FIFA World Cup Germany 2006

[Dell19]

He won't do anything, Trinidad is going to win 1-0.

You stole my prediction for that match. I made it ages ago.

 

[willemvanoranje]

Senegal did it, so why shouldn't Trinidad.

 

[Dell19]

Surely Senegal are quite a bit better than Trinidad.

 

[Lambert Simnel]

Surely Senegal are quite a bit better than Trinidad.

Quiet right. Remember though, this isn't just Trinidad that England have to play... ... it's both Trinidad and Tobago. Do they get to have 22 men on the park, or is it two successive games for the England XI ?

 

[SoCalian]

I think it's 22 Dwight Yorke clones.

 

[willemvanoranje]

Surely Senegal are quite a bit better than Trinidad.

Surely France at the time was.. ok forget it haha. But still, no one expected Senegal to win.. it was the colonized againt the colonizer.. for some reason that brought some extra aspect to the game I guess.

 

[SoCalian]

same with the Portugal-Angola game coming up this time around.

 

[Grisu]

ok here's the official Swiss team:

Keepers:
12 Diego Benaglio (Nacional Madeira/22 years)
21 Fabio Coltorti (Grasshoppers/25)
1 Pascal Zuberbühler (Basel/35).

Defense:
19 Valon Behrami (Lazio Rom/21)
23 Philipp Degen (Borussia Dortmund/23)
2 Johan Djourou (Arsenal/19)
13 Stéphane Grichting (Auxerre/27)
3 Ludovic Magnin (VfB Stuttgart/27)
Patrick Müller (Lyon/29)
4 Philippe Senderos (Arsenal/21)
17 Christoph Spycher (Eintracht Frankfurt/28)

Midfield:
16 Tranquillo Barnetta (Bayer Leverkusen/21)
7 Ricardo Cabanas (1. FC Köln/27)
14 David Degen (Basel/23)
15 Blerim Dzemaili (Zürich/20)
10 Daniel Gygax (Lille/24)
5 Xavier Margairaz (Zürich/22)
6 Johann Vogel (AC Milan/29)
8 Raphaël Wicky (Hamburger SV/29)

Strikers:
9 Alex Frei (Rennes/26)
18 Mauro Lustrinelli (Sparta Prag/30)
11 Marco Streller (1. FC Köln/24)
22 Johan Vonlanthen (Breda/20)

no real surprises there. some expected Hakan Yakin to make it, but personally I think it's a good decision to leave him at home, since we was injured most of the season, and his character leaves something to be desired....

 

[Syntherio]

Goalkeeper:
1 Jens Lehmann (FC Arsenal, 36 years)
12 Oliver Kahn (Bayern München, 36)
23 Timo Hildebrand (VfB Stuttgart, 27)

Defence:
3 Arne Friedrich (Hertha BSC, 26)
17 Per Mertesacker (Hannover 96, 21)
4 Robert Huth (FC Chelsea, 21)
21 Christoph Metzelder (Borussia Dortmund, 25)
6 Jens Nowotny (Bayer Leverkusen, 32)
16 Philipp Lahm (Bayern München, 22)
2 Marcell Jansen (Borussia Mönchengladbach, 20)

Midfield:
7 Bastian Schweinsteiger (Bayern München, 21)
19 Bernd Schneider (Bayer Leverkusen, 32)
8 Torsten Frings (Werder Bremen, 29)
5 Sebastian Kehl (Borussia Dortmund, 26)
18 Tim Borowski (Werder Bremen, 26)
13 Michael Ballack (Bayern München, 29)
15 Thomas Hitzlsperger (VfB Stuttgart, 24)

Forwards:
11 Miroslav Klose (Werder Bremen, 27)
20 Lukas Podolski (1. FC Köln, 20)
14 Gerald Asamoah (FC Schalke 04, 27)
10 Oliver Neuville (Borussia Mönchengladbach, 33)
9 Mike Hanke (VfL Wolfsburg, 22)
22 David Odonkor (Borussia Dortmund, 22)

Without Patrick Owomoyela (Werder Bremen), Kevin Kuranyi (FC Schalke 04) and Fabian Ernst (FC Schalke 04), but with Hitzlsperger, Hanke and Nowotny...

 

[willemvanoranje]

Goal
Edwin van der Sar (Manchester United)
Henk Timmer (AZ)
Maarten Stekelenburg (Ajax)

Defence
Khalid Bouhlarouz (HSV)
Giovanni van Bronckhorst (Barcelona)
John Heitinga (Ajax)
Kew Jaliens (AZ)
Joris Mathijssen (AZ)
Jan Kromkamp (Liverpool)
Tim de Cler (AZ)

Midfield
Rafael van der Vaart (HSV)
Wesley Sneijder (Ajax)
Hedwiges Maduro (Ajax)
Phillip Cocu (PSV)
Mark van Bommel (Barcelona)
Denny Landzaat (AZ)

Attack
Ruud van Nistelrooy (Manchester United)
Dirk Kuyt (Feyenoord)
Ryan Babel (Ajax)
Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink (PSV)
Arjen Robben (Chelsea)
Robin van Persie (Arsenal)

 

[Rhye]

