…too much baba roots eh
Group A
1Germany
2costa rica
Group B
1england
2trinidad
GroupC
1Argentina
2netharlands
GroupD
1PORTUGAL
2mexico
GroupE
1Italy
2USA
what the hell it got chopped up
Group F
1italy
2usa
Group G
1korea
2france
Group H
1Spain
2Soudi arabia
Waheguru Ji Ka Khalsa Waheguru Ji Ki Fateh
Firstly, It’s Football not Soccer.
Group A:
1. Germany
2. Poland
Group B:
1. England
2. Sweden
Group C:
1. Argentina
2. Holland
Group D:
1. Portugal
2. Mexico
Group E:
1. Italy
2. Czech Republic
Group F:
1. Brazil
2. Croatia
Group G:
1. France
2. Korea
Group H:
1. Spain
2. Ukraine
Heera Singh, last worldcup turkey and southkorea reached the semifinals so I don’t think that it’s going to be between a handful of teams. Everyone apart from Iran and Saudi and Trinadad and ofcourse Usa have a chance of winning it. Having said that ofcourse the cup is there for Brazil to lose. Heart says England, but I think Argentina will win it.
btw, Mandip Singh, if England finish second, they will have to play Germany in the second round - and seeing as you’ve done your research you probably know england haven’t got a very good record against the gerries.
Waheguru Ji Ka Khalsa Waheguru Ji Ki Fateh
yeah go world cup.. 90 minutes of slow, 2 goal games, with over 10 players falling and holding their legs or their faces looking for a foul..
I dont blame the sport..I blame the europeans for the flopping
they brought it in every sport
ball :Vlade, Ginobili, Dirk
Hockey: man too mayn here
I pick mandeeps home nation….Jamaica…go reggae boys (hopefully they still in it)
Harsimran Bhai,
Waaayyy to much hating, espeically from someone who enjoys sitting through a game of baseball..
Now I aint a big fan of soccer, but come on now, baseball over soccer? Baseball has to be a sport with some of the most un-athletic individuals. Only skill needed to be a good baseball player, is superb hand-eye coordination.
ahhah nah Shinda…
baseball is the most variate sport in the world….but im not about to go big i up to the extent that people big up soccer….. You cant watch a basball game and get all hyped up about anything really…its calm and passes ur timr.
Soccer is…ball, player, net…..with no variable to think of…………..its much like hockey in that sense, but hockey is quicker nad has more action…..
dont get me wrong, I am not hating on soccer, im hating on the europeans….. they are ruining sports with their wining.
To the soccer hater(s)..refer to this years Champions League Final..someone give this man a tape of that game.
Group A
1.Germany - Is Oliver Khan starting? Because Jens Lehman is a sick goalie.
2.Costa Rica
Group B
1.England
2.Sweden - HENRIKK LARSONNNNN will return to his glory days
Group C (group of death)
1. Argentina - Crespo should shine without Batistuta around.
2. Netherlands - Yooo were is Edgar Davids?
Wouldnt be surpised if Cote’divoire runs an upset in this group
Group D
1. Mexico
2. Portugal
Group E
1. Italy - i really want to go around Woodbridge with a Brazil flag, so i hope they loose.
2. Czech
Group F
1.Brazil
2.Croatia
Group G
1. France
2.Korea
Group H
1. Spain
2. Ukraine
harsimrans just pissed cause the heat lost and dirk is european and hes trying to take his anger out of footeeball/europeans
don’t hate hunny, DON’T HATE
“harsimrans just pissed cause the heat lost and dirk is european and hes trying to take his anger out of footeeball/europeans
don’t hate hunny, DON’T HATE”
ahahhahahh - jai yaar…………..
this has nothing to do with Disco and the heat (The heat are still winning it all by the way)…
its more about soccer being ****..I tried to hide my true feelings but soccer is ****..how come no one talks about it until the fourth year???
‘Oh did you see Baggio get slide tackled in his leg, but he started to hold his head in pain?’
‘Yeha the ref bought it tooo, he gave Muskh Maree a red card’
‘Yeah soccer is so awesome, its 0-0 goign into injury time, the excitement’
I would honestly take a slim jim rather than watch soccer
“Need some excitement, Snap it to a Slim Jim, OOOOOOOOO YEAAAHH”
I recall many years ago Harsimran hitting homeruns with that mini yellow bat, than making us jump over the fence to get the ball, to be greeted by a big *** dog. And he would have the nerve to say “baseball is the fastest game in the world”. That comment sticks in my mind because I still laugh at it to this day. If baseball is similar to anything it is Marine Land. Watching that beached whale David Wells trying to get up after he got injured was absolutely disgusting.
AHAAHAHAHAHAAHAH
AHHAHHAHAAHHAHAHA
AHAHHAHAHHHHAHAH
Yes Harp thas what im talking about, I was young and dumb back then, Baseball was my sport becasue I was like David Wells.
