dave199 57 Report post Posted May 30, 2006 I just came across this. It's a World Cup Simulator. I wouldn't take it seriously but its interesting to look at these simulators and see how accurate they can really be. http://yalma.fime.uanl.mx/~futmex-l/Simulator/ The overall statistics produced are: Group A 1.Germany 2.Poland 3.Costa Rica 4.Ecuador Group B 1.England 2.Paraguay 3.Sweden 4.Trinidad & Tobago Group C 1.Netherlands 2.Argentina 3.Serbia-Montenegro 4.Cote D'Ivoire Group D 1.Mexico 2.Portugal 3.Angola 4.Iran Group E 1.Italy 2.Ghana 3.Czech Republic 4.USA Group F 1.Brazil 2.Croatia 3.Japan 4.Australia Group G 1.France 2.Korea Republic 3.Switzerland 4.Togo Group H 1.Spain 2.Ukraine 3.Tunisia 4.Saudi Arabia Top 5 Teams that made the most semi-final appearances in the simulation: 1.Brazil 10 2.Italy 9 2.Netherlands 9 4.England 8 4.Germany 8 Which team won the most finals: Argentina 4 Italy 3 Netherlands 3 Brazil 2 England 2 Germany 2 Poland 2 France 1 Korea Rep. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
KRATK 44 Report post Posted May 30, 2006 Those simulations sucked!!! xD In France 98, only two times of 50, France was predicted as the Champion. And in Korea Japan 2002, France was the favourite for the trophy. Latest matches: May 25th: Melbourne, AUS: AUSTRALIA 1-0 GREECE Gothenburg, SWE: SWEDEN 0-0 FINLAND May 26th: Seoul, KOR: SOUTH KOREA 2-0 BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA Cleveland, USA: UNITED STATES 2-0 VENEZUELA Chicago, USA: ROMANIA 2-0 NORTHERN IRELAND Bochum, GER: TURKEY 1-1 GHANA Innsbruck, AUT: SAUDI ARABIA 0-2 CZECH REPUBLIC May 27th Alternkirchen, GER: GEORGIA 2-3 NEW ZEALAND Freiburg, GER: GERMANY 7-0 LUXEMBOURG Belgrade, SCG: SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO 1-1 URUGUAY Chicago, USA: ROMANIA 0-0 COLOMBIA Basel, SUI: SWITZERLAND 1-1 COTE D'IVOIRE Graz, AUT: WALES 2-1 TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO Aarhus, DEN: DENMARK 1-1 PARAGUAY Evora, POR: PORTUGAL 4-1 CAPE VERDE Albacete, ESP: SPAIN 0-0 RUSSIA SaintDenis, FRA: FRANCE 1-0 MEXICO Rotterdam, NED: NETHERLANDS 1-0 CAMEROON May 28th Osijek, CRO: CROATIA 2-2 IRAN Hartford, USA: UNITED STATES 1-0 LATVIA Paris, FRA: MOROCCO 0-1 MALI Madrid, ESP: MACEDONIA 2-1 SPAIN Kiev, UKR: UKRAINE 4-0 COSTA RICA Hamburg, GER: TURKEY 1-1 ESTONIA May 29th Leicester, ENG: JAMAICA 1-4 GHANA May30th Jablonec, CZE: CZECH REPUBLIC 1-0 COSTA RICA Chorzów, POL: POLAND 1-2 COLOMBIA Leverkusen, GER: GERMANY vs. JAPAN Manchester, ENG: ENGLAND vs. HUNGARY Salerno, ITA: ARGENTINA vs. ANGOLA Vittel, FRA: CHILE vs. COTE D'IVOIRE Tunis, TUN: LIBYA vs. URUGUAY Tunis, TUN: TUNISIA vs. BELARUS Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Westfale 32 Report post Posted May 30, 2006 Chorzów, POL: POLAND 1-2 COLOMBIA An awesome goal http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJfW3hrzAz8 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
baron-pierreIV 1691 Report post Posted May 30, 2006 An awesome goal http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJfW3hrzAz8 And this was after Colombia just flew in from the US. Why do they make these final friendlies so tight, I mean schedule-wise? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Stu 33 Report post Posted May 31, 2006 ARGENTINA 2 - 0 ANGOLA Chile 1 - 1 IVORY COAST CZECH REPUBLIC 1 - 1 COSTA RICO ENGLAND 3 - 1 Hungary GERMANY 2 - 2 JAPAN Libya 1 - 2 Uruguay POLAND 1 - 2 Colombia TUNISIA 3 - 0 Belarus (WORLD CUP TEAMS - Teams that didn't qualify) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dave199 57 Report post Posted May 31, 2006 Those simulations sucked!!! xDIn France 98, only two times of 50, France was predicted as the Champion. And in Korea Japan 2002, France was the favourite for the trophy. That's why I said I wouldn't take it seriously. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mikel 0 Report post Posted May 31, 2006 Madrid, ESP: MACEDONIA 2-1 SPAIN Spain didn't play this match... it was Ecuador Our next rival will be Egypt. PS. After the last matches I think the biggest teams to win the title are Germany, England and Argentina. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Stu 33 Report post Posted May 31, 2006 I think the results of these friendly matches should be taken with a pinch of salt - all the teams that have qualified for Germany will be experimenting by playing different players in different positions etc... so they are not really an accurate forecast of how well a team is playing or will play in Germany. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RAP 0 Report post Posted June 1, 2006 Well Australia is on track with a 1:0 result against the European Champions Greece in last nights friendly.Beware of Australia - I still predict we will draw or win against Brazil in the Group matches and then everyone will stand up and realise how "under-achieving" Australia has been for the last 32 years (or how difficult it was made for Australia to make the 32 teams with the crazy qualification process we have had to endure) And Espana will choke as they do in every World Cup! La Liga owes its world class to its foreign players, otherwise it would be on a par with the MLS! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rei 9 Report post Posted June 1, 2006 31/05/2006, Friendly Switzerland-Italy 1-1 the same result of the same friendly match just few days before the start of 1982 WC.. