why is it so hard to win a world cup championship?
414867
it takes not only skill, but organization and heart, as well. in football, spirit is more valuable than in any other sport. that's why a world cup is so revered. Isn't it a beautiful game? You need all three. If your skill and tactics lag behind your energy, you will fail. You need all three.
931840
Future is looking good and bright. The team has reched its lowest that it can not go any further down from here. Hence, it can look forward to a better performance from here on. If you remember even prior to start of  the last world cup, we were at the lowest and in our first few matches against low placed teams like Holland we won with difficulty, but after that we reached the finals and lost.\n\nHence, its good that we have not peaked at the wrong time, but we should now start gethering momentum to peak at world cup. Hopefully, by that time we will have few changes in our team for better.
1055720
The Cup starts with 32 teams - \n\nFirst round is 8 groups of 4\n\nThen the top 2 teams from each group advance to leave 16 teams.\n\nThen it's single game elimination 16 down to 8 down to 4 down to 2.\n\nSo after the first round you have to win 3 games to win the world cup.
1109674
I think the world would give us more respect. I still think it would be very difficult to win the World Cup. Remember, we would be playing against the rest of the world.
1158856
It is like people and weather in that country. Individualism dominates that culture and it reflect to the society and the soccer style.\nNo way, they never will win a world cup
445868
The Europeans tend to do well when its hosted in Europe. The last 5 world cups hosted in Europe have been won by a European team. Talent wise, there are a lot of very talented teams. I would look for England and Holland to make a good run at it. The French don't seem very interested. The Italians may not have that one player that they need to score goals (in the mold of a Baggio or Rossi), but as usual they will have a tight defense. The Spaniards need leadership (which they do not have) to get through the tough mental pressures. Germany get results simply because they always get results when it counts. Ofcourse we cannot discount Brazil and Argentina as they have a metric ton of players who play regularly in Europe. Brazil unquestionably has more talent than all the teams. Always remember that the most talent doesn't win, the best team (who has a little luck) wins.
1019505
There is a lot of pressure on the big teams to do well. Germany have been OK, England were happy to secure victory, Holland and Argentina are superb, Italy and France were disappointing, the USA aren't a 'good team' and Brazil were tested against Croatia but found natural form against the Socceroos. They have a way about them that means even when they are not playing well, or they have orgainsed opponents, they will always produce something special.\n\nSpain did well.
645269
pre-world cup performance does not guarantee a world cup win. we can take the example of 2002 Japan Korea world cup, where Brazil struggled to qualify to become one of 32 nations to play the tournament, and then won the world cup for fifth time ! France and Argentina were the top favorites to win the cup, but they were eliminated in the first round. and what South Korea did? they played in the semi-final!\n\nwell, temperament will be the name of the game as soon as the world cup begins. tradition will come second. for such reasons, only 5 countries lifted the world cup for 15 times out of 17 tournaments followed by 2 countries won one time each.\n\nin my opinion, top contenders of this Germany 2006 are Brazil, Argentina, Germany and Italy. Holland could be the dark horse of the tournament. However, if Wayne Rooney becomes match fit to play, England should be considered as a top contender too.
990066
In my opinion, Brazil will take the title of the World Cup for the sixth time. The next five strong teams to win the cup as dark horses could be Argentina, Germany, Portugal, Spain or even Italy for that matter. But, as of now its best to hold your breath and just watch the action because you never know the end.
1167274
Awww.\nThat sucks.\nSo that means that you have absolutely no way of getting the world cup, where you are?\nI'm sure there is something you can do.
379966
I are thinking about what team will champion. I are thinking hard and long about it. I wake up late at night and am in sweaty heat over team champion!?./// How many times do I have to say that it is one thing to be foreign and another to not even try! \n\nAnd in responce to your question BIT Worldcup, yes, Brazil is quite sour!
992272
I hope you're not trying to make this into a race issue, because it would be terribly lame.\n\nSoccer has been the most dominant sport amongst European countries for a very long time. By comparison, African countries have been producing World Cup teams only recently. \n\nIf the team is good enough, they will qualify. Take the US, for example, they are supposedly the "leader of the free world", but their team only recently began qualifying for the World Cup (and hasn't as of yet made it very far).
322055
Host countries are always favourite to win the event.In the past host countries have lifted the cup 6 times out of 17 world cup editions.Hence Germany have their best chance of lifting the trophy on home soil.
986866
even though many of us want our favourite nations to win.\nI think the team that plays the best football, and cheats (dives etc) the least should win the world cup, but thats not how it works nowadays and brazil are the favourites this year aswell, just like last year and the year before.
407761
On paper it is Brazil but this world cup should be the toughest. Firstly only Brazil have won the world cup 1958 in Sweden but that was when players played club soccer in their countries, now most of the players for most countries play in Europe.Secondly you dont have weak teams anymore, so I would not be surprised in Ivory Coast got to the final
684731
Germany have a legendary status of being late sluggish starters but peaking at the right time in World Cups.They have reached 7 world cup finals and won 3 of them.They have been the dominant european force alongwith Italy for decades proving their consistency.They did well to stage a fightback yesterday and could have even won it in the end.It is too early to make predictions but Germany at home will always be a handful.
1002557
They are not likely to win the World Cup, but they have a strong team. They did very well in the Africa Cup and have a lot of strong players from European leagues. On the other hand they are in a tough group with Argentina, The Netherlands and Serbia/Montenegro. To get through they probably have to beat at least one of those three and draw with another one.