Category: WORLD CUP

  • TALK OF THE TOWN JULY 11: WORLD CUP UPDATE!

    In Celebration of USA’s 2-0 win over Mexico that qualified  USA for the World Cup I have decided to do a World Cup Update

    Qualified Teams

    South Korea
    Iran
    Australia
    Japan
    Costa Rica
    United States
    Argentina
    Brazil
    Italy
    Netherlands

    Other Teams I think will qualify

    Honduras
    Colombia
    Chile
    Ecuador
    Uruguay`
    Mexico
    Spain
    France
    England
    Ukraine
    Bosnia and Herzegovina
    Greece
    Portugal
    Israel
    Switzerland
    Turkey
    Sweden
    Germany
    Denmark
    Belgium
    Croatia

    Now, If you did the math 5 spots are left that I did NOT predict. Why I haven’t projected it is some games haven’t been announced yet so I can’t predict a game if I don’t know who plays in it!

     

  • For my 350th post… 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup Final 4 preview

    Pre-group stage I projected this

    Semi-finals Final
     PICK
    26 June
     Brazil 3
      Uruguay 1
    30 June
      Brazil 2 (2)
     Spain 2 (4)
    Third place
    27 June 30 June
      Spain  2   Uruguay  0
      Italy  1   Italy  2

    Post-group stage, I projected the 4 teams and where they start right so why change anything?

  • CONCACAF WORD CUP QUALIFIER UPDATE

    currently the standings look like this

    Team
    		 Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
     United States 6 4 1 1 7 3 +4 13
     Costa Rica 6 3 2 1 7 3 +4 11
     Mexico 6 1 5 0 3 2 +1 8
     Honduras 6 2 1 3 6 7 −1 7
     Panama 6 1 3 2 5 7 −2 6
     Jamaica 6 0 2 4 2 8 −6 2

    Game schedule

    Costa Rica Honduras Jamaica Mexico Panama United States
    Costa Rica  — 1–0 2–0 15 Oct 2–0 6 Sep
    Honduras  11 Oct — 2–0 2–2 10 Sep 2–1
    Jamaica  10 Sep 15 Oct — 0–1 1–1 1–2
    Mexico  0–0 6 Sep 0–0 — 11 Oct 0–0
    Panama  2–2 2–0 6 Sep 0–0 — 15 Oct
    United States  1–0 1–0 11 Oct 10 Sep 2–0 —

    On the next matchday (6 September):

    • United States will clinch at least a playoff berth if they win AND Panama lose to Jamaica.

     

    My predictions for upcoming games!

    6 September 2013 Costa Rica  v  United States
    0  CSD’s Pick  1
    6 September 2013 Mexico  v  Honduras
    2  CSD’s Pick  1
    6 September 2013 Panama  v  Jamaica
    2  CSD’s Pick  0
    10 September 2013 Honduras  v  Panama
    1  CSD’s Pick  0
    10 September 2013 Jamaica  v  Costa Rica
    1  CSD’s Pick  3
    10 September 2013 United States  v  Mexico
    1  CSD’s Pick  1
    11 October 2013 Honduras  v  Costa Rica
    1  CSD’s Pick  2
    11 October 2013 Mexico  v  Panama
    2  CSD’ Pick  1
    11 October 2013 United States  v  Jamaica
    3 CSD’s Pick  1
    15 October 2013 Costa Rica  v  Mexico
    0  CSD’s Pick  1
    15 October 2013 Jamaica  v  Honduras
    0  CSD’s Pick  1
    6 September 2013 Panama  v  United States
    1 CSD’s Pick  2
     If everything goes as  I projected above the standings would look like this
    Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
     United States 10 7 2 1 14 6 +8 23
     Mexico 10 4 6 0 9 5 +4 18
     Costa Rica 10 5 2 3 12 7 +5 17
     Honduras 10 4 1 5 10 11 −1 13
     Panama 10 2 3 5 9 12 −3 9
     Jamaica 10 0 2 8 4 17 −13 2

    The 3 top teams (in this case USA, Mexico and Costa Rica) automatically qualify for the World Cup. The 4th-place team (in this case Honduras) will play New Zealand, the two teams will play a two-legged home-and-away series. The winner, decided on aggregate score, will qualify for the World Cup.

    aggregate score is the combined score of the 2 games combined. If the aggregate score is a tie after both games the 2 teams will play in a PK shootout directly after the second match has finished.

