Which Country Will Win The World CUP (Soccer)

[BuDo]

The last world cup I got pissed when the Brazilian team (My team) didn't even make the finals. I was cheering them on like I do every world cup. I even made it in the local newspaper as one of their die hard fans. Who do you think will win this year?

[ZaKnighT]

hmm.. i hope its france xD or barzil

[CrimsonNuker]

I don't follow any other soccer games except for FIFA, but i'm gonna guess Argentina, Germany, Portugal, or Brazil lol

[TheDrop]

I think spain will, best team by a mile and have a good manager
Brazil have a good team too w/ kaka (he's always goos for brazil) and i hope ronaldinho is in the squad, he's been great this year
Netherlands have a great team, but they never get far
England have a good team and good manager but i think they'll go out in the QFs
Both France and Argentina have great teams but their managers are horrible.
Dont know about germany.

Would be great if either USA or Portugal knock out england

[cpinney]

USA obviously

[ZaKnighT]

USA obviously

maybe it proved its a really strong team

[xzaz]

Why did no one said the Dutch team?

[M3K0S]

mexico
if we win the first game against south africa we win the cup

[fckerr]

Spain will do it for sure

[Devilman]

Slovakia!!!! if not us, then Spain

[Buddhist]

I hope Netherlands or France.

[Mark.]

It's farking football, dammit!

I sorta found it strange that no one mentioned Italy, since we won last World Cup.
Kay, maybe we're sorta crap now, but our manager does know when and how to motivate teams.

It'll be quite interesting, also because of the weather, though.

[Lempi]

England.

lol.

[takolin]

Belgium?
Or did we fail to get selected again?

[Snazzi]

Australia ! If they even got in lmao. But meh, we might get to host the 2018 Commonwealth Games I think it is. Also in the city I live in. That wuudd bee sweeet !

[xzaz]

Belgium?
Or did we fail to get selected again?

You got Advocaat now, you should be ok in 4 years

[[SD]Master_Wong]

ITS CALLED FOOTBALL NOT SOCCER GOT IT? WHY AMERICANS EVEN CALLED THEIR GAME FOOTBALL IS BEYOND ME IT HARDLY HAS ANYTHING TO DO WITH FEET

[Buddhist]

ITS CALLED FOOTBALL NOT SOCCER GOT IT? WHY AMERICANS EVEN CALLED THEIR GAME FOOTBALL IS BEYOND ME IT HARDLY HAS ANYTHING TO DO WITH FEET

Caps enough?

[Ichimaru420]

England.

lol.

haha if we do they will be talking about it here for the next 300 years.

[HardRain]

ITS CALLED FOOTBALL NOT SOCCER GOT IT? WHY AMERICANS EVEN CALLED THEIR GAME FOOTBALL IS BEYOND ME IT HARDLY HAS ANYTHING TO DO WITH FEET

Ya, it should be called handegg (old joke)

[antics]

ITS CALLED FOOTBALL NOT SOCCER GOT IT? WHY AMERICANS EVEN CALLED THEIR GAME FOOTBALL IS BEYOND ME IT HARDLY HAS ANYTHING TO DO WITH FEET

haha ppl still get butthurt over this?
its just a name

and im going for brazil, usa(they actually have a good team), Argentina
and some more

[TheDrop]

ITS CALLED FOOTBALL NOT SOCCER GOT IT? WHY AMERICANS EVEN CALLED THEIR GAME FOOTBALL IS BEYOND ME IT HARDLY HAS ANYTHING TO DO WITH FEET

U mad?

[Mark.]

ITS CALLED FOOTBALL NOT SOCCER GOT IT? WHY AMERICANS EVEN CALLED THEIR GAME FOOTBALL IS BEYOND ME IT HARDLY HAS ANYTHING TO DO WITH FEET

U mad?

Nope, he's right.
We Europeans have got to stop this thing about arrogant Americans who apply their words everywhere, in whatever circumstance.
If football was originally called this way, why change it not to get confused with American football that almost no one plays in Europe?

You may say "Hey, but this is World Cup! It's an intercontinental thing!" And I'll remind you that football was created in Europe and that its most important organs, teams and staff are in Europe as well.

