World Cup 2014 + Astrology Discussion

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I'll be rooting for Japan and South Korea.

Japan is a relatively easy group. they should make the top 16. If they make it to the quarterfinals it would be a record performance. highly possible with Kagawa and Honda on the attack.

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South Korea is in a tough group. I predict they will not make it to the final 16.

Belgium and Russia are very physical.

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Japan just beat Belgium and drew with the netherlands in November.

Ivory Coast and Japan will be the top 2 favorites in their group.

Greece and Colombia are relatively weak.

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There will be disastrous events at this world cup. There will be rioting and protests. Buses will be set on fire…traffic will come to a halt.

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yeah. It is likely that some stuff like that will happen.

Brazil being part of BRICS is not going to help either with the intl press coverage.

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video purports to show the draw being rigged.

i think it's obvious all the world cups are rigged to some extent.

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NWO team leaders USA and UK will not make it out of the first round. they got a bad draw leading some to suspect that they were purposefully placed in hard groups.

Brazil got an easy draw as well.

[CTsar]

Japan needs this guy in the team:

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haha. Japan has been known to flop when it really matters though.

their first match is against Ivory Coast which will be tough. if they can win the first game, they will win all 3 games.

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I wouldn't call Japan's group easy.

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(06-11-2014 08:20 PM)EVILYOSHIDA Wrote:  Japan just beat Belgium and drew with the netherlands in November.

Ivory Coast and Japan will be the top 2 favorites in their group.

Greece and Colombia are relatively weak.

Neither are weak, but it also depends on which Greece side shows up; Colombia is never weak and playing so close to home will be to its advantage.

Japan, in fairness, plays out of one of the weakest regions in football. I'm not suggesting it's weak, but rather that the other teams in its group are coming from stronger qualifying regions.

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greece is ranked 12th in the world by FIFA but from the analysis I read they said they were the weakest in the group.

Colombia I think also failed to quality for the last 2-3 world cups. but you might be right.

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(06-11-2014 08:34 PM)EVILYOSHIDA Wrote:  NWO team leaders USA and UK will not make it out of the first round. they got a bad draw leading some to suspect that they were purposefully placed in hard groups.

Brazil got an easy draw as well.

They both will have it tough.

US in football always seems to overachieve; England the opposite.

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(06-11-2014 09:15 PM)EVILYOSHIDA Wrote:  greece is ranked 12th in the world by FIFA but from the analysis I read they said they were the weakest in the group.

Colombia I think also failed to quality for the last 2-3 world cups. but you might be right.

Sure, but Europe's footballing region (UEFA) is the strongest qualifying region by far, so Greece is up against tougher sides, despite some of the weaker European sides.

Colombia is also coming from a very strong region; South America is incredibly rich in footballing talent, and Colombia has always put together decent sides, including when it's not qualified. So the paper comparison really means little; the only teams that are clear favourites on paper are Germany, Spain, and Brazil (with Italy and Holland getting honourable mentions).

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(06-11-2014 08:32 PM)EVILYOSHIDA Wrote:  video purports to show the draw being rigged.

i think it's obvious all the world cups are rigged to some extent.

although the bottom bracket looks slightly weaker on paper you can't really argue that any team was clearly favored in the draw. Brazil has an easy 1st round, but a nasty 2nd against either Spain or Netherlands. FIFA doesn't rig matches. They are corrupt in other ways, like they are exempt from paying taxes to the host country.