World Cup 2014 Brasil

Or your players will choke like they did in olympics final

dont know why but this brazilian side doesnt really look that scary on paper

think there are a few better sides in the tournaments

just because u havent lost a match in brazil since 1975 then law of averages mean you will have to lose one sometime and i reckon this could be the time when it happens

do i have to remind you about france 98 and scotland

I agree, there's certainly not an air of invincibility about this Brazil side. They'll always be strong, I'm not saying they're not, I can't remember Brazil ever having a rubbish side, but I do think teams can get at them. Unfortunately I don't see England as being the side to do it. Argentina still look strongest for me - I really want to see Messi and Aguero have a really excellent tournament.

Just for the record how many host nations have succeeded in winning? England ('66), Germany ('74) Argentina ('78) are the only ones I can recall so far am I right?

Uruguay won the first one in 1930 as the first home nation.

Plus Italy (1934) and France (1998).

from the world cup stats looks like only 1 of brazils 5 wins has taken place in South america

so thats 6 out of 19 torunaments won so 1 in 3 that home team has won the cup

not looking odds on that brazil will win it

No European team will win this cup, that I am pretty sure of, People forget teams like Chile, Uruguay and Columbia are more than capable of beating any of the European teams

I don't think any European team has ever won the WC in S. America. I can't see Chile or Uruguay beating France, Spain, Germany or Italy. They could beat England though, Chile won England 2-0 a few months ago.

Italy are a team in transition, don't think they will do very well at all this year, England and Uruguay should make it out of group easily.

(10-05-2014 18:32 )whorelover Wrote:  I don't think any European team has ever won the WC in S. America. I can't see Chile or Uruguay beating France, Spain, Germany or Italy. They could beat England though, Chile won England 2-0 a few months ago.

yeah in an friendly where roy hodgson was experimenting.

;last world cup in S america was in 1978 the game has changed a lot since then footballers are a lot more fitter than they ever were in the 70's 80's and even the 90's

I mean if you look at most of the brazilian team most of them play in Europe so do players of most of the south american sides so the conditions will be just as bad for them than for the northern european teams