An excellent schedule of when the games are played can be found here.

I'm just wondering if anyone here will be watching/rooting for a particular team? Any predictions on the winner?

Here's mine. No bashing please, a Korean can't dream?

I plan on watching what I can, but I don't cheer for any particular team.

I'm more of an ice-hockey person (if somebody wonders why, look left for my location), but in this World Cup I'm rooting for New Zealand. I don't predict they will win though.

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Go Portugal!
I don't expect them to win, though.

Edit: Nice calendar, btw.

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I wonder if the US will ever be good at the sport being played in the World Cup...

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Soccer bores me. Fortunately, I'm in France, where the national team looks like they won't make it past the first round, so things will calm down quickly (aside from the recriminations, blaming the coach for the fact that the team sucks).

Nevertheless, I'll probably watch the final at least... My son's due back from school at the end of the month, and he'll probably want to watch the last few games.

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It's odd, because so many kids in the US play soccer. There are a fair number of Americans who play internationally, I'm told.

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What's your definition of good? They are coming in considered the 14th best team in FIFA standings. I think that's fairly decent. It will take a long time to build up a base with how much other sports are popular here.

I can't figure out how North Korea gets in with a ranking of 105.

Doesn't it have something to do with a certain number of teams getting selected per region? That's why, as I understand, there aren't more European or South American teams. Kind of fair, when you consider, letting the smaller countries play.

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Yeah, it's more obvious when you see the group North Korea played in.

http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/preliminar ... index.html

Not exactly powerhouses of soccer.

I am a huge football fan. Of course, I will support the U.S., but my real team is Holland. I really hope they can win it this year.

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An interesting video I saw on the US's "Project 2010" for this WC which gives me some hope for them this year:

I'm going with Argentina. Why not?

Solomon, I see you took USA to take first in Group C, essentially picking us to beat England on Saturday. Bold! I like it.

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Not as bold as picking South Africa to advance and his dream South Korea picks. But hey, anyone who picks my Dutch to beat Brazil is ok by me!

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Here in germany soccer is THE sport - so ofc I'm going to watch
I think the USA - Soccer team isn't as bad as most of you think, I think we'll see some surprises.
My personal predition isnt completely ready yet, I'll think about it tomorrow.
But I think the german team is able to make it into the halffinal, even if many top players are dropping out because of injury

P.S.: Sol I really like your prediction *g

I honestly don't care who wins. I just want GOOD games.

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I think England or Holland will win the cup – they're strong this year! I really hope that Côte d'Ivoire will survive the group stage, because they do have some top players, but due to bad luck ended up in the strongest group again! And of course Germany absolutely has to reach at least the semifinals ... or I'll lose my 10€ bet against a friend of mine Also, I obviously want them to win, but I don't have much confidence in them

A remarkable prediction. It is a tough group, Mexico and Uruguay are decent teams (both in top 20), and the home ground advantage may help South Africa enough to overcome the fact that they're not really strong enough to be there, but France are still the dominant favourites to win the group. I will be astonished if they don't make it.

They lost to China the other day...

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Switzerland has won the U17 Worldcup last year, so they might be ready to win the Worldcup in 2014... I like very much the spanish team, they won against Poland two days ago with 6-0! I hope we will see many goals!