Welcome to group C.

Pie1ect and I will give you finish here.

I bet it you don't need to listen to Larry Izamoje, Feyi Ogunduyile etc.

We will give you all that is needed.

You will read what you never know about Messi, Drogba,Van Nilsteroy,Crespo, Boateng etc

These is the group:

ARGENTINA,
HOLLAND,
SERBIA & M and
IVORY COAST.

Welcome on board.

You didn't mention Inter Milan's crazy midfielder Dejan Stankovic!

Yeah right Akola, !
just look at the kind of juicy team u selected for urself, !!
I no gree o!!
well just joking, i'll get to work already,

What group d'u belong to Grizzly?

@Grizzzly

Not at all.

I actually want a group with an African side.

I dont want Brazil and France to win it.

Yeah right,

Spike, Group G,

Okay, waiting for you to come up with your thang!

Am feeling Argentina and Holland might reach the 1/4 s.
Good luck Ivy Coast
Wonder kid Messi and Riquelme are a nightmare to my Brazil. hope they dont meet in finals.

hmmmn.

Serbia and Montenegro are also a tough side,
do u know they conceeded just a single goal throughout their qualifiers, !!!
thats simply scary,

Few of the stars to watch out for:

more:

Watch out for this:

Messi & Drogba ( Both good players but good divers)


Crespo & Drogba ( Chelsea strike patner but now Enemies)

;d

i learnt dat didier drogba is the minister for offside affairs, true?

FIXTURES

Match 1 : Argentina vs Ivory Coast

Match 2 : Serbia Vs Holland

Match 3 : Argentina Vs Serbia

Match 4 : Holland Vs Ivory coast

Match 5 : Holland Vs Argentina

Match 6 : Ivory Coast Vs Serbia

COUNTRIES FACT FILE

Country Name: Serbia & M

Country Population: 10.5m

Wonderful performance in the qualifiers.

Team Captain: Mladen Krstajic( Shalke 04 Germany)

World Cup appearance: None due to break-away from Yugoslavia.

Star Man : Nikola Zigic ( world tallest footballer)

Extra

Do you know that Manchester United 's Vidic has a webbed foot with two toes welded together.

2) IVORY COAST

Team captain : Didier Drogba

Country Population: 17.1 millon

Coach: Henry Mitchell [who took over in 2004]

World Cup appearance: None ( In fact only became African Champion once in 1992)

Other notable players include Arsenal pair of Ebuoe and Toure.

Latest result: Ivory coast 3 vs Slovenia 0 [ two goals from Drogba]

HOLLAND

Poularly called "The Orange boys"

Poulation : 16.3 million

The country of the Van(s)

Van Bronckhorst( Barcelona)

Van Persie (Arsenal F.C)

Van Nilsteroy (Manchester United)

Van Der Sar (Manchester United ) & Team Captain

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Did you know that :

1) Van Der Sar is a friend to our own King Kanu, they were both together in that Ajax team that conquer Europe in 1995.

2) Sex is legalised in Holland

3) Nigeria's most successful Coach in Clemence Westerhof is from Holland.

ARGENTINA

CAPITAL : Buenos Aires

Population :39.3 million

Coach: Jose Pekerman

World Cup Appearance: Champions in 1978 and 1986, Runners-up in 1930 & 1990

Star Player: Juan Roman Riquelme( Villarea) Too many Stars but this man stand out.

Quote

Drogba is a great player, he is showing that all the time. Marking him is based on a lot on concentration and positioning we have to have.
He waits for diagonal pass or lurks behind the back of the central defender furtherest from the ball.


by Gabriel Heinze ( Manchester United & Argentina) who has played against Didier in french league and premiership.

That group is indeed a group of death for the Ivoriens!

Funny enough, Argentina might not go beyond the Group Stages!

Argentina will claim this group and they are the only team i know that can stop Brazil.
If Argentina can get above the under-currents and self-destruct phenomenom that always kills the team spirit they can reach the finals.
With Gabriel Heinze, Messi, Aimar and Tevez-these bunch of boys will light up the event.

Holland should produce good football as well. Robben,Van Persie and Van Nistelrooy(Goal-Machine) will kill teams off easily.
Van Basten, just like most Dutch Managers is a manager that has a flair for attacking football.
I think this group is a group of Death and Cote D'Ivorie simply has no chance.
Toure and Eboue will be used and abused by monsters like Robben,Van Persie, Crespo and Van Nistelrooy.

really a group of death

the ivorians have a good team but a crazy keeper hope he stays steady
tha argentines will come out with force to win this group but they wont
holland lots of good players but aw far wud they go
serbia and montenegro hope they win a match





i tip tha ivorians and the argentines

If the Ivorians can get a draw or win against Argies, they will qualify, if not, they may be heading towards Abidjan.

I am abit upset.
How could Ivy Coast draw with those sharp homo erectus'es?
Bonny Kalou,Romaric Ndri,DD,Eboue,Toure,Zokora wow.-good boys.
Solomon Kalou! what happened with his citizenship? He wants to be adopted ke

His name is MESSI.

18 years old Whizkid, who plays for Barcelona of Spain.

#He diplays lethal pace, brillant close control, incisive passing and an eye for goal.#

#He scored his first international goal in the 3-2 friendly defeat by Croatia in Bassel#

# He has a buy-out clause of £100m [probably the only footbller with such in the World.#

# Best Player and highest goal scorer in the last World Youth Tournament in Holland #

i believe ivory coast will go further in the world cup more than anypther west african side

nothin for the ivorians. they cant even beat any team in this group

who is gonna come out of this group "ALIVE"


i really wonder


i tip the orange boys and the south americans to go thru

Dats why dis group is d group of death. U cant predict who goes tru.

Breakn news: serbian n M, d coachs' son pulls out because of claims of favouratism. He didnt take part in d qualifyn and he was pickd in d squad 4 d world cup.

I must aplogise Akolawole, for not responding on this thread earlier than this. I haven't been too frequent on here lately and I've just come across this thread.

Thanks for your choice of teams, BTW - Makes it a whole lot easier to analyse.

Anyways, let me start with Argentina.

Complete Squad list:

1 ABBONDANZIERI Roberto (GK)
2 AYALA Roberto
3 SORIN Juan
4 COLOCCINI Fabricio
5 CAMBIASSO Esteban
6 HEINZE Gabriel
7 SAVIOLA Javier
8 MASCHERANO Javier
9 CRESPO Hernan
10 RIQUELME Juan
11 TEVEZ Carlos
12 FRANCO Leonardo (GK)
13 SCALONI Lionel
14 PALACIO Rodrigo
15 MILITO Gabriel
16 AIMAR Pablo
17 CUFRE Leandro
18 RODRIGUEZ Maxi
19 MESSI Lionel
20 CRUZ Julio
21 BURDISSO Nicolas
22 GONZALEZ Luis
23 USTARI Oscar (GK)
_{Source: FIFA}

This looks like a squad of potential World Cup wiiners to me. If I was to choose a formation for these guys, I'd go with a 3-3-1-3 (which could actually be a 3-4-3) formation.

That'd have:

Defenders : Collocini Milito/Ayala Heinze
Midfielders: Rodriguez Mascherano Sorin
Riquelme
Attackers: Messi Crespo Tevez

Subs: Cruz, Aimar, Milito, Gonzalez, Cambiasso and Saviola.

Given the fact that Argentina have the best midfeild [in terms of passing the ball around], this team would be too hot to handle.

The only downside for me and something I can not understand, is Pekerman's decision to leave out Zanetti. That guy deserves to be there more than anyone else.