World Cup Thread

[Messinterista]

Yeah but they didn't see eye to eye.

[Oram]

[Messinterista]

[San Paolo]

[moris.green]

Italy will not be able to win this World Cup this time .Sorry to say that Lippi have left some excellent players .Most of the players may not have enough experience to win this Cup.









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[Messinterista]

[Messinterista]

[San Paolo]

[RomaShield27]

[RomaShield27]

The Average Age Of All World Cup Squads
– June 2nd, 2010 | by: chris

Perusing the Italian squad earlier, I noticed something odd: people in their early 20’s. In fact there were 7 – seven! – players 25 or under in Marcello Lippi’s squad, which made me think perhaps this Italy squad was, dare I say, young (comparison and all that). Therefore I hacked out the average age of the Azzurri and came up with 28.2, which meant nothing aside from I could convince myself this team still wasn’t that old (having no comparison this time) for the time being.

31 teams and a lot of yelling at Pim Verbeek later, we have the average age of every team at the World Cup and Italy isn’t the oldest, but a team coached by an Italian is…

Just cannot win.

Group A
France: 27.4
Mexico: 27.1
South Africa: 26.9
Uruguay: 26.7
Group B
Argentina: 27.1
Greece: 27.7
Nigeria: 27.7
South Korea: 27.1
Group C
Algeria: 27.2
England: 28.7
Slovenia: 26.7
USA: 26.9
Group D
Australia: *
Germany: 25.0
Ghana: 24.1
Serbia: 26.0
Group E
Cameroon: 25.2
Denmark: 27.7
Japan: 27.8
Netherlands: 27.7
Group F
Italy: 28.2
New Zealand: 27.3
Paraguay:28.1
Slovakia: 26.1
Group G
Brazil: 28.6
Ivory Coast: 26.7
North Korea: 24.8
Portugal: 27.7
Group H
Chile: 25.9
Honduras: 28.1
Spain: 25.9
Switzerland: 26.7

* – At this point, several hours after the FIFA deadline, Pim Verbeek hasn’t omitted anyone and is trying to sneak one past by bringing through a suspiciously large squad of 23. Either that or he doesn’t care about the people calculating meaningless statistics.
And now the important part: all 32, from youngest (best) to oldest (less best).

Ghana – 24.1
North Korea – 24.8
Germany – 25.0
Cameroon – 25.2
Spain – 25.9
Chile – 25.9
Serbia – 26.0
Slovakia – 26.1
Switzerland – 26.7
Ivory Coast – 26.7
Uruguay – 26.7
Slovenia – 26.7
South Africa – 26.9
USA – 26.9
Mexico – 27.1
Argentina – 27.1
South Korea – 27.1
Algeria – 27.2
New Zealand – 27.3
France – 27.4
Greece – 27.7
Nigeria – 27.7
Denmark – 27.7
Netherlands – 27.7
Portugal – 27.7
Japan – 27.8
Honduras – 28.1
Paraguay – 28.1
Italy – 28.2
Brazil – 28.6
England – 28.7

[San Paolo]

[juventino_italiano]

[Messinterista]

[RomaShield27]

Useful link to all WC squads: http://world-cup.irishtimes.com/?mi=1&m ... &teid=3622




lol, I just seen this and I had to laugh. Its quite funny. It will be even funnier when they fail to even qualify from the group.

[San Paolo]

haha only North Korea could do this

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010 ... per-gamble

[juventino_italiano]

[Carlo Romano]

[RomaShield27]

[RomaShield27]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/footbal ... 730975.stm

[RomaShield27]

Professor says World Cup trophy cannot be solid gold
Page last updated at 15:34 GMT, Saturday, 12 June 2010 16:34 UK
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/africa/10301713.stm

A British chemistry professor has calculated that if the World Cup trophy was really solid gold it would be too heavy for footballers to lift. Martyn Poliakoff of Nottingham University estimates that a solid gold trophy of its size - 36cm (14 in) high - would weigh at least 70kg (154lb).

He concludes that the trophy, or at least part of it, must be hollow. Fifa insisted that the metal part of the current trophy, which dates back to 1974, was "solid gold".

It told the BBC News website the prize weighed 6.175kg, including 4.9kg of "solid 18-carat gold" and two layers of the semi-precious stone malachite.

Nobody wins the coveted trophy outright as Fifa retains possession between tournaments, awarding a gold-plated replica to each World Cup champion.

Making his case on the university's Periodic Table of Videos website, Professor Poliakoff said a genuinely solid gold cup of this height would be "as much as the weight of quite a large adult".

I don't think that it would be light enough for people to wave above their heads


"Gold is very heavy, it's one of the densest metals that there is," he said.

"According to my calculations, if it was solid all the way through, it would have somewhere between 70 and 80kg of gold in it."

The professor suggested the term "solid gold" might mean "the metal part is gold all the way through - it isn't that there is a thin layer of gold and the rest is steel, for example".

"However, I think - and I have no means of knowing - that perhaps the ball at the top, which is the world, is probably hollow... because I don't think that it would be light enough for people to wave above their heads, and also it would be a big waste of gold."