FIFA World Cup Football 2014 Discussion Thread

[quote=Vaan99]Croatia is playing opening game vs Brazil. This day is crazy, everyone is super hyped, my whole city (Zagreb- capital) has Croatian flags on every building, car and bus, wherever I look, I see white and red squares. That being said, I hope Croatian team will play good vs Brazil, I don't know if they can win (i don't watch football too much), but I hope they will give everything they've got in game. Theoretically, Brazil and Croatia should pass groups, I just hope we don't screw up vs mexico and Cameroon.[/quote]

[quote=GrandmasterD][quote=Meiyjhe] I think the Netherlands will win cuz nationalism! Woohoo! [/quote] You are not a real Dutchmen. Here is how the Dutchies do it: [list=1] [*] Everyone states [i]"Tem sucks."[/i], [i]"Coach sucks."[/i], or "No way we can win.". Or any combination of the aforementioned statements. [*] We made it anyway; country will be like [i]"GG EZ"[/i], [i]"We are already World Champion."[/i], or [i]"Already camping in Amsterdam so I can see tem with the cup."[/i]. Or, again, any combination. [*] We lose, and the statements will be like [i]"We could've never won ever"[/i] and [i]"Tem sucks"[/i]. [/list] tl;dr We hate our country except when we're winning with football.[/quote]

[quote=Wayne3100][quote=Vaan99] Theoretically, Brazil and Croatia should pass groups, I just hope we don't screw up vs mexico and Cameroon. [/quote] Ooooh, that's actually a pretty interesting group when it comes to who'll place second (assuming Brazil doesn't fuck up). I agree, Croatia's probably the strongest of the three, but Mexico's not much weaker. Also, keep in mind they actually beat Brazil to win the Olympic gold medal in 2012. I'm pretty sure Brazil will be looking for revenge this time around :P[/quote]

[quote=Vynertje][quote=Wayne3100] [quote=Vaan99] Theoretically, Brazil and Croatia should pass groups, I just hope we don't screw up vs mexico and Cameroon. [/quote] Ooooh, that's actually a pretty interesting group when it comes to who'll place second (assuming Brazil doesn't fuck up). I agree, Croatia's probably the strongest of the three, but Mexico's not much weaker. Also, keep in mind they actually beat Brazil to win the Olympic gold medal in 2012. I'm pretty sure Brazil will be looking for revenge this time around :P [/quote] Don't forget that the Olympic football is only for Under-21 teams.[/quote]

[quote=Wayne3100]23* [h5]Also every country was allowed to use 3 players above the age of 23[/h5] But yeah, I get what you're saying. Brazil wasn't at full strength. However, that kinda goes for all teams and Brazil was still the clear-cut favourite.[/quote]

[quote=TROLLing1999]btw who do you think will be awarded as best player of the competition? top scorer?[/quote]

[quote=IPodPulse]Portuguese background here, just wanna inform everyone that I hate Ronaldo to an extreme and I will tell you now that Portugal is not going to at least get to quarter finals, currently RonalDONT is injured and like you may already guesses Team Portugal is shit without him considering their coach, Paulo Bento loves Ronaldo to a passion that they practically run the formation of 9-1. So dont expect much from Portugal because aside from RonalDONT Portugal is a really bad team. Right now im cheering for Germany and Brazil. I feel they are the strongest. My current predictions of the two teams in each group to enter quarters are Group A- Brazil Cameroon Group B- Spain Netherlands Group C- Greece Ivory Coast Group D- Uruguay Italy Group E- France Switzerland Group F- Argentina Nigeria Group G- Germany USA Group H- Belgium Russia [quote=Vynertje] [quote=mastrer1000] It should be pretty hard not to get out of group stage. The german group looks pretty easy(like every year lol) [/quote] Wasn't last Euro Cup like Germany, Holland, Portugal and Denmark? That was quite a tough group. [/quote] Yea Portugal and Germany are like soul mates when it comes to groupings[/quote]

[quote=TROLLing1999][quote=IPodPulse] Portuguese background here, just wanna inform everyone that I hate Ronaldo to an extreme and I will tell you now that Portugal is not going to at least get to quarter finals, currently RonalDONT is injured and like you may already guesses Team Portugal is shit without him considering their coach, Paulo Bento loves Ronaldo to a passion that they practically run the formation of 9-1. So dont expect much from Portugal because aside from RonalDONT Portugal is a really bad team. Right now im cheering for Germany and Brazil. I feel they are the strongest. My current predictions of the two teams in each group to enter quarters are Group A- Brazil Cameroon Group B- Spain Netherlands Group C- Greece Ivory Coast Group D- England Italy Group E- France Switzerland Group F- Argentina Nigeria Group G- Germany USA Group H- Belgium Russia Yea Portugal and Germany are like soul mates when it comes to groupings [/quote] Some of your choices are really questionable at least to me :). For instance you can't just forget about Uruguay in Group C. And regarding group D, I am definately not sure. As a Greek guys I can assure you that our national team has nothing special except for defense, whereas Colombia, Japan and Ivory Coast have some very talented players.[/quote]

[quote=Lady Amelyne]I suppose I will never understand all the hype behind this, but to each his own, I guess.[/quote]

[quote=IPodPulse][quote=TROLLing1999] [quote=IPodPulse] Portuguese background here, just wanna inform everyone that I hate Ronaldo to an extreme and I will tell you now that Portugal is not going to at least get to quarter finals, currently RonalDONT is injured and like you may already guesses Team Portugal is shit without him considering their coach, Paulo Bento loves Ronaldo to a passion that they practically run the formation of 9-1. So dont expect much from Portugal because aside from RonalDONT Portugal is a really bad team. Right now im cheering for Germany and Brazil. I feel they are the strongest. My current predictions of the two teams in each group to enter quarters are Group A- Brazil Cameroon Group B- Spain Netherlands Group C- Greece Ivory Coast Group D- England Italy Group E- France Switzerland Group F- Argentina Nigeria Group G- Germany USA Group H- Belgium Russia Yea Portugal and Germany are like soul mates when it comes to groupings [/quote] Some of your choices are really questionable at least to me :). For instance you can't just forget about Uruguay in Group C. And regarding group D, I am definately not sure. As a Greek guys I can assure you that our national team has nothing special except for defense, whereas Colombia, Japan and Ivory Coast have some very talented players. [/quote] In regards to group C I will change that from England to Uruguay, i can't believe i missed them. Also for group D i think greece will do pretty good, I like the idea of a defensive team, spain would play defensive for their games but whenever they an opportunity they would attack. After all they won the euro and past world cup[/quote]