World Cup- who are you going to root for?

yo'ma

Sat, Jun 07 2014, 7:06 pm

Someone asked me if I was going to root for the US or Argentina. At first I said I couldn't care less, but than I said I don't want Argentina to win because if they do, they will act absolutely nuts. As it is when they win a regular game, they act crazy, but a world cup, oy!!

What about you?

sequoia

Sat, Jun 07 2014, 8:45 pm

Since neither Ukraine nor Israel qualified, USA.

Mrs Bissli

Sun, Jun 22 2014, 12:06 pm

The opening odds were as follows:

Brazil 3/1
Argentina 9/2
Germany 11/2
Spain 6/1 (well they're already out...)
14/1 Belgium
20/1 France
25/1 Columbia, Italy, Portugal
28/1 Holland (seems like they're doing better than expected), England (no comments), Uruguay
66/1 Russia
100/1 Switzerland
USA is all the way down 150/1 but still above Australia soccoroos at 750/1.

Raisin

Sun, Jun 22 2014, 12:17 pm

since I could care less if any of the likely winners win, I'll hope for the minute extremely unlikely but still just about possible chance of the UK winning.

yo'ma

Sun, Jun 22 2014, 1:13 pm

Raisin wrote:

since I could care less if any of the likely winners win, I'll hope for the minute extremely unlikely but still just about possible chance of the UK winning.

More than extremely unlikely because they're already out.

rachel91

Sun, Jun 22 2014, 2:26 pm

Germany or Russia.

( Eventhough I know, that Germany maybe has a chance of winning this and Russia certainly doesn't)

Bruria

Sun, Jun 22 2014, 5:46 pm

Nice to know there are other frum women who are soccer fans besides me!

yo'ma

Tue, Jul 01 2014, 3:43 pm

USA is out! My kids are so upset. They're happy Argentina won, though. If the US won, they would have played against Argentina next and they weren't sure about who they would want to win. Now they don't have to worry. I feel a little bad what the other kids are going to say to them in school tomorrow.

ven

Tue, Jul 01 2014, 4:23 pm

yessssss belgie conquered the usa ! what a game tssssss Tongue Out

chocolate chips

Tue, Jul 01 2014, 5:07 pm

So far all the teams I would root for are out (england spain usa lol) so I am basically rooting for whoever is winning after half time LOL

Mrs Bissli

Wed, Jul 02 2014, 3:42 pm

Did anyone watch that Argentina v Swiss match yesterday? Boy that was painful to watch. Though I'm actually quite surprised how Swiss made it to knockouts. The next biggie here is Friday's Germany v France match--would Merkel show up again? (though I'm convinced it was her look-alike at that Portugal match).

Bruria

Wed, Jul 02 2014, 5:15 pm

Who is making Shabbat food Thursday ? There are matches this Friday! That's my plan Very Happy

Mrs Bissli

Tue, Jul 08 2014, 4:28 pm

Good Grief!! 7-1!?!?!? I suspected Brazil is against the odds without Neymar and Silva but this is shocking.

yo'ma

Tue, Jul 08 2014, 6:05 pm

My kids were so excited Brazil lost. Tomorrow is a big game here and everything is closed because it's Independence Day. Perfect timing.

Bruria

Tue, Jul 08 2014, 7:28 pm

The brazilian team was really emotionally unstable without Thiago Silva and Neymar. Thiago is captain of the team, so without him everything was really disorganized. And Neymar could have become paralyzed, so I think this caused a big impact on the team.
But we have to admit that Germany played fantastically, they were amazing in the field!

mandr

Tue, Jul 08 2014, 7:48 pm

My son was rooting for Neymar (he even styled his hair for the pose):

rachel91

Tue, Jul 08 2014, 10:59 pm

Germany is going to win this!

DrMom

Wed, Jul 09 2014, 12:32 am

I could not possibly are any less about the Mundial than I already do.

Unless any teams are planning on donating their prize $ to help Arabs kill Jews:

[The Algerian team donated their prize $ to Gaza, which seems to use all donation to build rockets instead of taking care of their citizens.]

In which case, I am rooting against those teams.

http://www.jpost.com/Middle-Ea.....61345

rainbow dash

Wed, Jul 09 2014, 12:48 am

GO NEDERLANDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!