Mine is Italy all the way.
Funny enough, the term soccer is an English term, not American. It's derived from the term "Association Football" or Socca as it was abbreviated at some point in the 1880's. Back then there were two sports that had to be classified, they were called Rugby Football, and Association Football. The Brits are the ones who created the term "soccer" to denote Association Football. Then they realized they easily could have just changed Rugby Football to "Rugby" and not had to form some new word to clarify which sport was being discussed.
Also, the magazine "World Soccer" is published in the UK, and is one of the foremost football publications in the world.
The Australian National team is also called the Socceroos.
You know, just as a little bit of history for those of you who have an uneducated understanding of the history of the game.
why do ppl think Italy is gonna win! nooooo...and to the irishman that said about Frenchies dying in the plane crash...lets go to a pub and grab a beer..I like you my friend. I visited France several times and they ****ed me off good everytime.
I think some people pick Italy because they won last time and they dont know anything about soccer![]()
I believe Italy could be safe bet, Italy haven't got the most talented side, but no other team works better as a team, with the Italians you can see that they pick there players based on who can play the role, unlike England and other teams who pick players based on reputation, these players are usually used to playing a certain role for there club teams, but when asked to play nationally they have to play a completely different role than they are used to, these are top players, but sometimes you have to drop them for someone who may not be the most gifted player but can play the role better. Also every world cup winning team has had a holding midfield player, Italy has the best one in the world in De Rossi. So I'm backing Italy to throw up a surprise.![]()
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