World Cup Predictions: World Cup Seeding 2010

Here are the eight groups of four teams each that will have their World Cup soc­cer gear in the 2010 World Cup, and here is the match sched­ule. The top two teams in each group will make it to the Round of 16 on their way towards win­ning the most-important soc­cer tro­phies in the world.

World Cup Predictions

As I have always said, inter­na­tional soc­cer is war by other means. The spoils are the soc­cer gifts of vic­tory and soc­cer goals; the weapons are soc­cer equip­ment; the armor is soc­cer uni­forms, soc­cer shin guards, and soc­cer socks; the enemy bar­racks are soc­cer nets; and the dec­la­ra­tions of war are soc­cer tickets.

World Cup Seed­ing 2010

Here are my FIFA pre­dic­tions of the World Cup foot­ball results (who will win, not whom I want to win):

• Group A — France and South Africa
• Group B — Argentina and Greece
• Group C — USA and England
• Group D — Ger­many and Australia
• Group E — Nether­lands and Denmark
• Group F — Italy and Slovakia
• Group G — Brazil and Portugal
• Group H — Spain and Switzerland

Round of 16:

• France over Greece
• USA over Australia
• Nether­lands over Slovakia
• Brazil over Switzerland
• Argentina over South Africa
• Ger­many over England
• Italy over Denmark
• Spain over Portugal

Quar­ter­fi­nals:

• France over USA
• Brazil over Netherlands
• Argentina over Germany
• Italy over Spain

Semi­fi­nals:

• Brazil over France
• Italy over Argentina

Finals:

• Italy over Brazil

World Cup Blog

Since Israel did not make the cut and few Amer­i­cans care about soc­cer, I will sup­port my third-favorite coun­try: Eng­land — foot­ball was invented by the coun­try! As a alter­nate, I will also root for Argentina since I have a lot of friends from there whom have per­suaded me to hate Brazil. What FIFA pre­dic­tions are you making?