For all of you around the world who heard a very loud scream emanating from the general direction of Phoenix, Arizona at around 12:00 PM EST, I apologize. I’m pretty sure it won’t happen again (though it would be nice).
Sorry About the Noise
June 23rd, 2010 · 6 Comments
Tags: Soccer!! · South Africa 2010 · Uncategorized
6 responses so far ↓
1 DSMok1 // Jun 23, 2010 at 9:09 am
The office was all abuzz here.
2 Gold Star for Robot Boy // Jun 23, 2010 at 10:09 am
Dude, ya shoulda been at Four Peaks! I was screaming my head off there, and I fit right in!
3 Daniel // Jun 23, 2010 at 11:29 pm
South Korea, Uruguay, USA and Ghana: One of these countries will be at the SEMI-FINAL. Is this the chance for Uruguay to recover its tradition and
play a semi-final after 56 years???
4 Sancho // Jun 24, 2010 at 6:28 pm
Congratulations, Vörös! Amazing how this USA MNT is mature. Great chances to advance further.
P.S.: Daniel, I know it’s early to cry “Victory”, but I can’t help myself on wondering where could be so far our beloved eurocentric friend Mitz…
5 dorian // Jun 25, 2010 at 3:44 pm
Where’s Europe?
Recapping confederation success at making it out of the group phase:
– S. America: 5 out of 5 (4 first place)
– Europe: 6 out of 13 (3 first place)
– N. America: 2 out of 3 (1 first place)
– Asia: 2 out of 4
– Africa: 1 out of 6
– Oceania: 0 out of 1
Then, what’s really interesting is that all six European teams play each other in the round of 16, so there will be exactly 3 of them in the quarterfinals.
I wonder if there’s ever been a prior world cup where Europe had less than half the teams in the quarterfinals! I suspect that Europe typically has 5 or 6 of the eight quarterfinalists — would be interesting to see if anyone had this data available.
6 ilias // Jun 25, 2010 at 11:52 pm
It is the first time that Europe has less than 4 teams in the 1/4 finals.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_team_appearances_in_the_FIFA_World_Cup#Results_by_confederation
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