2006 FIFA World Cup

by **Brent Burns** on Wed Jun 21, 2006 4:07 pm

FIFA via Yahoo! Sports confirm the following knockout stage games:

Argentina vs. Mexico

Netherlands vs. Portugal

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by **Brent Burns** on Wed Jun 21, 2006 4:18 pm

horn17 wrote:Van Nisteroy (SP- in a hurry)
Henry
C. Ronaldo
Drogba
Numerous others not to be mentioned.....

Rooney who? Just visited the most current Best Young Player Award list presented by Gillette. It shows that the top 3 vote-getters currently are:

Valencia (Ecuador) by a very large margin

Messi (Argentina)

Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal)

Rooney only gets 4% of the vote.

The Best Young Player Award will be presented on July 7. That list can be found at Yahoo! under FIFA World Cup on the bottom.

by **FLAK** on Wed Jun 21, 2006 4:38 pm

Brent Burns wrote:
horn17 wrote:Van Nisteroy (SP- in a hurry)
Henry
C. Ronaldo
Drogba
Numerous others not to be mentioned.....

Rooney who? Just visited the most current Best Young Player Award list presented by Gillette. It shows that the top 3 vote-getters currently are:

Valencia (Ecuador) by a very large margin

Messi (Argentina)

Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal)

Rooney only gets 4% of the vote.

The Best Young Player Award will be presented on July 7. That list can be found at Yahoo! under FIFA World Cup on the bottom.

Hey hey maybe because he just started his first game yesterday? There is still plenty of tourney left

by **JosueSays** on Wed Jun 21, 2006 5:09 pm

Rooney is good, but England's best player in this world cup, in my opinion, has been J. cole. He is the one player to be consistenly good in all three matches and provided an amazing Goal against Sweden (England's toughest opponent so far).

Speaking of Sweden, I think they beat Germany 2-1 in the next round!

by **bste_lax** on Wed Jun 21, 2006 5:17 pm

Anyone doing anything special for tomorrow's US game? I am getting up early again and heading to the same English Pub I went to for the Netherlands game last weekend. The whole place is all soccer-oriented and they have some nice HD TVs in the place.

by **Brent Burns** on Wed Jun 21, 2006 7:06 pm

bste_lax wrote:Anyone doing anything special for tomorrow's US game? I am getting up early again and heading to the same English Pub I went to for the Netherlands game last weekend. The whole place is all soccer-oriented and they have some nice HD TVs in the place.

Since that game is listed to be at 16:00, does that mean it will be at 4 pm in Germany while our time would be around 9 am CST? Yours would be around 7 am, right? For me, I will minimize the MatchCast and keep checking on that. :lol:

by **Brent Burns** on Wed Jun 21, 2006 7:09 pm

JosueSays wrote:Speaking of Sweden, I think they beat Germany 2-1 in the next round!

Just curious to see if you are basing your thoughts on Sweden beating Germany because of the Germans' suspect defense?

What do you think of the Oranje's chances against Portugal? I can see that Portugal has several outstanding offensive players especially Cristino Ronaldo's offensive plays.

by **bste_lax** on Wed Jun 21, 2006 7:19 pm

Brent Burns wrote:
bste_lax wrote:Anyone doing anything special for tomorrow's US game? I am getting up early again and heading to the same English Pub I went to for the Netherlands game last weekend. The whole place is all soccer-oriented and they have some nice HD TVs in the place.

Since that game is listed to be at 16:00, does that mean it will be at 4 pm in Germany while our time would be around 9 am CST? Yours would be around 7 am, right? For me, I will minimize the MatchCast and keep checking on that.

That is correct, meeting at this pub to watch the game at 7 AM with some co-workers. Actually going at 6:30 to make sure I have a seat. The joys of not having to go to work until 10 AM.

by **Sonny** on Wed Jun 21, 2006 8:26 pm

10 am start for us in the East. Lots of folks will be watching online, I imagine.

by **Brent Burns** on Thu Jun 22, 2006 9:13 am

While reading the commentary on the Ghana-US game, I found this funny in some way and do wonder if that person is from England when this person wrote, "The debate between Ghana and US is hotting up so why don't you join the FanChat?" Would one of us usually say, "the debate between A and B is heating up"? I just find that interesting and funny- "hotting up."

by **Sonny** on Thu Jun 22, 2006 9:26 am

Ghana 1 - USA nil, 22nd minute. Lets go Sam's Army....

by **sohotrightnow** on Thu Jun 22, 2006 9:29 am

Italy 1
CZR 0

Well, at least one team is taking care of their end of the bargain

by **Sonny** on Thu Jun 22, 2006 9:30 am

I'm stuck at work and I can't get the MatchCast thing to work due to server load. Arrrghhhh....

by **sohotrightnow** on Thu Jun 22, 2006 9:37 am

One advantage of being on the west coast...it's still early here. We have a corner kick, 9 minutes left in the half

by **sohotrightnow** on Thu Jun 22, 2006 9:40 am

We are still playing tentative. Where is the passion and aggressiveness we showed against Italy? They just subbed Reyna out...thank God. He is way past his prime.

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