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This Friday December 9, 2005 saw football lovers round the worldclinging to the edge of their seats, ready and waiting todetermine who they would play in the group stages of the WorldCup 2006 in Germany. The ceremonial occasion contained all theanticipated fanfare and hoopla that a soccer fan would normallylink with modern sporting events. In other words, the smittensports buff was subjected to hours of mindless slobber whenawaiting for the unparalleled action to start out. Whosoeverputs these events together just can't perchance believe that thefootball fans who have tuned in to see such an event can be inany way smitten in the flaky magic exhibits and dance troopsthey force out. One can only believe that heavy numbers of hardcash in brown envelopes that changes hands in order to generatesome feeble performers their luck to be on worldwide television.The experience was produced slenderly supplementary endurablewith a handsome blonde in a revealing dress co-hosting theprogram.

When the standoff did at last came it was dragged out, with ahorde of footballing celebrities taking balls to pick out theteams. Again, a soccer fan has to accept that the presenters andcelebrities were being paid off by the second as they struggledto make this non-event into a television spectacular. Thisshould have taken no further than fifteen minutes to carrythrough, but no, soccer reporting went on for a undivided threehours! Because this is an indication of affairs to hail it is noquestion that the tourney will take an entire calendar month tofinish.

When the dust settled on the over padded proceedings in Leipzig,England came out of it rather well. Notwithstanding havingtraditional rivals for Sven's loyalty, Sweden, in the group,Paraguay and Trinidad & Tobago are surely there just to makethings fair. With the top two from every group coming along tothe second round, England are favorites to proceed into thisphase with out too much trouble. Depending on the setting inboth England's group (B) and the Germany / Poland group (A) thesubstitutions perchance set up an early crunch match with thehosts. Even so this would bank on either Germany or Englandneglecting to win their various groups and an England vs. Polandsecond round match is tremendously additional probable.Providing this potential banana skin can be negotiated, theusual is that England will crash out on penalties in the quarterfinals to either Holland or Argentina. All England buffs,notwithstanding the optimism that usually rings the ballyhoo toa world cup, hold a sensation of the inevitable heroical defeatin the latter stages of the tourney. The common comments havebeen made up by the various directors, with Sven contributing inhis normal unrestrained flair.

Perhaps the most intriguing groups are C, where Holland andArgentina are drawn jointly, and E, where Italy takes on USA,Czech Republic and Ghana. Normally ho-hum starters to tourneys,and having broke down to go on from the group stages last timearound, Italy stand a tough task onwards. Having been drawn withthe very much improving USA and a Czech side who are beginningto indicate signals of the retuning glory days with an mythicalperformance in the last Euro Championships, Italy may be thecompetitors first large casualty, with Ghana being verytremendously an unsung entity. Group C caters to an early clashof the prominent boys, where the Dutch face are good deal betterthan their ungraded position suggests, but both Holland andArgentina need be firm enough to overcome Ivory Coast and Serbia& Montenegro to win to the second round. The only question intruth is of who may top the group and in theory cast the easiersecond round match.

Historically it has been very rocky for a South American squadto win a world cup in Europe and at first site Brazils rankingas clear front-runners might seem a little generous.Notwithstanding, the game is not the equal as it has been in theyesteryear and several of the Brazilian team already frolic intop European sides in England, Spain and Italy. Theiradaptation has been years in the forming and the European mannerof soccer fused with the traditional Brazilian genius and talentmay be mouthwatering to observe. It might take a very expertface to take away their pennant from them and in Ronaldhino theyhave a player who can bend any play off on his own.

Perhaps the most fun facet of any world cup is catching the darkhorses, those minnows from commonwealths not affiliated withfootballing grandness, progress and bowl over some of thebrighter lights. This time around, there are reasonableaspersions of African commonwealths in the blend and somesurprises could come from there. It may be worth looking out forthe likes of Ivory Coast and Ghana when determining where to setthat venturesome high odds wager at the loan shark. South Korea,Maybe the surprise bundle of the previous world cup in Japan areunlikely to be capable to replicate their heroics and will notbe undervalued a second instance

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About the author:This Friday December 9, 2005 saw football lovers round the worldclinging to the edge of their seats, ready and waiting todetermine who they would play in the group stages of the WorldCup 2006 in Germany.