Picking a world cup team

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Iran for me

[ToTaL ITK]

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[Cleve van Leef]

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You Cannot Be SERIUOS!

[Canton Kev]

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I reckon Mexico will be a bit of a dark horse this tournament.

They play their 3 group games in Mexico and if they top the group, their Ro32 game is in Mexico City. The winner of that plays the Ro16 in…. Mexico City.

They can reach the Quarter Finals without ever playing away, and 4 of their 5 games will be in Mexico City.

Pretty much every advantage is stacked in their favour, no Pot 1 team in their group, all home games, next to no travelling.

[NYCBlue]

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I reckon Mexico will be a bit of a dark horse this tournament.

They play their 3 group games in Mexico and if they top the group, their Ro32 game is in Mexico City. The winner of that plays the Ro16 in…. Mexico City.

They can reach the Quarter Finals without ever playing away, and 4 of their 5 games will be in Mexico City.

Pretty much every advantage is stacked in their favour, no Pot 1 team in their group, all home games, next to no travelling.

Then they have to win 3 games against the best teams in the world. I don't fancy them. As long as England don't win it, I'm OK.

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I reckon Mexico will be a bit of a dark horse this tournament.

They play their 3 group games in Mexico and if they top the group, their Ro32 game is in Mexico City. The winner of that plays the Ro16 in…. Mexico City.

They can reach the Quarter Finals without ever playing away, and 4 of their 5 games will be in Mexico City.

Pretty much every advantage is stacked in their favour, no Pot 1 team in their group, all home games, next to no travelling.

I suppose the only advantage not stacked in their favour is that other teams have much better players

[ToTaL ITK]

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Its coming home , footballs is coming home .....to France

[Undercoverinwurzelland]

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Leandro Bacuna's Curacao?

[William Treseder]

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My head tells me France, my heart tells me anyone but England, my nose tells me Collumbia.

[Taffster]

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I reckon Mexico will be a bit of a dark horse this tournament.

They play their 3 group games in Mexico and if they top the group, their Ro32 game is in Mexico City. The winner of that plays the Ro16 in…. Mexico City.

They can reach the Quarter Finals without ever playing away, and 4 of their 5 games will be in Mexico City.

Pretty much every advantage is stacked in their favour, no Pot 1 team in their group, all home games, next to no travelling.

I’ve thought that too.

For a country with a good deal of depth, a decent quality league, and a strong football culture, they have underachieved in international football.

This is to be an opportunity for them to go deep into the tournament, surely?

For the record, my team is Saudi Arabia. Lived there as a kid and so they are my “second”, or
“World-Cup”, team. (Then Argentina when Saudi get knocked out) Plus the home shirt is lovely.

There’ll be a bit of support from me for Iran too. If I hadn’t bought the Saudi shirt, the new Wales shirt, and the 150 shirt……I’d have tried to get the Iranian one.

[LA Bluebird]

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France the most talented team by a decent amount, can they avoid doing a France and self-destructing at some point? Other than that think all the usual big names have gaps, I think Portugal look pretty strong top to bottom in terms of a starting eleven.

This seems to me like the weakest Mexican squad in quite a few World Cups, I can't see them getting past the first decent team they face.

[Taunton Blue Genie]

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Some facts I have just gleaned about the Curaçao national team:

Managed by Dick Advokaat, they are possibly the first national side to appear at the World Cup where both the team and the manager whose names are associated with alcoholic beverages.

The team captain, who is currently the most-capped player for the national side is a former City player i.e. Leandro Bacuna.

Like Wales, Curaçao is not a sovereign state. It's a constituent part of The Netherlands, Dutch is one of its official languages and the King of The Netherlands is the Head of State.

Curaçao has a smaller population than Newport and represents the smallest country to be present at a World Cup.

[Bozza64]

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I never realised no country has won the World cup with a foreign manager!

[North Cardiff Blue]

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I never realised no country has won the World cup with a foreign manager!

They all have bar England. They are all foreigners, Spain's the worst everytime I go it's full of em, and a fair few brits too I suppose.