Italy

PORTIERI: Buffon (Juventus), Peruzzi (Lazio), Amelia (Livorno)
DIFENSORI: Zambrotta (Juventus), Nesta (Milan), Cannavaro (Juventus), Grosso (Palermo), Zaccardo (Palermo), Barzagli (Palermo), Materazzi (Inter), Oddo (Lazio)
CENTROCAMPISTI: Camoranesi (Juventus), Pirlo (Milan), Gattuso (Milan), De Rossi (Roma), Perrotta (Roma), Barone (Palermo)
ATTACCANTI: Totti (Roma), Toni (Fiorentina), Gilardino (Milan), Del Piero (Juventus), Inzaghi (Milan), Iaquinta (Udinese)



I am quite disgusted by some choices (Iaquinta in, Vieri in if he weren't injuried, and Tavano and Lucarelli out) led by Lippi's son (a solicitor) and Moggi's (father of GEA boss) influence

 

[Marla_Singer]

For France, the only things to remember are :

- Ludovic Giuly and Robbie Pirès may play the Champions league final, but, according to Domenech, they don't have the level to join the French national teams.

- Fabien Barthez, which has currently no club since he's just been fired by Marseille, is a better keeper than Grégory Coupet, who has been French champion 5 times in a row and have just played 3 Champions league quarters in a row.


Okay, here is the list of the 23 players of the French squad :

Goal :
#1 - Fabien Barthez (Olympique de Marseille, France)
#2 - Grégory Coupet (Olympique Lyonnais, France)
#3 - Mickaël Landreau (FC Nantes, France)

Defense :
Eric Abidal (Olympique Lyonnais, France)
Jean-Alain Boumsong (Newcastle, England)
Pascal Chimbonda (Wigan, England)
William Gallas (Chelsea, England)
Gaël Givet (AS Monaco, France)
Willy Sagnol (Bayern München, Germany)
Mikaël Silvestre (Manchester United, England)
Lilian Thuram (Juventus Torino, Italy)

Midfield :
Vikash Dhorasoo (Paris Saint-Germain, France)
Alou Diarra (RC Lens, France)
Claude Makelele (Chelsea, England)
Florent Malouda (Olympique Lyonnais, France)
Patrick Vieira (Juventus Torino, Italy)
Zinédine Zidane (Real Madrid, Spain)

Attack :
Djibril Cissé (Liverpool, England)
Thierry Henry (Arsenal, England)
Franck Ribéry (Olympique de Marseille, France)
Louis Saha (Manchester United, England)
David Trezeguet (Juventus Torino, Italy)
Sylvain Wiltord (Olympique Lyonnais, France)

 

[willemvanoranje]

That's an awful lot of central strikers...he could've left Saha or Ribéry at home for Pirès or Giuly...

 

[BCLG100]

Saha's been in very good form though...

 

[classical_hero]

He has. I'd say get rid of Henry.

 

[dutchfire]

ok here's the official Swiss team:
22 Johan Vonlanthen (Breda/20)

It should be NAC Breda

 

[BirraImperial]

Since everyone is posting theirs I'll post mine:

Costa Rica

Goal:

Jose Francisco Porrras (Deportivo Saprissa)
Alvaro Mesen (CS Herediano)
Wardy Alfaro (Alajuelense)

Defense:

Jervis Drummond (Deportivo Saprissa)
Michael Umaña (Herediano)
Luis Marin (Alajuelense)
Harold Wallace (Alajuelense)
Michael Rodriguez (Alajuelense)
Gabriel Badilla (Deportivo Saprissa)
Gilberto Martinez (Brescia, Italy)
Leonardo Gonzalez (Herediano)

Midfield:

Walter Centeno (Deportivo Saprissa)
Cristian Bolaños (Deportivo saprissa)
Carlos Hernández (Alajuelense)
Mauricio Solís (Comunicaciones, Guatemala)
Douglas Sequeira (Real Salt Lake, USA)
Danny Fonseca (F.C. Brujas)
Randall Azofeifa (Deportivo Saprissa)
Kurt Bernard (Puntarenas F.C.)

Attack:

Rónald Gómez (Deportivo Saprissa)
Álvaro Saborío (Deportivo Saprissa)
Paulo Wanchope (Currently no Club)
Víctor Núñez (Alajuelense)

 

[willemvanoranje]

Douglas Sequeira (Real Salt Lake, USA)

Thank God it wasn't the fake one from Salt Lake..

 

[Marla_Singer]

That's an awful lot of central strikers...he could've left Saha or Ribéry at home for Pirès or Giuly...

Well, the thing is that in his list of 6 forwards there are two midfielders...

Both Wiltord and Ribery plays more as offensive right wing midfielder than as forwards. I don't know why Domenech has put them in the list of forwards.

 

[SoCalian]

Thank God it wasn't the fake one from Salt Lake..

the serriously couldn't come up with a better name for an expanison team. At Least the logo is nice. Taht doesn't negate the fact that Real Salt lake is perhaps the worst 1st division team in the world. HaHa, you're taking a guys who plays for Real Salt Lake! wait...nm so are we. dammit, why must Eddie Pope have so much experience, but be so old and out of form. I can only hope gibbs gets the starting job over him in the back line.

As far as cutting French strikers, take out Cisse rather than Saha. Oh, and I almost for got to add...


HAHAHAHA you're taking boumsong!!!!! AHAHAHAHA