Which of those nations do you expect to win a WC Title during your lifetime ?

[Marla_Singer]

I have no idea about Italian. Being my mother language, I can't see how it sounds from anybody who's not italian. Can you answer to this? I'm quite curious...

Italian is an absolutely beautiful language... with no doubt my favourite.

MCDread is right, even insults are beautiful in Italian. The only problem about Italian is that it's a language using very few different sounds. As such, it's more difficult for an Italian to learn another language then it is for other speakers. The language using the largest variety of sound is Russian... and Russians usually are learning fast foreign languages.

 

[Rhye]

MCDread is right, even insults are beautiful in Italian.

This is true, though I can't find the reason.

I mean, insults, blaspemies etc. are incredibly fanciful in Italian, and that is due to the rich language (opposed to English, with a very short dictionary, saying just f**king / f**k in every occasion).
But I ask myself: aren't blasphemies and insults the same bizzarre in French or Spanish?

 

[Loppan Torkel]

I voted for the Netherlands, Spain and the US because they will win sooner or later, plus Mexico who has a good shot at it too, having a large population with a solid tradition of playing football if I'm not incorrect.

Sweden and Czech Rep. both have great teams now and a small chance to win but only this and the next WC. In the long run Turkey has a solid chance too.