But the thing that still sticks with me is that SOccer is overrated….
It was back then, It is now…Truss all the gino’s to honk their horn like crazy to no avail as italy loses to somebody.
Truss everyone to jump on the brazil bandwagon to say they going to win it all
truss germany to buy the championship like france in 98 or was that 02, doesnt really matter it was too long ago..
truss all the englandees to go crazy for their team to see them lose yet again and talk about how great england is…
I want an african team to win the world cup, so i can chear with my african brothers…
GOAAAALLLL
now let me run and take my shirt off to show the world by starved upperbody……
GOAALLLLLLLLL
We all need to stop the hating. Harsimran Sion, stop hating on Soccer (don’t act like you’re not hating cuz u are) and the rest of u, stop hating on Harsimran Sion because he hates soccer. And Shinda baseball is wicked. Not watching it on TV but if you attend a live game its fun as hell. Especially wen ur having a runing conversation wit a center fielder and shitting on white boys who sittin in ur row. and harsimran brasil is going to win the world cup, the new kid aka KAKAAAA is ill. him along with ronaldhino n ronaldo (yes hes still got game) up front is jus too dirty for anyone to handle. Now for a funnier not, FIFA wants to hold a world cup in Brasil but they like dem boys so damn cheap dwn there. they didnt say that in so many words but u no they meant it.
and don’t worry harsimran heat will bounce back!
I’m with Harsimran on his soccer hating. Theres no action, not enough scoring, and overall it can be summed up by one word, Boring.
Plus I got no respect for you once every 4 year soccer fans, you know who you are, you dont talk about soccer ever, never wear the jersey’s, switch the channel if its on and never watch a full game, but all of a sudden the World Cup rolls around and you guys are the biggest fans in the world.
Actually Harsimran, we shouldnt even be hating this World Cup thing is just a phase. Its going to be done soon and everything’s back to normal agian for another 4 years.
it takes more skill to be a wicked soccer player than it does to be a wicked basketball player..the crazy footwork, coordination and concentration required in becoming a soccer player is far more respectable..
“Plus I got no respect for you once every 4 year soccer fans, you know who you are, you dont talk about soccer ever, never wear the jersey’s, switch the channel if its on and never watch a full game, but all of a sudden the World Cup rolls around and you guys are the biggest fans in the world. ”
No one gives **** about what you respect or don’t..thats like us sayin, we dont have respect for negative, pessimestic people like yourself.
Gurjeet why u gotta jokin the hating. most soccer fans watch soccer every year only difference is during the year not a lot of soccer matches r shown on tv cept on 22 on saturdays. n sometimes even those teams arnt at the top of their leagues. ur jus hatin on a great sport for no reason now.
Man, football comes on too early any other time, saturdays at like 8 am? comon, i wouldn’t even watch that if it was the nba finals, world cup is a time to rep your team, rep your home country, but as for half the people repping brazil, i gots no respect for them, unless u brazilian, and gagan, u aint
plus everyone cares what gurjeet has to say, you may not “yea” but everyone else does
wayne rooney….zindabad
Yo were is Edgar Davids?????????????????????????? ( the guy with dreads on Holland, use to play crazy on Juventus, got traded to Inter..who knows wer he is now)
yo i think gurjeet singh n harsimran singh wanna start sumtin
Gursheel Singh from 
Made Friday, 9 of June , 2006 at 7:45 pm
lets see this years its gona be hype with zadan comin out to retirement fance should me workin their *** off because its his last year
n lets see ROONY damn this guys wicked now englands even betta
germany bein the home team hav a lot of preasure and when their captain comes back lets see thy might win the cup
Group A:
1. Germany
2. Costa Rica
Group B:
1. England
2. Sweden
Group C:
1. Argentina
2. Netherlands
Group D:
1. Portugal
2. Mexico
Group E:
1. Italy
2. USA
Group F:
1. Brazil
2. Australia
Group G:
1. France
2. Korea
Group H:
1. Spain
2. Ukraine
You think we want to start seomthing?????
something has been started, post your real name boy.
As for the soccer having more skill than ball comment..your out of ur fricken mind…
everything soccer has so does ball…EVERYTHING (cept the diving, but hey you’ve seen rodmna play)
ball has even more….jumping (vert, one leg)
shooting (hand eye coordintion)
dribbling
Strength training
on top of soccer
plus I aint talkibg about how fit the soccer players.. Those mans run on avg 20 km a game, I havent run that much in my life, the soccer ref if more fit than anyone i know
Im talking about the game itself….
There are no variables to consider while watchnig the sport..no scenarios to ponder…its just get out there and try ot score…….
the game is slow paced, with the field being too big….teh refs blow too man whistles and the players fall down and act….
If you guys wanna talk some smack, put your names behind your posts
or are you mans possy like them soccer players??!?!
