what team is  favored to win the 2006 FIFA World Cup?Who are the contenders for the best teams and players?
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Brazil to win the World Cup.\n\nContenders to their throne would be England, Argentina, Germany, Italy, Holland and look to the Czech Republic to do well.\n\nBest players will include Ronaldinho(Bra), Beckham(Eng), Henry(Fra) and Nedved(Cze).
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I think that the main contenders for the title are Brazil, Germany and Argentina.\n\nPlayers are favoured to contend for the best player award include Ronaldinho (Brazil), Ballack (Germany), Rooney (England), Riquelme (Argentina) among others.
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I think that the team that wins the final game will win the 2006 FIFA World Cup.
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I really believe Brazil are the hand down favourites to win the World Cup due to the high calibre players they have in the line up.  In my opinion Ronaldinho is the best player in the game and he could lead this team all the way to the trophy by himself but he wont have to do it all alone as he has Ronaldo, Kaka, Adriano, Roberto Carlos and plenty more super stars.  If Brazil was allowed to field two teams in the World Cup I bet you they would both make it to the final.
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The best player at World Cup 2006
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I think that Brazil have to be the favourites to win the trophy as they have a team with an almost limitless of talent.\n\nHolland, England, Italy, Germany and Argentina are also strong contenders.
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If I had to pick a team out of this group to win, or at least go furthest, I'd pick Germany.  Here's how I rate all these teams' chances.\n\nGermany: Were runners up at last world cup in Korea/Japan.  Not as strong as legendary West (or unified) Germany teams of the past, but will benefit from being hosts.  Need more inspired performances from captain Michael Ballack.\n\nFrance: Another footballing power temporarily underperforming.  Not as dominant as the team from 1998 to 2000.  Zidane's influence is on the wane.  Henry and Trezeguet don't seem to reproduce club form on international stage.\n\nItaly: Have not actually watched Italy live for a while but somehow the same stars seem to be in the squad every time I check.  Euro 2004 and World Cup 2002 were a bit of a disappointment for them.  Seemingly no new young star around to energize.\n\nSpain: Best wishes to the Spanish supporters who have posted.  However, if any team needs to shake the tag of "perennial underachievers", it's them.  Raul, their talisman, is currently injured.  Morientes and Mendieta, among the stars of the 2002 campaign, are blowing hot and cold in England.  Torres to step up?\n\nEngland: Wayne Rooney should carry them pretty far but a part of me says they'll be up a goal in the second half of a knock-out stage match and the manager (Eriksson) will play his usual death-knell move and bring on Phil Neville, Owen Hargreaves, and Kieron Dyer (middling midfielders), leading to a reversal.\n\nUS: I believe they drew a tough group.  Then again, they upset Portugal at the last world cup.  Much depends on whether the core of talents like Donovan, Beasley and McBride can carry them again.
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Argentina is the most likely team, for now. Brazil is still not bad though they're a bit disappointing this time. Personally, I hope England will win, but this is quite unlikely for the time being.
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hopefully italy, only because i am a huge fan. They do have a good shot, but Brazil is usually the favorite. However they did poorly in their opening round game against Croatia. So who knows, but I will say either Italy or Brazil or Germany cuz they are home.
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I think that the team that wins the final game will win thr fifa 2006 football world cup.
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Brazil are the obvious favourites, and England losing Rooney hasn't helped their chances!  Spain always buckle under the pressure, USA have jumped to 4th in the World Rankings so they might have a chance and Australia have been impressive!  I would love for a rank outsider to win it, just like Greece did in Euro 2004.  But going with statistics I would say Brazil.
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Brazil.\n1) They have been #1 at FIFA ranking for years.\n2) All of the players are fit and nobody is injured\n3) The world best player "Ronaldinho"\n4) The world best and strongest combination : Ronaldinho, Ronaldo, Robinho, Kaka and Adriano\n5) The only team that have won five times in the history\n6) The only team that have qualified to the final stages since the world cup started
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Germany or Brazil. I think that Brazil will take it though. They are a tremendously built team that can win many many games with their talent.
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The team that wins the final game will win fifa world cup 2006.
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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. France and Argentina were the top contenders 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.only 5 countries lifted the world cup for 15 times out of 17 tournaments.  \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.
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In any game Brazil are the favorites to win. This is\ntrue against any opponent at any location of the world.\nBe that as it may, some teams can beat Brazil on a good\nday. These are: Czech Republic, Holland, England,\nArgentina, France, Spain, Mexico, USA, Portugal, and\nItaly.  Even Germany has a small chance, only because\nthey are playing at home.
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Brazil are the favourites and whenever Brazil are the favourites, they do utter dragon dung...\n\nSo, I figure that they're not gonna win. They're gonna come very very close though like in France '98 but they're not come gonna pull through and hoist the trophy this year. Maybe in South Africa when they don't have all the pressure to perform on their shoulders...\n\nI rather fancy Argentina to win or perhaps Germany (if they get their defense together)... I do not see England winning like many people want to believe (the only reason they beat Paraguay was because Paraguay scored an own goal)! Spain was great today but whenever they get an international audience, they seem to get stage fright.