IceNarcissus, on Dec 7 2009, 03:17 AM, said:
Upsets galore! Every cup adds just a couple more upsets than the one before, it seems.
This is not what the statistics show. Lats WC was almost completely upsetless...
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Posted 07 December 2009 - 08:42 AM
This is not what the statistics show. Lats WC was almost completely upsetless...
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Posted 07 December 2009 - 10:38 AM
Faster, on Dec 7 2009, 02:25 AM, said:
Argentina won in CONCACAF.
The weather in SA in June will be their winter, temperatures more conducive to European football.
The weather in SA in June will be their winter, temperatures more conducive to European football.
Come on, Mexico geopolitically is Latin America...
I want to see Argentina winning a World Cup in Europe... They simply can't.
Only Brazil made the World Tour on winning World Cups...
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Posted 07 December 2009 - 12:35 PM
dannyelbrazil, on Dec 7 2009, 10:38 AM, said:
Come on, Mexico geopolitically is Latin America...
I want to see Argentina winning a World Cup in Europe... They simply can't.
Only Brazil made the World Tour on winning World Cups...
I want to see Argentina winning a World Cup in Europe... They simply can't.
Only Brazil made the World Tour on winning World Cups...
Its still a different continent and has a weather pattern during the tournament that is not similar to Argentina's during their football season.
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Posted 07 December 2009 - 01:17 PM
For me, weather has almost no influence in a world cup...
The 1994 WC in USA was really hot and 7 out of 8 teams in the quarter-finals were europeans, including a nordic one (Sweden), which finished in third place...
The 1994 WC in USA was really hot and 7 out of 8 teams in the quarter-finals were europeans, including a nordic one (Sweden), which finished in third place...
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dannyelbrazil, on Dec 6 2009, 07:35 PM, said:
It already happened... France 3 - Brazil 0 in 1998... LOL
lol - I wouldn't call France an "easy" opponent...
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Posted 07 December 2009 - 03:22 PM
Why would the South African climate affect South American teams? I still don't understand it...
South Africa has a very similar climate with the South American countries and in the same months of the years... besides, American countries are more used to play in higher elevations than the European countries: Johannesburg is over 1,700 m and La Paz and Quito, where almost all the players have played at least once, are over 3,000 m... I don't know if there is an European city as high as those cities...
And if there is a chance that the South African climate could be favourable to the European players... don't forget that almost all the players of South American countries have played a lot of years in Europe so there won't be a lot of differences.
South Africa has a very similar climate with the South American countries and in the same months of the years... besides, American countries are more used to play in higher elevations than the European countries: Johannesburg is over 1,700 m and La Paz and Quito, where almost all the players have played at least once, are over 3,000 m... I don't know if there is an European city as high as those cities...
And if there is a chance that the South African climate could be favourable to the European players... don't forget that almost all the players of South American countries have played a lot of years in Europe so there won't be a lot of differences.
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Posted 07 December 2009 - 03:33 PM
KRATK, on Dec 7 2009, 06:22 PM, said:
Why would the South African climate affect South American teams? I still don't understand it...
South Africa has a very similar climate with the South American countries and in the same months of the years... besides, American countries are more used to play in higher elevations than the European countries: Johannesburg is over 1,700 m and La Paz and Quito, where almost all the players have played at least once, are over 3,000 m... I don't know if there is an European city as high as those cities...
And if there is a chance that the South African climate could be favourable to the European players... don't forget that almost all the players of South American countries have played a lot of years in Europe so there won't be a lot of differences.
South Africa has a very similar climate with the South American countries and in the same months of the years... besides, American countries are more used to play in higher elevations than the European countries: Johannesburg is over 1,700 m and La Paz and Quito, where almost all the players have played at least once, are over 3,000 m... I don't know if there is an European city as high as those cities...
And if there is a chance that the South African climate could be favourable to the European players... don't forget that almost all the players of South American countries have played a lot of years in Europe so there won't be a lot of differences.
Well said!
O also don't get all this fuss about the weather...
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Posted 07 December 2009 - 03:34 PM
It's not so much that South Africa's climate won't favour the South Americans, it's more that it won't kill-off the Europeans. The heat of some countries' summers has had a visible effect on teams not used to playing in them, but they won't have that problem this time round. A high-tempo, pressing game, of the sort favoured by, for example, England, should be easier in South Africa than in other climates.
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Posted 07 December 2009 - 03:49 PM
Feheva, on Dec 7 2009, 08:33 PM, said:
Well said!
O also don't get all this fuss about the weather...
O also don't get all this fuss about the weather...
That's because you live in a country where it's always hot, you lucky git!
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Posted 07 December 2009 - 04:02 PM
All I can say is expect mixed weather.
Its not a European Winter in Cape Town, more like May/June in London.
Its cold at night in the highveld but don't expect rain.
Expect a few snow capped mountains in the Cape and Drakensberg.
Durban is hot and humid, basically summer.
Its not a European Winter in Cape Town, more like May/June in London.
Its cold at night in the highveld but don't expect rain.
Expect a few snow capped mountains in the Cape and Drakensberg.
Durban is hot and humid, basically summer.
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