London World Cup 2006
The world’s greatest sporting event is in Germany in 2006. Catch all the action over at World Cup Blog.
World Cup Draw
The draw for the 2006 World Cup starts in just under an hour in Leipzig, Germany. Probably going to be millions around the world tuning into this ceremony to find out who their team will play and its always interesting when teams from different continents get matched against each other.
Let’s see who Heidi Klum and friends pick out.
20.45.. will some at the BBC shove a boot in John Motson’s mouth, he won’t stop talking over the FIFA presenter who’s speaking english.
20.47.. .Australia in Brazil’s group.. tough one
20.50.. England have Paraguay and Sweden so far
20.51.. Argentina in with Holland..what a game …
Date: December 9th, 2005 |
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Who’s going?
The final shakeout of teams who are going to the World Cup next June should almost be done this week. After last night’s qualifiers 24 countries have made it through, probably the only big name from Europe not to have guaranteed a place yet is France.
I’m really surprised at some of the African countries who haven’t made it. Nigeria, Cameroon, South Africa, Senegal, you would have said the first three were bankers to go to Germany.
Got to feel sorry for Australia, every World Cup qualifying they win the Oceania group easily and than have to play a playoff against …
Date: October 9th, 2005 |
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Ready for the draw
FIFA have announced the seeded teams for the World Cup draw on Friday night and the pools that the other teams will be drawn from.
FIFA have used results at the last two World Cups and the last three years world rankings to come up with the seeds, England somehow came out as seed 2 and are ranked #9 in the world currently. The Czech Republic, Holland and the US are world ranked 2, 3 and 8 at the moment but none are seeded.
FIFA have said ‘economic and geographical’ reasons can be taken into account in the draw and I’m sure …
Date: December 6th, 2005 |
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