Who will win the world cup?

[Saz]

[The Comrade]

none of what i said was wrong.

if it's so important for you to be considered the most knowledgeable person on soccer, you have my blessing.

[Saz]

[The Comrade]

says the person that made a typical overreaction out to be some grand strategy to get pepe red carded. do you want me to keep a journal of all the games i watch weekly and submit it to you so you can grade it? it's very important for me to meet your approval

do you call it futbol when you're at bars? i bet you do.

[Philly]

It doesn't matter which one of you is right. Team USA is going to make it through this round at least and probably through at least one the games after this round. This is big year for American viewership of the World Cup, and a deep run by the American team will convert countless Americans into life long World Cup watchers. The World Cup is rigged not only by the players tanking games, the referees tanking it, and also the entire world wide governing body known as fifa is as corrupt as they come.

[The Comrade]

i almost want to openly agree with you about fifa being corrupt just to see sazari argue the opposite.

but yeah it is a big year. last world cup saw a big jump in american viewership, partially thanks to team usa doing well. a similar performance will do great things for soccer in the US. and i think if qatar does manage to lose their 2022 bid, america getting the bid would be huge.

http://abcnews.go.com/Sports/wireStory/ ... s-24133855

[The Dude]

[Dobby]

Arguably that was the US tactic. Defend and counter. Classic underdog tactic, possession is irrelevant, Chelsea employ in the champions league against the big clubs all the time. Of course you were lucky getting the goal so early but klinsman will have set the team up to play counter attacking football. Ghana had all the possession but did nothing with it. Boateng needed to start, horrible managerial decision

You're not wrong that altidore is going to be a big miss, he added much needed pace at the top of the pitch. Zusi made a difference when he came on, injected much needed pace towards the end of the game.

Getting rocked by Germany? C'mon guys don't kids yourselves anything other than German domination will be quite a shock. You're going to have to defend and defend and defend and hope you get a lucky break or can score from a set piece to get anything from this game.

[Saz]

[Saz]