FIFA World Cup 2014!!!

[Baitty]

I think either germany or spain will take home the trophy two good teams who will domianate.

[bryant.coleman]

11 days to go to FIFA WorldCup 2014!!!!

And here is the Dutch squad:

[medicine]

You guys here the news about 2022 in Qatar today?  http://www.cbc.ca/sports/soccer/documents-allege-corruption-in-2022-world-cup-vote-1.2660963

More corruption.  Officials being payed off for votes.

This is a perfect example of how centralization leads to corruption.  A great example to demonstrate bitcoin's advantages over centrally controlled government currencies.

Really looking forward to World Cup!!

Being in Asia sucks though as the games are all between 1am and 7am  

Pulling for Korea and Mexico to have good showings.
Peace

[bryant.coleman]

You guys here the news about 2022 in Qatar today?  

Also, don't forget the fact that the Qatari Sheikhs used slave labour from India and Nepal to build the stadiums. I heard that more than 1,000 of the workers were either killed or handicapped during the construction process.

[Cryptopher]

You guys here the news about 2022 in Qatar today?  

Also, don't forget the fact that the Qatari Sheikhs used slave labour from India and Nepal to build the stadiums. I heard that more than 1,000 of the workers were either killed or handicapped during the construction process.

Not too dissimilar from how the US railroad was originally built. Exploitation everywhere... :-/

[blitzcrank]

Though Brazil stands a good chance of winning the cup this year but I guess they might have to wait for the next one, because this year Germany is going to win for sure..

[Cryptopher]

Though Brazil stands a good chance of winning the cup this year but I guess they might have to wait for the next one, because this year Germany is going to win for sure..

That would be impressive if they did. Only South American teams have won World Cups hosted within the Americas, North, Central and South American hosted World Cup Finals.

It is Brazil's to lose in my mind, though I think that all of the South American teams (and Mexico) will do well.

[bryant.coleman]

Not too dissimilar from how the US railroad was originally built. Exploitation everywhere... :-/

The US railroad was built many many decades ago. It is surprising that this sort of slavery even exists now. Even more surprising is the silence of various human rights organizations, in this regard.

[azguard]

Contract    Lay    Back
USA     x1.00    x34.5
Brazil     x1.26    x3.39
Argentina     x1.15    x5.56
Uruguay     x1.01    x16.9
Italy     x1.04    x14.5
Germany     x1.10    x5.03
Spain     x1.11    x5.29
France     x1.02    x16.1
Portugal     x1.02    x19.2
Belgium     x1.03    x15.6
Holland    x1.04    x16.4
England    x1.01    x22.2
Colombia    x1.01    x15.9

with this seem like i expected to semis will go brazil argentina spain and germany

[bryant.coleman]

with this seem like i expected to semis will go brazil argentina spain and germany

Yes... my guess also. Brazil, Argentina, Spain and Germany. But Uruguay and Italy are having outside chances. Remember that Uruguay has historically performed well in Brazil.

[deepestfear]

I sense a Brazil vs Argentina final!

[Cryptopher]

Not too dissimilar from how the US railroad was originally built. Exploitation everywhere... :-/

The US railroad was built many many decades ago. It is surprising that this sort of slavery even exists now. Even more surprising is the silence of various human rights organizations, in this regard.

You may be surprised/not surprised (delete as appropriate) to see that the World hasn't changed so much, even through its pretty facade.

It's only high profile events like the World Cup that really put the focus, even just for a short while, on the practices used by many countries.

[bryant.coleman]

Detailed world cup roster from Brazil:

[nickenburg]

Brazil has the home advantage -though they don't seem too happy about the competition as a whole, so maybe they won't get allot of public support- Interesting to watch anyway.

Yeah from what I hear the Brazilians are mostly upset about both the Cup and the Olympics, because of corrupt politicians. Having said that, players tend to not care about politics or anything else as long as they are given an environment where they can play the game at the highest level with the best players in the world. So I don't think it will affect them.

Yes alot of Brazilians are upset, they are protesting against the WK because it cost's alot of money to host it.
While there are really poor people living in the favela's, it must be really hard to live there.
I also saw some things about the brazilian police killing children and people living on the streets
To clean Brazilie up for the WK, So the world thinks its all good.

[waqas]

Brazil has the home advantage -though they don't seem too happy about the competition as a whole, so maybe they won't get allot of public support- Interesting to watch anyway.

Yeah from what I hear the Brazilians are mostly upset about both the Cup and the Olympics, because of corrupt politicians. Having said that, players tend to not care about politics or anything else as long as they are given an environment where they can play the game at the highest level with the best players in the world. So I don't think it will affect them.

Yes alot of Brazilians are upset, they are protesting against the WK because it cost's alot of money to host it.
While there are really poor people living in the favela's, it must be really hard to live there.
I also saw some things about the brazilian police killing children and people living on the streets
To clean Brazilie up for the WK, So the world thinks its all good.

Its just not a Brazilian case its happen in most of developing countries because authorities use Police power to solve this problems and not giving poor right to live good life just concentrating their own luxuries 

[bryant.coleman]

The 30-member squad from Costa Rica:

[Destiffmast]

Apart from Spain I would love to see a European team winning the world cup in south America - Never been done before.

On the semi finals there will be 2 European teams and 2 American latin teams you can be sure of that ;-)

[saif92]

Apart from Spain I would love to see a European team winning the world cup in south America - Never been done before.

On the semi finals there will be 2 European teams and 2 American latin teams you can be sure of that ;-)

Many Peoples already predicated about four team which are going to reach Semi Final but some upset also can happen because we have some Dark Horses this time like Croatia and Belgium

[Destiffmast]

Well Belgium will play Portugal, personaly I think they will beat Belgium and then quarter finals with Argentina where they will be quicked out and Argentina gets to semi finals, and also Brazil, so thats the Latin teams making it, European teams on semi I believe it will be either Germany, Holland, Italy or Spain *hopefully not sick of them* lool

[2double0]

Waiting for either Spain or Italy to win this time :DD