Will be an interesting tournament, with France and Germany being favourites in my opinion. France has a slight edge due to their offensive power and speed, but never count out Germany when it comes to tournaments and decisive games. That said, it sucks to see some of the historical teams like Holland, Italy and Holland not participating, matches vs them always delivered.
Not sure who I'm going to pull for, yet. I've always been drawn to England and would like to see them have a successful tournament. Iceland and Peru make for interesting stories but not teams that will contend. I'm not the type of person that pulls for teams just because of their geographical proximity to where I live. I wouldn't pull for the rangers if they were in the World Series and I won't pull for any CONCACAF team in the Cup. Well...if Panama somehow made it to the Final...fine. I would cheer for that. I would agree that France and Germany are the favorites, with Brazil, Argentina, Belgium, and a few others not terribly far behind. Without a dog in the fight, I'm just hoping for a good tournament. My enthusiasm is down on it right now w/o the USMNT but that will change as it gets closer. It's the first one w/o the US I will have watched. I was only 11 in 1986 and wasn't that into watching then. I'll be watching every match, though.
I'm Korean. Their team is garbage, although they have looked better recently beating Colombia in a friendly. Weird stuff always happen in the World Cup so who knows?
rooting for croatia this year. hope brazil gets knocked the **** out. i hate their entitled superstars.
So before @daywalker02 completely floods the thread with random pics and videos, here are some facts... FIFA WORLD CUP RUSSIA 2018 June 14th - July 15th Venues: Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Kaliningrad, Kazan, Nizhny Novgorod, Samara, Volgograd, Saransk, Rostov, Sochi, Yekaterinburg Defending Champions: Germany Draw: December 1st Pot 1 Russia (hosts) Germany Brazil Portugal Argentina Belgium Poland France Pot 2 Spain Peru Switzerland England Colombia Mexico Uruguay Croatia Pot 3 Denmark Iceland Costa Rica Sweden Tunisia Egypt Senegal Iran Pot 4 Serbia Nigeria Australia Japan Morocco Panama South Korea Saudi Arabia --- So the most interesting question in December will be, which team from Pot 1 faces Spain. Any preferences/wishes for the Group stage? Want Russia out asap, England to advance and lose in penalties and Germany to avoid Croatia and Serbia (always **** up against them on bigger stages).
Not that it matters but you German brehs usually dominate these threads so let's just make it more colorful with pics, gifs. And the German teams never fail except the ones led by Berti Vogts and Ribbeck.
Title Match Germany Vs England. England with a Wembley goal that gets called off by the video ref, then proceed to lose in the penalty shootout.
Draw simulators the OG one - http://ultra.zone/2018-FIFA-World-Cup-Group-Stage-Draws telegraph - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/russia-2018-world-cup-draw-simulator/ guardian - https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...ate-your-own-draw-for-russia-2018-interactive Let's go Iceland. Let's go Peru
The only rooting interest I will have in a game involving mexico will be for the team they're playing. They are the utah jazz/rangers/titans/cowboys of my most disliked teams...and they might be on the top of that list. Already had a hatred for the team going into this WCQ cycle...and then they laid down to Panama like a bunch of little b****es.
I think you meant Honduras instead of Panama but laid down is major fake news. Mexico were up twice in that game. The 2nd Honduran was a bizarre Ochoa own goal that actually temporarily injured him. It hit the crossbar and bounced back into the back of Ochoa's skull and bounced into the back of the net. Ochoa never even saw the double rebound. Honduras' winning goal was a massive offside call that was NOT called. Blatantly offside and if VAR was used it would have nullified. Even after all of that nonsense... Guardado damn near tied in injury time with a shot off the post. How you can call that laying down is beyond me. The only laying down was done by your boys down in TyT. Actually laying down isn't even right, they didn't show up. If if makes you happy, Australia beat the **** out of those cheating, diving, dirty Hondurans and they'll be watching just like USA. You can do it, http://www.goal.com/en-us/news/russ...oting-for-mexico-at/dmtoflqqy0me1jn66m0l7ycxm
Oh...don't get me wrong...should've never come to a situation where we needed help. No excuse for that at all. I do not like the mexican team or players. Never have and never will. Has nothing to do with anything other than I think they, too, are a bunch of dirty, whining, flopping, entitled little punks. That f*** marquez is on the level of Karla Malone to me.