World Cup 2006 Germany

[Colombian Harry]

Thanks for the info...just like I thought only South America and Europe have ever won

Gornicevo is correct. South American teams and European teams have won in the past. Here is another piece of trivia: When the world cup has been played in Europe a European team has won the world cup. When the world cup has been played in the Americas a South American team has won the world cup. There are only 2 exceptions: the World Cup of 1958 was played in Sweden(Europe) and was won by Brazil(South America). The other exception is World Cup 2002 played in South Korea/Japan(Asia) and was won by Brazil(South America).

Do you want to know who won in the past? I'll tell you:

Argentina has 2.
Brazil has 5.
England has 1.
France has 1.
Germany has 1. West Germany has 2.
Italy has 3.
Uruguay has 2.

Anyway, today is the day that World Cup draw takes place in Germany at apporximately 1:20pm EST (1330). I'll be following it on TV. The first eight seeds have already been picked back on the sixth. They are: Germany, Brazil, England, Spain, Mexico, France, Argentina, and Italy. It will be interesting to see what teams will be in which groups.

 

[Colombian Harry]

The World Cup draw took place yesterday and all 32 have been placed in the 8 groups. They are as follows:

Group A
Germany
Costa Rica
Poland
Ecuador

Group B
England
Paraguay
Trinidad & Tobago
Sweden

Group C
Argentina
Ivory Coast
Serbia & Montenegro
Netherlands

Group D
Mexico
Iran
Angola
Portugal

Group E (Some sports commentators call this group the group of death)
Italy
Ghana
USA
Czech Republic

Group F
Brazil
Croatia
Australia
Japan

Group G
France
Switzerland
South Korea
Togo

Group H
Spain
Ukraine
Tunisia
Saudi Arabia

The first game will take place on June 9 and it will be Germany vs. Costa Rica.

 

[SONYA]

Hmmm looks like the draw was good for Portugal

btw didn't know that about country's having a tendency to win when hosted in their continente

 

[Gornicevo]

The Group Of Death is a toss-up between C and E. They're both pretty tough.

Easiest group is probably D or H, but with Spain you never know. LOL

 

[SONYA]

Well in 2002 Portugal had an easy group USA, South Korea and Poland, they blew it and didn't make it on...hopefully 2006 won't be a repeat