Set my alarm clock just to see a group draw for next summer FIFA World Cup.

All the teams have a very fair draw and the opening match will be a good one between South Africa and Mexico. A tough match for the home team and if we talk about Group A, France also will have a difficult time with South Africa, Mexico and Uruguay are hardly to beat.

Group of Death- For me Group D and Group G but if you look at overall group draw, you can not pick two teams to go to the next round and it is means that we have a balanced draw this time.

Favourite Team this time – For sure it’s Brasil again and probably Spain with a very good track record in qualifying campaign.

Dark Horse – as usual, the Malaysian will go with England, Holland and Argentina as ‘standard’ teams to support but I’ll go to the usual suspect Germany and / or Italy and Ivory Coast. If you look down to first eleven of the Ivory Coast, you’ll see that their team is the one to watch in next summer and I’ll not suprise to see an African team to go very far as this tournament is gonna be in their soil next year. Just for your note –> No other team has won a WORLD CUP outside their continent except the superior Brazil Team.

Below is the full draw:- check it out

Group A

South Africa, Mexico, Uruguay, France

Group B

Argentina, Nigeria, South Korea, Greece

Group C

England, USA, Algeria, Slovenia

Group D

Germany, Australia, Serbia, Ghana

Group E

Netherlands, Denmark, Japan, Cameroon

Group F

Italy, Paraguay, New Zealand, Slovakia

Group G

Brasil, North Korea, Ivory Coast, Portugal

Group H

Spain, Switzerland, Honduras, Chile

 

I found this is very interesting for a ‘builder’ like me.. and YES, you may had received this picture from the forwarded email. But this is different since the interior decorations pictures also included.  I am totally agreed with the ‘dizziness’ for people who visited the house … ME … looking the picture also made me wanna to throw out…

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An installation of an upside down house in Trassenheide Germany was opened to the public two weeks ago and was designed by Polish partners Klaudiusz Golos and Sebastion Mikuciuk for the Edutainment exhibition company.

People who have visited the house reported feeling dizzy and disorientated. An interesting alternative view of every day items and the designers did a great job with the interior. Similar buildings have been designed upside down before but only from the exterior.

Source: Weirdy News

 

What a great game and worth every ‘molecules’ of my sleepiness this morning to watch this game……. and it’s the end of the road for Turkey, the come back king.

Telling you the truth, I was expecting the game will be extended in xtra time and already top-up my special black coffee before the ‘real magic’ Phillip Lahm played a one-two with Thomas Hitzlsperger and showed his remarkable composure to fire past Rustu into the near top corner, sending Germany into the final

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SKY SPORTS -  Philipp Lahm’s last-gasp goal gave Germany a thrilling 3-2 win over Turkey to book their place in the final of Euro 2008.

Full-back Lahm struck in the final minute to finally end depleted Turkey’s dreams of causing a major upset.

Semih Senturk appeared to have sent the game into extra-time when he equalised four minutes from time only for Lahm to win the game for Germany in the 90th minutes

Turkey took the lead midway through the first half when Ugur Boral scrambled the ball home past Jens Lehmann after Colin Kazim-Richards’s looping effort came back off the crossbar.

The lead proved short-lived as Bastian Schweinsteiger equalised for Germany five minutes later when he cleverly flicked in a cross from Lukas Podolski.

Miroslav Klose gave Germany the lead on 79 minutes when he headed home after a mistake by Turkey goalkeeper Rustu Recber.

Turkey refused to lie down and Semih drew them level when he converted Sabri Sarioglu’s cross at the near post.

The game looked destined to head into extra-time until Lahm played a one-two with Thomas Hitzlsperger to go clear on goal and he kept his cool to drive the ball high past Rustu.

 

My favourite team,Germany lived up to their billing as pre-tournament favourites as they booked a place in the Euro 2008 semi-finals with an impressive 3-2 win over Portugal. I knew the Germany will turn the table after reading their old timer ‘Kaiser’ who was criticized their display in two early group game.

Although the Germans qualified for the quarter-finals as runners-up in Group B following defeat by Croatia, the three-time winners were back to their best in Basel as they proved just too good for the Euro 2004 finalists.

Bastian Schweinsteiger opened the scoring in the 22nd minute on his return from suspension, and the Portuguese were left shell-shocked when the Bayern Munich midfielder laid on a second for Miroslav Klose just four minutes later.

Portugal gave themselves hope four minutes before the break through Nuno Gomes, who became just the third man behind Jurgen Klinsmann and Vladimir Smicer to score in three European Championships.

But Michael Ballack restored Germany’s two-goal lead in the 61st minute from another Schweinsteiger free-kick, and although substitute Helder Postiga pulled another one back for Portugal with three minutes left, Germany held on.

 

Sometime it’s hard to judge the player star status before any major tournament like Euro, World Cup and Copa America. Do you still remember Karel Poborsky, Patrick Berger, Smicer fame rose from nowhere just because the performance in Euro 1996. So do the Roger Milla and Toto Schillaci (at the end of playing career) in World Cup 1990. 

Herewith my prediction in the list of the top 10 future stars (all age below 25 yrs) to watch in this year’s tournament.

1.  

Full name: Fernando Torres

Jersey No.: 9

Team: Spain

Position: Forward

Detailed position: Forward

Date of birth: 20.03.1984

Height: 186 cm

Weight: 78 kg

Club: Liverpool

 

2.

Full name: Bosingwa

Jersey No.: 4

Team: Portugal

Position: Defender

Detailed position: Right back

Date of birth: 24.08.1982

Height: 183 cm

Weight: 75 kg

Club: Porto / Chelsea

 

3.

Full name: Sergio Ramos

Jersey No.: 15

Team: Spain

Position: Defender

Detailed position: Right back, Centre back

Date of birth: 30.03.1986

Height: 183 cm

Weight: 73 kg

Club: Real Madrid

 

4.

Full name: Karim Benzema

Jersey No.: 9

Team: France

Position: Forward

Detailed position: Forward

Date of birth: 19.12.1987

Height: 183 cm

Weight: 73 kg

Club: Lyon

 

5.

Full name: Daniele De Rossi

Jersey No.: 10

Team: Italy

Position: Midfield

Detailed position: Defensive midfielder, Central midfielder

Date of birth: 24.07.1983

Height: 184 cm

Weight: 83 kg

Club: Roma

 

6.

Full name: Philipp Lahm

Jersey No.: 16

Team: Germany

Position: Defender

Detailed position: Right back, Left back

Date of birth: 11.11.1983

Height: 170 cm

Weight: 62 kg

Club: Bayern

 

7.

Full name: Franck Ribéry

Jersey No.: 22

Team: France

Position: Midfield

Detailed position: Right midfielder

Date of birth: 07.04.1983

Height: 173 cm

Weight: 62 kg

Club: Bayern

 

8.

Full name: Samir Nasri

Jersey No.: 11

Team: France

Position: Midfield

Detailed position: Attacking midfielder

Date of birth: 26.06.1987

Height: 175 cm

Weight: 75 kg

Club: Marseille

 

9.

Full name: Hamit Altıntop

Jersey No.: 22

Team: Turkey

Position: Defender

Detailed position: Right back, Right midfielder

Date of birth: 08.12.1982

Height: 183 cm

Weight: 82 kg

Club: Bayern

 

10.

Full name: Cristiano Ronaldo

Jersey No.: 7

Team: Portugal

Position: Forward

Detailed position: Right midfielder, Left midfielder

Date of birth: 05.02.1985

Height: 184 cm

Weight: 78 kg

Club: Man. United

 

 

 

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