The Official Brazil 2014 World Cup Thread

Of I'm not mistaken. 11 of the US players have dual citenzenship with 5 being born outside the USA.

 

Brazil doesn't look world cup ready. 2 games and none of them really impressed me yet.

Here is my analysis of some of the teams after 1 game (Brazil and Mexico after 2): They are in order of where I Think each team will finish

Group A
Brazil: It's really a one man show with Neymar. The other players are good but none are great, just Neymar
Mexico: The goal keeper was simply amazing, but the team looks good in general, this could be a surprise team here
Croatia: Many picked this team to be an upset over Mexico, the way Mexico played yesterday I don't see it.
Cameroon: Will be last in this group.

Group B
The Netherlands: The win was impressive but Spain looked much worse then Holland looked good (if that makes sense)
Spain: They looked terrible and I wouldn't be surprised if Chile took the 2nd spot in this group. Huge disappointment.
Chile: NA (NA means I didn't watch them)
Australia: NA

Group C
Columbia: I think will top this group, I think this is the hardest group to predict. but I also don't see any of them doing any damage past the next round.
Ivory Coast: NA
Greece: They looked terrible and still have a chance in this group
Japan: NA

Group D
Italy: Unimpressive victory over England, I didn't see anything to get excited about here. Balotelli is going to disappear at some stage and they will be left with no attack, they should still top the group
England: Okay, I support England, but I give you the best losing team of the 1st round of games. Very impressive with the young guns. Sterling looks like the real deal.
Costa Rica: WOW WOW WOW, They could take on England for the 2nd spot because they were simply amazing in that 1st game can it spill over to game 2 and 3 is the question
Uruguay: Along with Spain's loss this was the 2nd most disappointing team of the 1st set of games, maybe Suarez will provide a jolt of energy in game 2 vs. England

Group E
Switzerland: To me this is Swiss team is the best its ever had, I can see them going to the Quarters, maybe Semis. Very good team, especially the way they played in the 2nd half of game 1.
France: I didn't see the French keeper, that is how bad Honduras was!
Ecuador: Good team and depending on France they could trouble them for the 2nd spot, but highly unlikely
Honduras: This was the 2nd worst team at the world cup.

Group F
Argentina: This group is pathetic, if Argentina can't top this group don't expect them to go far.
Bosnia Herzegovina: They are the 2nd best team in this group.
Nigeria: don't understand why they didn't beat Iran, they should have finished them off, but couldn't
Iran: forget about it

Group G
Germany: Along with Holland, they were the best team of the opening round
USA: Yeah I am picking them to move past Portugal. They looked good but suffered some injuries which could trouble them past the 2nd round
Portugal: If they play like they did against 80% of the other teams in this tournament they would have won the game with 10 players. Too bad it was against Germany
Ghana: I feel sorry for this team, it quite possibly is the best African country yet they are in this group!

Group H
Belgium: The surprise team and along with the Swiss the team that could do some damage in this tournament
Korea: NA
Russia: NA
Algeria: So if Honduras was the 2nd worst team in the 1st game, who was the 2nd. yup Algeria!!!!!!! terrible

 

Great game by the aussies