WORLD CUP GERMANY 2006

Hi Guys and gals...

sorry for not writting for a while.. But hey.. the job, the family and all the other fun stuff keeping me busy... . I wish to retire next week, but haven't hit the jackpot yet. Well that’s not the topic of this article. It’s rather the coverage of the world cup 2006.

I will analyze each and every team that qualified to the world cup and what they could achieve.

Here is first of all a world map with all the qualified teams that might be interesting for some:

We will start With Group A:

The fates were clearly smiling on the hosts of the 2006 FIFA World Cup Germany™. Pitted against Costa Rica, Poland and Ecuador, the Mannschaft face three capable teams, but they are surely well equipped to negotiate their way through to the knock-out stages. The key, of course, will be to not underestimate their opponents, a lesson both France and Argentina learned to their cost in 2002. For their part, the Poles and Ecuadorians will be confident after impressive qualification campaigns, while Costa Rica already showed themselves capable of causing an upset in 1990.
FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking
Germany 16th
Costa Rica 21st
Poland 23rd
Ecuador 37th


I can tell you with this group we will see nothing but great matches, it's a perfect combination of soccer skill coming from the Latin Americans and technical thinking from the Europeans. If you ask me today who will make it to the second round, I will tell you that for sure Germany and Poland. The Germans will achieve second round due to them paying at home; as for the poles, will they are in my opinion the heavy weights in this group with the solid World cup qualification results. It's a team that showed great deal of commitment, perseverance and skill. Sorry to put the Latins as the group losers, but I believe that they got the skill, but lack the experience and technical thinking aspect of the game.

Once again, it will be a great group to watch, but if you wanna bet money, put it on Germany and Poland.

Next week, I will give more of a thorough analysis of Group B, which it's composed of England, Trinidad and Tobago, Paraguay and Sweden.