who else thinks a european country is taking this year's world cup?
459537
i think that the European teams like Netherlands, England, or even France are the favorite teams in Europe to take the championship..\nof course Brazil and Argentina will be tough adversaries.
150036
well it's a hard question because there are really good teams this cup like Argentina,Netherland,Germany (the host), italy, england etc... (dont think i forgot brazil cause i didn't although they are 5* winners but not this time) this cup is european and mostly France,Italy or the host Germany. but i'm with France.....
1084678
They've had another poor world cup campaign, considering they have a great team on paper. If they do somehow get past the knock-out stages, I don't see them getting much further
1128875
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.
1015178
Who's gonna win the world cup?
329150
I hate to admit it. But Brazil is going to take home the cup again. \nWhen I look at there team I just laugh at how good they are.\n\nRonaldinho him self is just sick. I can sit and watch him play with the ball all day.\n\nI just finished reading an article that Pele says "Ronaldinho better then Maradona"\n\nShould I say more\n\nor the Italians will take it...(that's my team) \n\ni say Rooney will take the Golden boot, unless england plays like crap
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).
388362
i think it would be HOLLAND or ENGLAND to win the world cup this time around.They have waited this long and i do think they have a great team of both experienced players and a mix of young and full of energy players to snatch this cup from the early favorites such as BRAZIL,GERMANY,ITALY,ARGENTINA,FRANCE.
302051
Not necessarily. In the World Cup, the only teams who will be thinking about that will be the actual contenders like Brazil, Germany, and England, but all other teams will most likely go on attack quite frequently because they really don't have much to loose. Think of a country like Holland: They have great striking power (Van Nistelrooy) and have almost no chance of actually winning. So, why should they not give it everything they have and just try to not make mistakes, rather than not make mistakes and just try to not lose.
675228
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
1007503
Don´t listen to the other people, it´s definitely NOT just you!!!  I was really hoping for Spain to go far this year.  They can do it, I just think they never have the confidence to get past the knockout round.  They haven´t before, I think, so they seem to think that they never will.  They had a good team this year, it just fell apart for the game with France.  I think that 2010 might be their year, though, because all the younger and more optimistic players will be entering their prime right about then!
402257
I hate to admit it. But Brazil is going to take home the cup again. \nWhen I look at there team I just laugh at how good they are.\n\nRonaldinho him self is just sick. I can sit and watch him play with the ball all day.\n\nI just finished reading an article that Pele says "Ronaldinho better then Maradona"\n\nShould I say more\n\nor the Italians will take it...(that's my team) lol
532966
Brazil has a good chance but also Germany has a good chance so it's going to be an interesting world cup.
367897
I think that they are going to surprise the whole world, particularly Ivory Coast, but yea, I would like to see teams like Ghanna beat the USA, Italy, and Czech, same with Angola, it would be so nice if they could beat Portugal since they have a history, Portugal are in the same position as France was in 2002, France played Senegal, they shared a lot of history too...
752931
i think its about coming 1 and half year and its hard to expect who will win\nbecause may in this time a new player appear that may help his team to win this champion\nbut i think italy or france are going to play in the final
1141397
France can play really well when they have too and this year it seems Brazil are only human and not crazy soccer mutant freeks. I think it will be a good match.
418634
I grew up in France, but this is the year of the Germans. The cup is in Germany and the crowd is going to really boost their play.