It’s the semi-final of the 2010 Soccer World Cup in South Africa. Uruguay will face the Netherlands in one matchup while Germany will face Spain in the other. What is your prediction? Which team will make the final and which team will win the 2010 World Cup?
Uruguay vs. Netherlands
Jul 6 1:30pm (CT) on ESPN
Germany vs. Spain
Jul 7 1:30pm (CT) on ESPN
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Germany all the way.
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World Cup 2010 is over, as Brazil is not taking place anymore.
Juarez Belém
Brazil
Well I hope spain!
But their performance was kind of disappointing in the match against Paraguay. And now germany seems very formidable.
All in all I hope the champion will be any team but Germany! They’ve already won enough cups!
Quorthon………..
The Dutch will do it this time.
I couldn’t believe what I saw against Brazil.It made me think at 1974 Hol-Bra 2-0 with a red card for Brazilian Perreira.The 2nd half of 2010 was alike that match.
Also the unsportsman like behaviour of the Brazilians,look what they did to Robben.
In 74 Holland-Germany was the final,this time we will win.
Do you remember Holland beat all South American teams in 74(Uruguay 2-0,Argentina 4-0 and Brazil 2-0).
By the way I think Germany will have a hell of a job playing against Spain.
A Germany-Holland Final would be great to see.
Thank god that horrible boasting cheat Maradona finally got what he deserved. Yippee! A super result.
Germany seem in the best form. Spain have the better players, so I’d guess one of those to win title. It’s been a good tournament, more fun than watching chess! I hate the Ruy Lopez, Petrov and Queen’s Indian which are all common in master games, yawn!
Anonymous 10:47 AM,
Very good point about Holland’s performance in 1974. They were the best team there.
Knockouts are stupid, period. Thus such injustices happen. Same with Rugby Union.
The World Cup should be a round robin of 8 qualified teams; that would much more likely produce a meaningful and justified winner.
Same with the upcoming Candidates. The likely Challenger from this will be Carlsen or Kramnik. Yet which one of them it is to be is to be decided by a 4-game mini-match. To decide the CHALLENGER for the WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP!! Just utterly absurd!
Well, I’ve seen a lot of Petrov defences at WC soccer!
Germany derserves to win, they perform without luck.
Soccer is a sport where wrongs by arbiters are impossible to avoid! We took a clear penalty at 53′ over Kaká, when the scores was 0-1 yet; with a 0-2, the game would be over.
Juarez Belém
Mossoró – RN
Brazil
Argentina opened with 1. e4 hoping to come out and attack Germany. But Germany answered with the Petroff. The result?…… a sound thrashing!!!
A Petroff gets you a counterattacking goal after 3 minutes? I don’t think so. Must have been a Sicilian. Looked like a good Sicilian thrashing!!
There have, though, been far too many “Petroffs” here.
Changes are needed to make goals more gettable, so that the better team can actually win and not be stonewalled to a draw.
Widen the goalposts and get rid of the offside rule. That’s the way we played it at lunchtime at school and a lot more goals were scored. It was also much more fun.
Similarly in chess, big changes are needed to avoid the Petroffs. Chess in its current form is doomed. Computers will have analysed it out to a draw in 15-20 years. Fischerrandom somehow lacks something. I suggest adding two additional pieces that move like [1] Rook plus knight [2] Bishop plus Knight.
Chess goes deadly dull once queens are exchanged. With three queen-like pieces, it should be much more interesting.
Also get rid of draws by stalemate and three-move repetition, and ban draw offers before move 45.
It is blindingly obvious that video refereeing needs to be introduced to cut out the monumentally bad refereeing decisions, the cheating and playacting.
A team could appeal to the video ref up to three times the team’s appeal is wrong over the number of times it is right.
Unbelievable that anybody would resist bringing this in. Is Blatter Ilyumzhinov in disguise?
Great to see the cheating, playacting, unsportsmanlike teams of Argentina, Brazil, Italy and France are out. Perhaps for the first time in a generation we shall see Semis and Final without blatant cheating.