Also

Of the 45 national FIFA affiliates in which English is an official or primary language, 42 use "football" in their organizations official names (only Canada, Samoa and United States use "soccer"). "Soccer" is the prevailing term for association football in the U.S, Canada, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand where other codes of football are dominant, but the name "soccer" (or "soccer football") was originally a slang abbreviation of "association". The term used for association football is going through a period of transition in recent times. In 2005, Australia's association football governing body changed its name from "soccer" to "football" to align with the general international usage of the term. In 2007, New Zealand followed suit citing "the international game is called football".

Font: Wikipedia

Tell me why out of 45 teams we should use soccer to pleasure THREE countries only. It's like being governed by someone who has gotten (Yep, I used "gotten" instead of "got") not even 7% of the total preferences.

[TheDrop]

^lol

You do know "soccer" (the word) came from England?
Why should America change terminology from soccer to football when there's already a sport that is named football just so some guy on the interwebz can be happy?

and btw, dont give me the shit about why football (american) shouldnt be called football, by that logic, Spanish shouldnt call football "futbol" because "fut" and "bol" aren't even words in their language. shouldnt it be called "pie balon"?

Its just a word, why some europeans rage over, idk

[cpinney]

ITS CALLED FOOTBALL NOT SOCCER GOT IT? WHY AMERICANS EVEN CALLED THEIR GAME FOOTBALL IS BEYOND ME IT HARDLY HAS ANYTHING TO DO WITH FEET

[fckerr]

[cpinney]

[Mark.]

^lol

You do know "soccer" (the word) came from England?
Why should America change terminology from soccer to football when there's already a sport that is named football just so some guy on the interwebz can be happy?

and btw, dont give me the shit about why football (american) shouldnt be called football, by that logic, Spanish shouldnt call football "futbol" because "fut" and "bol" aren't even words in their language. shouldnt it be called "pie balon"?

Its just a word, why some europeans rage over, idk

I actually didn't know that "soccer" came from England, thank you for it as every new info is always welcome. But my point is not who invented it, but who uses it, which, out "of 45 FIFA affiliates in which English is an official or primary language" just 3 use "soccer". Therefore neither Spain (Futbol) nor Germany (Fussball) or whichever else non English-speaking country is included, though in that Wikipedia article they were mentioned. I'll quote what it said.

Generally around the world today the word "football" and direct translations as such (such as Spanish fútbol and German Fußball/Fussball) is in widespread use as the name for association football. In Francophone Quebec, where Canadian football is more popular, the sport of association football is known as soccer and the Canadian code as football.

See? Since they couldn't find a name for this game, they preferred a rough translation for their own language (we Italians did not need it ). Or did they, maybe, try to translate "soccer"?

Also, in my first quote, it says at the end "In 2007, New Zealand followed suit citing "the international game is called football"."


But I can't say you're utterly wrong either, about this 'specially

Its just a word, why some europeans rage over, idk

It is indeed true that we Europeans "rage" over this thing. In fact, as formerly mentioned, almost no one plays American football here(I do know, though, some peeps who do), which -as the name may suggest - is indeed popular in NA. We hence have no need for another word which, even though created in England is mostly used in NA, for the most popular game in Europe and we'd rather stick to the original name.

One more thing. World Cup is organised by FIFA which, in French, means Fédération Internationale de Football Association (International Federation of Football Association). Did they use the word "soccer"? No, thus meaning that "football" is still the official word for the game.

You Americans can see us as stubborn people as much as we can see you as arrogant (that even though "soccer" is an English word, it is mostly used in NA and not Europe and you still want us to use it in case we get confused between our football [the one with the spheric ball] and your football [the one with the egglike ball, which I know being different from rugby]). ^^

[antics]

"What's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet."

[BuDo]

Doesn't matter what you call it (Even though as a fan and player of the game myself I've viewed it as football)....I'm cheering on Brazil again...Hopefully they do good this year.

On a side note: I find it quite funny when people (Especially in the US continent doesn't believe that Soccer/Football is the WORLD's sport. Or most don't like the idea that it is.