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Quintana 0 Report post Posted June 1, 2006 Toni as the new Rossi? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rei 9 Report post Posted June 1, 2006 Toni as the new Rossi? I'd say De Rossi as the new Rossi Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Aronious 37 Report post Posted June 2, 2006 42,000 have watched the German National team in their last PUBLIC training session before the Cup. What a turn out. Better hope they do well Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ñuto 2 Report post Posted June 2, 2006 And Espana will choke as they do in every World Cup!La Liga owes its world class to its foreign players, otherwise it would be on a par with the MLS! claro,claro,son mucho mejores las ligas de EEUU o Puerto Rico,no te jode,por eso dos equipos españoles han ganado la Champions League y la UEFA Cup este año... ¿porque tienes esa obsesión enfermiza con España? ¿un novio español te dejó tirada? superalo y vive con ello Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Faster 545 Report post Posted June 2, 2006 This has probably been talked about before, but who else finds the stadiums to be wanting? They are (except maybe Dortmund and Munich) not up to what Korea and Japan provided in 2002, and to some extent even what Portugal offered up in 2004. I found most of the stadiums to be lacking in interest, design and creativity. There is no interest, no symbolize, no interesting connections to their surroundings and no innovation for these stadiums on the whole. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Quintana 0 Report post Posted June 2, 2006 The stadiums in Neurenberg and Kaiserslautern look kind of crappy. The latter will be loved by fans for it steeps stands close to the pitch though. The other stadiums seem perfectly fine to me. Neurenberg = Nürnberg / Nuremberg Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mexico1968 0 Report post Posted June 2, 2006 World Cup is about football (soccer) not about the Stadiums, The Korea-Japan thing was a big challenge and will be a big challenge for everycoutnry who intends to host the tournament, INSTEAD of that, germany stadiums are more usefull thatn the korea ones..they all have activity before the cup, and they belong to professional high class clubs, your complain about the desing is that we want more challenge desings but its not ok. German stadiums are Ok. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rob. 2038 Report post Posted June 2, 2006 World Cup is about football (soccer) not about the Stadiums, The Korea-Japan thing was a big challenge and will be a big challenge for everycoutnry who intends to host the tournament, INSTEAD of that, germany stadiums are more usefull thatn the korea ones..they all have activity before the cup, and they belong to professional high class clubs, your complain about the desing is that we want more challenge desings but its not ok.German stadiums are Ok. I agree. It'd be the same in any established footballing nation. Many of England's stadiums don't have a wow factor that a whole set of new ones would. What they do have is history and, they are already here. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
arwebb 133 Report post Posted June 3, 2006 Exactly. I saw a piece the other day saying the stadium where Brazil beat England in the 2002 quarter-final is losing millions of pounds in public money every year. At least the stadia that Germany have built are going to be used after July 9th. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rei 9 Report post Posted June 3, 2006 Exactly. I saw a piece the other day saying the stadium where Brazil beat England in the 2002 quarter-final is losing millions of pounds in public money every year. At least the stadia that Germany have built are going to be used after July 9th. yeah, also considering that the german premier league is one of the greatest in Europe.. no comparison with korean league (if they have it) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rafa 43 Report post Posted June 3, 2006 at least germany wont be bashing down half their stadia after the world cup Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Stu 33 Report post Posted June 4, 2006 CZECH REPUBLIC 3 - 0 TRINIDAD & TOBAGO ENGLAND 6 - 0 Jamaica Luxembourg 0 - 3 PORTUGAL POLAND 1 - 0 CROATIA SPAIN 2 - 0 Egypt SWITZERLAND 4 - 1 China (WORLD CUP FINALISTS - Teams that didn't Qualify) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
arwebb 133 Report post Posted June 4, 2006 Not a test for England yesterday against an appalling Jamaican side. Sorry to say this, but they seem to have declined dramatically since 1998. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Quintana 0 Report post Posted June 4, 2006 The Netherlands - Australia ended in a disappointing 1-1 this afternoon. We didn't play well but still should have scored at least three goals. However, Schwarzer had a very good game and Australia capitalized one of their two chances. Brazil's superstars might have to watch out. Those Ozzies kick at everything that moves (excluding the ball that is), seemingly seriously injuring 3 of our players. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
micheal_warren 206 Report post Posted June 4, 2006 New Zealand lost to brazil 4-0, New Zealand lost to brazil 4-0, Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
