New poll for the Fifa World Cup


Fifa World Cup 2006  

129 members have voted

  1. 1. Which country shall take the Cup?

    • France
      25
    • Germany
      41
    • Italy
      37
    • Portugal
      26


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All right. Now that the semi-finals teams have been listed, which team do you think is going to take it this year? For starters, I guess Neowin should change or remove the "Supporting England", now that they're out! :p

Anyway, my prediction is that France is going to get it, seeing how they were able to beat the defending champions (Brazil)! ;)

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Italy have been an average side and have had luck and bad refereeing decisions on their side. France were terrible in the group stages and therefore don't deserve the cup. As for Portugal, I think their players have been even more theatrical than the Italians and Dutch, which is hard to beat.

Its got to be Germany for me. They have won every game because they are organized, strong and passionate, and they deserve it for that. :)

I don't think Germany are as certian to win as people think, they've only played two good teams...sweden who didn't put up any fight at all and Argentina which was a close call. I think they have also had many lucky calls from the referee too, they will find the Italian defence difficult to break down and may have peaked too soon. Being the home team is a very powerfull advantage though, we'll see soon enough :)

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