World Cup Review
July 22nd, 2010 by adminThe World Cup is over, and the countdown to Brazil 2014 has already started, but before pointing all the focus back to the domestic leagues, here’s a good opportunity to take a look back on what the experts, aka us, thought and predicted before the start of the biggest sport event on the planet in our World Cup guide:
Let’s start from the top, and Spain were indeed our pick to win it all, although we got some of their rivals wrong along the way, as the following direct quote from our article, dated early June, shows: “1st in Group H. World Champions (beat Portugal in the last 16, Italy in the quarters, Argentina in the semis and Brazil in the finals)”. They did top group H, and beat Portugal in the round of 16, but we didn’t predict Germany’s run, neither did we think that the Netherlands could pull off a shock result against Brazil, despite giving coach Van Marwijk a lot of credit in our article: “Coach Van Marwijk may not be a big name, but he’s doing a fine job sustaining the peace and quiet, and the Orangemen will once again begin their World Cup tournament with high expectations”. All in all a nice job, don’t you think? Read More »