  • FIFA CONFEDERATIONS CUP PROJECTION

    You know, i’ve been thinking and it’s about time I do some soccer. Today i will publish this article that you are reading right now and on June 19th I will be publishing a CONCACAF world-cup qualifier projection ( that has already started it will be more like a mid-point projection)

    The FIFA Confederations cup is held every 4 years, 1 year before the World Cup. The Host of the World Cup which is 1 year after the Confederations cup hosts the Confederations Cup.

    TEAM         CONFEDERATION  HOW THEY QUALIFIED

    Brazil                     CONEMBOL                      Hosts

    Spain                           UEFA            2010 FIFA World Cup winner

    Japan                            AFC               2011 AFC Asian Cup winner

    Mexico                 CONCACAF 2011 CONCACAF Gold Cup winner

    Uruguay              CONEMBOL       2011 Copa America winner

    Tahiti                         OFC              2012 OFC Nations Cup winner

    Italy                          UEFA             UEFA Euro 2012 runners-up*

    Nigeria                     CAF          2013 Africa Cup of Nations winner

    *Spain won the UEFA Euro 2012 but already received an auto-bid from winning the 2010 FIFA World Cup so the runner-up of the UEFA Euro 2012 got the spot in the confederations cup.

     

    POOL A     POOL B

    Brazil          Nigeria

    Italy            Spain

    Japan         Tahiti

    Mexico      Uruguay

     

    Group A

    15 June 2013
    16:00    		 Brazil  VS  Japan
    WINNER 3 CSD’s Pick 0
    16 June 2013
    16:00    		 Mexico  VS  Italy
    TIE 1 CSD’s Pick 1 TIE
    19 June 2013
    16:00    		 Brazil  VS  Mexico
    WINNER 3 CSD’s Pick  1
    19 June 2013
    19:00    		 Italy  VS  Japan
    WINNER 2 CSD’s Pick  0
    22 June 2013
    16:00    		 Italy  VS  Brazil
    2 CSD’s Pick 3 WINNER
    22 June 2013
    16:00    		 Japan  VS  Mexico
    1 CSD’s Pick 2 WINNER

    Projected Final Standings

    Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
     Brazil 3 3 0 0 9 3 +6 9
     Italy 3 1 1 1 5 4 +1 4
     Mexico 3 1 1 1 4 5 −1 4
     Japan 3 0 0 3 1 7 −6 0

    Group B

    16 June 2013
    19:00    		 Spain  VS  Uruguay
    WINNER 3 CSD’s Pick 1
    17 June 2013
    16:00    		 Tahiti  VS  Nigeria
    1′ CSD’s Pick 5 WINNER
    20 June 2013
    16:00    		 Spain  VS  Tahiti
    WINNER 9 CSD’s Pick  1
    20 June 2013
    19:00    		 Nigeria  VS  Uruguay
    TIE 2 CSD’s Pick  2 TIE
    23 June 2013
    16:00    		 Nigeria  VS  Spain
    2 CSD’s Pick  4 WINNER
    23 June 2013
    16:00    		 Uruguay  VS  Tahiti  
    6 CSD’s Pick  1

    Projected Final Standings

    Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
     Spain 3 3 0 0 16 4 +12 9
     Uruguay 3 1 1 1 9 6 +3 4
     Nigeria 3 1 1 1 9 7 +2 0
     Tahiti 3 0 0 3 3 20 −17 0

    Knockout stage

    In the knockout stages, if a game is tied at the end of regulation, extra time will be played (two periods of 15 minutes each) and followed, if the game is still tied, by penalty Kicks to determine a winner.

    Semi-finals Final
     PICK
    26 June
     Brazil 3
      Uruguay 1
    30 June
      Brazil 2 (2)
     Spain 2 (4)
    Third place
    27 June 30 June
      Spain  2   Uruguay  0
      Italy  1   Italy  2