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[Rafa]

South Africa will win! haha

[Dinhu4ever]

Mo Rush, on Dec 6 2009, 09:51 PM, said:

South Africa will win! haha

Hey Mo, have you heard Parreira's English yet? Is it as good as Santana's? XD

[DannyelBrazil]

Brazil or a African team will win this WC.
Well, according to the history. Only Brazil won World Cups outside its continent.

[faster]

Argentina won in CONCACAF.

The weather in SA in June will be their winter, temperatures more conducive to European football.

[IceNarcissus]

Upsets galore! Every cup adds just a couple more upsets than the one before, it seems.

[lucas_leobas]

Faster, on Dec 6 2009, 11:25 PM, said:

Argentina won in CONCACAF.

The weather in SA in June will be their winter, temperatures more conducive to European football.

The CONMEBOL dominance outside Europe has nothing to do with weather. 1962 and 1978 World Cups in Chile and Argentina were winter WCs just like South Africa's. On the other hand, WCs in Europe are sometimes in scorching weather due to the summer conditions.

It's like the fact that a movie can't win a Best Picture Oscar without a Best Editing nomination: there's no explanation, but that's just the way things are.

[micheal_warren]

IceNarcissus, on Dec 7 2009, 06:17 PM, said:

Upsets galore! Every cup adds just a couple more upsets than the one before, it seems.

It would be great if the All Whites (New Zealand) could upset Paraguay or Slokavia!!! A draw for us would be an upset!

[gotosy]

KRATK, on Dec 6 2009, 06:15 PM, said:

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I think it's a psychological thing... I agree that teams like Cote d'Ivoire, Spain, Serbia or Paraguay could easily beat most of their opponents in any match... or even the smaller ones like Honduras or New Zealand... but playing the World Cup is really different... better teams in other ocassions couldn't beat their own favouritism and had lost against the classic teams (Brazil, Italy, Germany,... )

its a world cup factor, thats why I belive that one of these "classic teams" will won in 2010

[RobH]

dannyelbrazil, on Dec 7 2009, 04:03 AM, said:

Brazil or a African team will win this WC.
Well, according to the history. Only Brazil won World Cups outside its continent.

A fairly meaningless statistic in all honesty, especially when you consider the climate at this particular world cup will be much more favourable to Northern and Western European teams in particular.

[Rogerioandrade]

aluz, on Dec 5 2009, 12:04 AM, said:

Germany has a pretty tough group.

Agreed. Serbia and Australia both have some great talents and Ghana is kind of misterious to me. People say Ghana has a good team but they sometimes fall to their own lack of emotional control when things are not ok. Germany is always strong at World Cups and may qualify in 1st place with some effort. I imagine a fierce battle for the 2nd spot among the other three.