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| Weekend Predictions: World Cup Qualifying Posted: 05 Jun 2009 03:40 AM PDT
This weekend we’re previewing and predicting three World Cup Qualifiers: USA vs Honduras, Sweden vs Denmark, and Argentina vs Colombia. Read on for those predictions, and then leave your own in the comments. USA vs Honduras (Chicago, Saturday 6th June, 7:30pm) USA were apparently coasting through the hexagonal and all the way to South Africa 2010. Until they met Costa Rica on Wednesday night and were handed a 3-1 defeat/foobtalling lesson combo. Now it’s panic stations, with Michael Bradley suspended and chronic lack of decent full-backs Honduras are a team on the rise and beat Mexico 3-1 back in April, but will be missing David Suazo through injury. Prediction: Bob Bradley’s men to get back on track(ish) with a nervous 2-1 win. Onyewu to score off a set piece. USA vs Honduras betting odds via PaddyPower Sweden vs Denmark (Solna, Saturday 6th June, 8pm) Several reasons this is exciting. First, it’s the big Scandinavian derby. Second, Denmark are currently top of Group 1, while home team Sweden desperately need the points. Third, when these two met in Euro 2008 qualifying, a drunken Danish fan attacked the ref. Not saying that’s a good thing. And not saying it will happen again. But it’s an example of the type of wackiness that ensues when these two meet. Oh, and it’s also Zlatan Ibrahimovic vs the future Zlatan Ibrahimovic. At least in Nicklas Bendtner’s head it is anyway. Prediction: Home advantage is king. Sweden to win 1-0 with the real Zlatan on the scoresheet. Sweden vs Denmark betting odds via PaddyPower. p.s. We still need a new Sweden blogger. Argentina vs Colombia (Buenos Aires, Saturday 6th June, 6pm) Argentina will still be stinging from that 6-1 defeat vs Bolivia. But weird things happen at altitude, so it’s not quite the disaster it looks on paper. Still, it’s going to be interesting to see how successfully Diego Maradona’s men bounce back. (Also, is it weird that it now feels perfectly natural for El Diego to be ib charge of the albiceleste?) This game is even more important for Colombia, who need to make up three points on Uruguay to take 5th place (which gets you a playoff vs the 4th place CONCACAF team). Will be interesting to see what sort of state the pitch at El Monumental is in. There was a rock concert by Los Piojos (The Lice) there last weekend and a certain someone is not impressed.
What could the world’s most famous Boca fan possibly have against River? Prediction: The pitch will be fine and Argentina will win 3-1, with Leo Messi (who else?) amongst the goals. Argentina vs Colombia betting odds via PaddyPower Bonus Video: Fan footage of Los Pijos at El Monumental: Time to look back at last week’s predictions. I scored a very disprespectable zero. So let’s move on to some other people’s scores. Congratulations to: Gold Silver Bronze Special mention to Lilrashio for being the only one to predict Betis falling through the La Liga trapdoor (on the basis that Osasuna had two players from Iran). So, what are your predictions for this weekend? USA - Honduras        |
| Posted: 04 Jun 2009 03:10 PM PDT
From September 2009 to May 2010 the World Cup trophy will make like a world famous rock band and go on a fizzy drink sponsored 225 day world tour, covering 134,017 kilometers (83,274 miles) as it visits 86 countries. From the fizzy pop press release:
There’s a PDF file with an itinerary of the trophy’s tour. Basically it starts off in Cairo, Egypt on September 24th, 2009 before working its way around the African continent and down to Cape Town, South Africa by December 3rd, 2009. After a brief rest, the trophy arrives in Seoul, South Korea on January 17th, 2010 and works its way south and then east to South America, working north until Mexico and then east again to begin it’s European tour in Ireland. It keeps going east, though Russia, Kazakhstan, India and Japan and then Canada before ending a long journey in the USA on May 2nd (American city TBC, but the smart money’s on NYC, right?). Finally, the trophy gets back to South Africa on May 4th, where it will sit and wait for a team captain to lift it on July 11th, 2010 in Johannesburg. Here’s a map of the World Cup trophy tour. Click to enlarge, and then click again to make it so big your eyes hurt.   |
The big European leagues might have closed their doors for summer. But Weekend Predictions doesn’t quit so easily.
