The inerval the world cup takes to be played a gain.
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World Cups are played every 4 years.
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If we are considering the current world cup finalist, I dont see it happening. However, judging by the performance of African players in Europe and other parts of the world, it is likely that one of the countries would probably suprise the world soon. The exposure and experience is really helping develop african football. The major impediment however is the FA in the african countries. They either lack knowledge of what it takes to win a crucial competition or are too greedy and selfish/dont really care if their country perform well or not.
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Have fun, and don't overdo it.  You'll need your strength for later in the cup when they face off with some formidable teams.
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The World Cup is and will always be the biggest sporting event in the world. Every country in the world competes and dreams of being crowned the champions of the greatest sport in the history of sport. The best players in the world square off agaisnt team mates and friends, so it is not solely about the competition. It is about the entire world coming together to watch and participate in a common like. It is about passion and emotion even for those thousands of miles away. It is about nationalism, when a country becomes one in support for their team. To me, the world cup isnt even about the football (even though thats an amazing part of it) but its about the people who love the sport so much that the entire world unites together for a whole month and can forget about all their problems and instead focus on the  excitement and pure skill that is football.
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32 countries made up the final participants of the world cup from all the qualifying stages all over the world. These 32 countries (teams) is then divided into 8 group of four where they will play up the other teams in the group. Each win will give the team 3 points, the losing team gets no point. 1 point is given to a draw (where there is no winner at the end of the match). At the end of the first 3 games, the top two team will then play in the second round (round of 16) where the winners (8 teams) from this round will then proceed to the next round (quarter final). The winners will then play in the semi final (4 teams). The losing team from the semi final stage will play in the 3rd place playoff. The winner of the semi final stage will then play in the final match where the winner of this match will be crowned World Cup Winner.\n\nThe football match is played in two halves of 45 minutes each. At the end of each half, the fourth referee will decide how much injury time is added to the match. In the group stages, if there is no winner, the match will be deemed as a 'draw' where each point is given 1 point each. The winner will get 3 points. No point is given to the losing team.\n\nFrom the round of 16 onwards, every match should have a winner. If a match is tied at the end of the normal 90 minutes play time, and additional 30 minutes (2 halves of 15 minutes each) will then be added. If the match is still tied, then the match goes to penalty kick. Each team will take a penalty kick alternately and the team that scores more wins. At first, each team will be given 5 kicks, but should the score remains tied. each team will be given an additional kick until one team lost (by failing to score). No points is given to the winning team.
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no... it should change places ( i think the name WORLD CUP says it all)
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Of course. The world cup is the greatest sports stage in the world. The world cup is the world's best fighting for a gold trophy.\nPeople might say that olympic soccer is close but it is not seeing that no professionals can play. The world cup is the best.
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Usually teams negotiate the amount of money with their association before the tournament. \nThis has in the past caused a lot of frictions between trainer and team. E.g. in 1974, the German national coach was so upset about the demand from the German players that he wanted to throw them all out of the game and walk away. As we know from history, the situation could turned around and Germany went on winning the world cup.\nThis year, there were a few other teams where the discussion about the money caused major upset between teams and coaches about the amount. It's the same game before every event...
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Well Boot, it would be nice if you can give some decent tips for the final group games or the 2nd rd.\nI have been having a dreadful World Cup\n\nYou IM me with any of your tips.\n\nCheers.
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If they do, your countries achievement will not be unappreciated by the world. It takes a great country to produce players continually that can be of the calibre to pull that off. Good luck to you.\n\nHowever I would like to see the Ukraine or Portugal come through and achieve the unexpected as it would renew some hope for others and give a new perspective to the cup. Also to honour the job, commitment and hard work the under dog sides put in to achieve results and lift their standard of play.
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the  world cup is nothing like the world series, 32 teams from all over the globe have been through tough qualifying groups (5-10 teams in each) and have been playing these games for nearly 2 years to qualify for the tournament...these teams are now in 8 groups of 4 teams and will play each team in its group and the top 2 teams in each group go through to the next round ( knock-out stages) then the quarter finals, semi finals, and final this competition is only every 4 years, it all begins on the 9th of june and the smart money is on Brazil to win again, but Germany, Italy,England, argentina, Spain ,Holland or one of the African teams could do it...I hope you enjoy the tournament, it is the best competition in the world !!!
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Not this year. Brazil is an unstoppable power-house. They have the best team they've had in years- and that's saying a lot ! Germany may have a chance with home turf advantage, but I don't think its enough to pull through to a championship. I think this world cup is a start of a whole new dynasty of Brazilian domination.
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Yes, they will do everything in theirpower to meet regulations and even if they come up a little shy, an exception will be made due to the fact that the World Cup has never been played there before
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no they done have a chance to win the world cup.
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France, altought it has not too many expectative, it could be very competitive in this world cup.\nIt has very good players, and cause zidane is retiring from futbol (soccer) in this cup, maybe the team will give something extra when they play. \nFrance has been a lot of times in the world cup, they also won a cup in France 98, against Brazil in the final\n\nArgentina, has a very good team, there are a lot of good players, has a very competitive team. But, the big problem is that they are in the death group, and is very hard to say what will happen. \nAs an extra tip, Maradona, their biggest star from all times said that the people should not have too much expectatives about their team.\nAlso, Argentina have been in a lot of world cups, always arriving with lot nof expectatives, and has 2 world cups in his power.\n\nEcuador, we have to see. They have a very competitive team. Almost all the starting team have been playing together for about 8 years, so it will be interesting. \nIt has to play against Germany (it will be hard, but at the match time, Germany will probably be classified to the next round), Poland (the harder game) and Costa Rica (almost the same level, so its hard to say who will win) \nEcuador has classified for first time to Korea Japan 2002 world cup. In the world cup, it beated Croatia, and lost against Mexico and Italy
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yeah... must be more pressure and more panic causes them to win. they lose against the not-so-good teams because they probably are more self confident and don't try as hard as they would if the team were say, Brazil.
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It going to be a very tuff game....we'll just have to wait and see because after watching all the games in the world cup, i have com to a conclusion to expect the unexpected.  The obvious of who is going to win isnt always going to obvious in the modern game of football.  Therefore who will wait until the game has come into play.\n\nBy the way i'm from Ghana!...LOL