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admittedly, i wont be seeing any football, it just doesn't interest me. I'll be drawing somewhere around alexanders platz, for my art project. But i'm sure i won't miss the atmosphere. To be honest, i hope holland will win, it's my "native" country after all, and the story behind the orange national colour is brilliant!
Yay! The colour orange is brilliant indeed. :D I'll be dressed in orange myself this friday, when we go up against Ivory coast! :) We'll show those elephants a thing or two! :)
What's this about Holland being your native country? I always thought you were danish.
"Native" True, let's just settle for my parents studdying in Holland at the time of my concetion, and the first three weeks of my life. born in Leiden. So, i've always had anaffinity for Holland. Same town as Rembrant is from too!
And, since i'm rather interested in art, i'm also majorly interested in Painter's like Vermeer, and naturally Rembrandt. I was going to go there this year, but it's been postponed.
I see, Dutch at heart ;) Leiden is an nice city :) Although I don't go there often, it's a bit out of the way for me
I am not surprised in the least that England played that poorly, the only people who I heard talking about england winning was their own players/coaches/ and the over the top English media (as well as a few of the stupid talking heads, but I mute them anyway).Quote:
Originally Posted by Boris239
The English team lacks any real creativity (with the exception of Joe Cole, but he is out on the left wing and is not going to create much from out there). Gerrard and Lampard are both good driving midfielders who are a threat to get on the scoresheet, but neither exactly have what you would term flair and creative influence. Also playing Lurch up front encourages the defence to try to play the long ball constantly, and that will not work at this level.
With regards to AImus and the ORANJE, I like hollands team, but I do worry about their centre backs. Having said that I see the winner of their group (between them and Argentina - my personal pick - Ivory Coast are done) getting through to the final to play against Brazil, who I was unimpressed by against Croatia who showed if you get after them you have a chance of sneaking a result.
It looks like Brazil at the moment, but I'm cheering for Italy. My team, Ireland, didn't qualify this year.
If only Croats will play Japan and Aussie like they did today...Boris, I agree about Ballack, but he also have complains about their defense. Will see Spain tomorrow, Ukraina is playing without Shevchenko, it's their big chance in that poor group. Who is your favorite???
As far as I know it's still possible that Shevchenko will play with Spain. Actually Ukraine has a very good team- I won't be surprised if they'll qualify from the first place in the group. Spain always sucks on major tournaments.
Germany is certainly one of the favorites. Two main reasons- a) they play at home b) they are germans
For me other contenders are Brazil, Argentine and Italy, although I'll cheer for Czech Republic and Netherlands. And probably a bit for Ukraine.
Yes, the centre defense is a bit of a problem, personally I prefer boularouz over Mathijsen, he's a better defender. But we have Van der Sar in the goal, and he is without a doubt one of the best keepers in the world today, and has been for years.Quote:
Originally Posted by kilted exile
I really liked Croatia vs. Brazil, an interesting match. Croatia played really well, but it was the individual class of Brazil that finally won the game for them. They didn't convince me either.
Germany is indeed always a contender, four years ago nobody thought they would get far, and they played the final. I don't think they'll get this far now, but they are always an outsider. Like Boris said, they are german. :)
Yes, that was not an inspired win by Brazil. They looked beatable. Let's see how Spain does today and we'll have a good look at all the contenders.
Spain 4 - Ukraine 0!!!
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It was a great match to watch, Ukraine was dissappointing, but really, Spain did play well. :) Although the penalty was a bit undeserved.
Unfortunately, I couldn't watch it (they refuse to put TV sets in the classes :mad:))
By the end of today, we will have watched all the teams at least once, right? Maybe we should close the poll before tomorrow's matches.
There was no penalty for sure. The fouth Spanish goal was awesome
I haven't seen the Spanish goals but Kaka's goal last night was the best so far, I thought.