Want to get your hands on the World Cup trophy? Well, you can’t. Not unless you’re an international footballer anyway. And even then it’s an uphill battle. But you might be able to get your photo taken with it.
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| Six Things to Emerge From the 2009 FIFA Congress Posted: 03 Jun 2009 04:10 PM PDT
Here are six things that emerged from the 2009 FIFA Congress:
2. Age limits removed on players switching nationality. If you play for a senior national team, then you’re still tied to that national team. But now players don’t have to make a choice at the age of 21, which makes perfect sense to me. You don’t know what your future holds at 21. So, basically, if you’re Senegalese and French and you play for the French youth teams but then never get an international call up, you can still play for Senegal. 3. Host cities chosen for Brazil 2014 4. Sepp still loves Six Plus Five.
That second sentence is a bit scary, no? 5. But he hates fences. 6. No decision on Olympic football   |
The FIFA Congress met in the Bahamas (nice choice) today, and held a press conference afterwards. You can | You are subscribed to email updates from World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. | Email delivery powered by Google |
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| 2009 Confederations Cup - ESPN and BBC TV Schedules Posted: 02 Jun 2009 01:10 PM PDT
Here’s a quick reminder of how it all works: It’s an eight team tournament featuring the World Cup hosts, the World Cup holders and then the six confederation champions. Here’s what the groups look like. Group A: South Africa, Spain, Iraq, New Zealand Any tournament featuring Spain, Italy and Brazil is worth watching. That’s just a fact. USA fans will get to see their team face some serious opposition x 3, while underdog can go ahead and cheer for Iraq and New Zealand. The tournament runs from June 14th to June 28th, and if you’re US or UK based then you’ll have no trouble finding it on TV. Here are the schedules:
2009 Confederations Cup, ESPN TV schedule for US viewers.
GROUP STAGE: Sunday, June 14th Monday, June 15th Wednesday, June 17th Thursday, June 18th Saturday, June 20th Sunday, June 21st SEMIFINALS Wednesday, June 24th Thursday, June 25th THIRD PLACE PLAYOFF Sunday, June 28th FINAL Sunday, June 28th [Source: SportsMediaNews] 2009 Confederations Cup, BBC TV schedule for UK viewers
Programming for 3pm kickoff game starts at 2:50pm, programming for 7:30pm kickoffs starts at 7pm. Gabby Logan will be presenting, commentary will be from Jonathan Pearce, Guy Mowbray and Steve Wilson with co-commentary from Mark Bright and Martin Keown. Yep, that Martin Keown. Every game will also be broadcast on the BBC website (available to UK residents only). GROUP STAGE: Sunday, June 14th Monday, June 15th Wednesday, June 17th Thursday, June 18th Saturday, June 20th Sunday, June 21st SEMIFINALS Wednesday, June 24th Thursday, June 25th THIRD PLACE PLAYOFF Sunday, June 28th FINAL Sunday, June 28th [Source: BBC Press Release] And there you have it. Nice to see this accessible on both sides of the Atlantic. US viewers will get an idea of how ESPN plans to cover WC2010. Outside of the US and UK, this document should tell you which broadcaster has the rights in your country (it’s 17 pages long, but divided by continent and in alphabetical order). Also, if anyone has links to full TV schedules from any other countries, please share in the comments.   |
ESPN are showing every game live. Except for the Iraq vs New Zealand group game, which we can forgive them for. Games will be shown across ESPN, ESPN2 and 
The BBC are showing every game, but you’re going to need digital TV to see them. Games are spread across BBC Three, and BBC Red Button (ie you click the red interactive button and there it is). All time BST.| You are subscribed to email updates from World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. | Email delivery powered by Google |
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