Yao Gurjeet it was a close one…….”But another one for the good guys”
soccer has strength training, have you seen the abs on david beckham..?
Also, there is dribbling in soccer, except its done with the feet..
Shooting- also done in soccer requires concentration, coordination and plain old skill
On top of that.. soccer players run the whole field back and forth, compare a field to a gym, well theres no comparison
oh and about jumping, soccer players jump when they need to head the ball
another thing u dont see in ball- headers
in regards to the game, however, i know soccer can be a bit slow, but who cares about how fast or slow something is when its good..heck, when basketball is on, i barely watch it..i flip through the damn channels like crazy.. with basketball people score every second repeating the same procedure over and over again..and its just plain BORING. theres no other word for it
Too many “once every 4 years” soccer bandwagon jumpers posting on this blog….half the people saying brazil this, or england that, dont even know half the starting lineup for their so-called teams. Maybe if more people learned who soccer players are by actually watching the club games instead of by playing FIFA, we’d actually get to watch more then 2 EPL games and 2 championship games a week in Canada. Who knows, we might even start getting some serie a games on TV with english commentary.
European teams are very over-rated this year this year…. I think most’a dem gonna flop…. sweden, poland, england, france, they aint gonna go too far… a lot of the south american teams that weren’t on the map before at makin it big this year… ecuador scored an upset win yday over poland… and sweden couldn’t even score a goal against Trinidad & Tobago (no disrespect to them, but Sweden supposedly supposed to be a powerhouse compared to them)… England couldn’t even score a goal against Paraguay, they had to rely on an ‘own goal’ to win their game… Ecuador seems to have a pretty good team from the way they played against Poland… they’re pretty good down the middle, the only way to beat them is from the sides, which is where they’re slowest… they’re 2 main guyz Carlos and Delgado are pretty quick, and Delgado’s got a lot of experience as well..
Look for the south American Teams to take a lotta da gamez…
peaceeeeeeeeeeeeee
two games 1-0 and 0-0
the action, the excitement, it’s pandemonium drama
dont underestimate Sweden there sick..Henrik Larson ain’t washed up as some might think. And damm Argentina vs Ivory Coast was sick today. DROGBAAAA!!
>>soccer has strength training, have you seen the abs on david beckham..?
no i have not but i will take your word for it ![]()
“two games 1-0 and 0-0
the action, the excitement, it’s pandemonium drama”
that 0-0 game was insane. sooo many scoring opportunites the Trini goalie was making “brilliant” saves. and the crowd was in pandemonium. Imagine Canada qualifying and getting a tie with France. We’d be going crazy too. Thats Trinidads first point ever in the world cup and those fans let it be known.
yaa thats why i picked trinidad n tobao
Yo Rogers is too damn wicked. dem boys be givin free Rogers on Demand for games that have already been played so if u miss any games durin the day come home at night n watch wen u want. **** is wicked.
Group A
1. Germany
2. Costa Rica
Group B
1. England
2. Paraguay
Group C
1. Argentina
2. MonteNEGRO ..haha
Group D
1. Portugal
2. Mexico
Group E
1. Italy
2. Czech
Group F
1. Brazil
2. Croatia
Group G
1. France
2. Korea
Group H
1. Spain
2. Saudees …filthy rich sons of mothers
Brazil is playing tomorrow but I have two finals tomorrow…tear…I’ll have to watch the rerun on Spanish channel. BTW How awesome were the Czechs today?!?!?! (this coming from a USAer).
GO CAROLINAA !!!
oh wait we gots football here.. in that case.. GO ARGENTINA !!! ![]()
common robin.. u can’t start makin predictions 3 dayz and 11 games later.. tha’s not fair ![]()
Who woulda thought that Saudi Arabia vs Tunisia woulda been one’a the most exciting games so far?
BRASILLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL..!!
You hiding in the dark like batman, while im robin in ur hood.
The soca warriors coming thru todaaaaayyy………yyyyyyyaaaaaaaiiiiiiiii
England advances……Rooney is back
what a wonderful day
anddddddddd Ghana’s off to the next round!!
bun alll you who **** on ranaldo! he wasnt ‘fat’ why would they let an unfit player on a national team, they have requirments that he met, 2 goals, both sik! bun u all!
ronaldo is still fat
sorry its RONALDO not ranaldo typo……soo hes ill, if hes fat hes unfit and slow, why cant he be stopped then?
It’s all about Robinho. Man is jus 22 years old and mad ill! They call him the next pele. Man dem is ill. Just look at these youngins on Brasil for years to come:
Ronaldhino: 26yrs old
Adriano: 24ys old
Kaka: 24yrs old
Fred: 23yrs old
Robinho: 22yrs old
Damn Brasil is like Canada in hockey, man dem are STACKED!!!
I gotta give props to FRED! His name is FRED!!! Jus normal old Fred but its so ill cuz its only one name. FRED! Brasil is ill!
















