This is the World Cup thread.
Germany won the first game against Costa Rica.
Who is your favorite team?
Can anyone beat Brazil?
Discuss here.
I usally don’t watch much soccer but I watched like 30 or 40 minutes of this game. It was pretty good. Ummm, I guess thats about it.
KH.
Millions of years of evolution to develop opposable thumbs and the world’s most popular sport doesn’t allow you to use them? I can’t believe people still watch groups of people kicking an effigy of the head of the enemy around a field. Oh, well, they watched Star Wars and thought it was great, too. And they continue to use emoticons and believe that they are expressive.
Two players on the pitch can use them, unfortunately noone seems to have told Jens Lehmann that!
I just watched most of the Germany game, it was a hell of a start to the tournament. Would have been better if Germany had lost but you can’t have everything, especially as Costa Rica were so rubbish.
Another game kicks off in the next half hour-woo!
And thay have built space shuttles, air planes and cars and still many choose to ride a human powered one-wheel vehicle…Humans are nuts…
The soccerroos (Australian footbal team), have qualified for germany! (the first time in 32 years). If we get knocked out in the first rounds (in the same group as Brazil, Croatia and Japan) i pledge my supporter allegance to Togo for the entire competition.
Mark
Sorry Mark, but I can’t help thinking you’ll be supporting nobody after the group stage in this case… I’d suggest choosing a substitute team after the group stages have finished!
Now, how do I attach one of those England car flags to my uni…
That’s what makes them special…and edible.
AUSTRALIA ARE THE UNLIKELY FAVOURITE TO BEAT BRAZIL HAHAHA SUCKED IN EVERYONE ELSE ( cept you harper )
Go The Socceroos
Sorry, but that’s funny…You guys won the Ashes…You have to wait atleast 20 more years to win another major cup…That’s the Pom rule…
This is the year we’ll break that rule!!
Do I really believe England’ll win the Cup?
I want to, I really do.
COME ON ENGLAND!
Yesterday evening (after the game :)) I wanted to go unicycling at my usual place, but there are some bars nearby and it was still too crowded. So the worldcup is definetly interfering with my unicycling 
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On a side note: In the weeks before the FIFA really lost all credibility. All those rules regarding advertisement and the official sponsors are really over the top. Fortunately now the focus is on the sport again.
Go ENGLAND!
This is my first year really watching soccer at all, and i’ve caught all five games for about 80minutes of them on average. (Thanks to Kyla H.) Love the sport, really excited to see brazil play, heard a lot about them. Gonna be a good next four weeks. Laters
-Shaun Johanneson
p.s. First time watching David Beckham play, and I heard he’s really good at freekicks, and invented the curve on the ball, well what was the first thing he did in today’s game? I wasn’t disappointed. haha
(edit) - I forgot i’m under my girlfriend’s (Kyla Hammer) computer name, since i’m on her computer. muhaha
Wild congrats to Trinidad & Tobago for their 0-0 match against powerhouse Sweden. I enjoyed the entire game immensely.
And thanks to T&T from us anglos for putting some pressure on Sweden after our somewhat less than thrilling 1:0 win over Paraguay.
I was disappointed that The Ivory Coast couldn’t turn over Argentina though. It almost looked like they were going to before the first goal went in.
hahahaha GB only won vs Poland because of a stupid ?self goal? (is that what its called in english?)
anyway, GB suchs hahaha:) 
(at least in soccer)
i think brazil already won this cup
heheh
gogogo brazil!
go for the hexachampion
Australia’s game just ended, and wow. Australia is amazing at the end. hahaha. wow. 3-1. crazy. Good ending for austalia’s fans. muhaha. laters. (I’m not over all that fan, but in this game I was)
-Shaun Johanneson
That line made me smile. And doubt;
if going to the moon was as easy as going to the supermarket by unicycle,
then I guess I would be juggling a lot up there (while having less gravity).