Winners and Losers: World Cup Draw

After de the draw, the Brazilian coach Carlos Verri (Who?) was complaning about their bad luck, whose sent them Portugal and Cote D’Ivoire. In addition, he said the opposite for Spain, who was drawn “in a easy group”.

I don´t get his attitude… ¿What was his goal with that statement? A cheap excuse to chirp about Chile or Switzerland, to send a message to Spain or to do an early excuse to a possible failure. I just don’t get it. It was weird.

So I want to play that game, too. If Brazil were a loser and Spain a winner… there are other teams (or things) with the same fate…

Winners:

France: I guess the astrological cards continue to help Domenech.

Mexico: It’s a rare thing to paly the opener in a World Cup… and play against an unproved side. Its a golden chance for Guardado, Dos Santos, Vela, Blanco or Juárez to make grow thier value exponentialy.

Argentina: An easy group for a troubled team. Do you remember 2002 WC?

Every team in Group C: England will have 3 extra friendly matches, USA and Slovenia will enjoy a rare chance to make the next stage and Algeria will avoid a blowout in at least 2 games.

Italy: The defense of title route won’t be rough, at least in group stage.

Chile: The spectacular red machine got a chance to shine in this tournament. The opponents aren’t tough as Germany and Serbia, and them  fit well for the offensive-minded Chile.

Weak teams: With the heartbreaking exception on North Korea, the minnows (Algeria, New Zealand, Honduras) don’t seem in position to break the Salvadoran record. Their opponents are better but no 10-1 stuff.

South Africa organization: Ceremony was nice and there wasn’t notorious mistakes, something that a lot of people were fearing to happen.

Charlize Theron: If someone didn’t know her or put her charm in doubt… that someone doesn´t exist anymore.

FIFA: Blatter and Co. shaked off the criticism about their lack of Fair Play. With South Africa and Brazil being drawn in tough, the questions about a “rigged” draw had faded. There were plenty of them, in the prior WC draw, indeed.

Losers

FIFA: Well… Do you imagine the face of Blatter and Co. if Brazil and/or South Africa get ousted in the early matches? Nevermind.

Bafana-Bafana: If everything in the universe of football behaves normal, the vuvezelas will reach the utter sound in 3 matches and maybe the Final  game.

Serbia: The Serbs were given again with a tough group.  If only they could swap places with Slovenia…

Germany: In a very hard pool, a second place finish and a matchup with England in 1/8 Finals is an actual possibility.

Cote D’Ivoire: Read the Serbia paragraph… and change the word “Slovenia” for this: “Algeria”.

North Korea: I don’t like to be hard on some team, but believe me… this team is a serious contender for challenge the Salvadoran (1 GS and 13 GR) or Zairean (O GS and 14 GR).

Portugal: The qualifying torment continues…

Spain: OK, they are spotted in an easy group. But the matchup in 1/8 Finals don’t seems that soft. Suddenly, the ghost of Past WC’s appears in the Spaniard headquarters.

Ousted teams fans: It was disgusting to read things like “Hopefully, Chile will be blown out” in Peruvian forums or “Hopefully, Honduras will be blown out” in Costa Rican fellow web sites.  Please, realize this: your teams ARE NOT in this tournament. ARE NOT. Period.

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