Top 5

The Top 5 Things Learned From The Pre­vi­ous Round of WC Qualifying:

Ghana on the brink

The Black Stars could be out of qual­i­fy­ing. In Group 5 of Round 2 WC African Qual­i­fy­ing, Ghana sits in 3^rd place behind 1^st place Libya and 2^nd place Gabon only trail­ing Gabon on goal dif­fer­en­tial. Their tal­is­man Michael Essien is out for that last cru­cial match vs. Lesotho and they will have to pro­duce at least a 3 goal vic­tory mar­gin in that game to have a shot of advanc­ing to the next stage. Let’s hope they go through cause they are arguably the most tal­ented team in Africa and fun to watch.

Domenech as to go

Why does this man still have employ­ment? What has he done to earn his con­tin­ued place as national team coach of France? Let’s see. France looked hor­ri­ble in Euro 2008, they have been erratic at best in matches fol­low­ing the Zidane embar­rass­ment of the ’06 WC Final. He’s con­sis­tently left off the team arguably the best French striker right now in David Trezeguet decid­ing on Nico­las Anelka instead and they just got whipped 3–1 by AUSTRIA. With all the tal­ent France has they should not be los­ing to AUSTRIA Les Bleus need to bring back Aime Jacquet.

Paraguay is the best team in South Amer­ica, right now

La Albir­roja has been the most con­sis­tent team in FIFA’s tough­est qual­i­fy­ing region. Paraguay has 5 play­ers that have scored at least 2 goals mean­ing that there isn’t one per­son to key on. That makes them more dan­ger­ous offen­sively than sup­pos­edly more dan­ger­ous offen­sive sides like Brazil and Argentina. By the way, results vs. South America’s 2 Giants: 1–1 draw vs. Argentina in Buenos Aires and a 2–0 win vs. Brazil in Asun­cion. Impres­sive, if Paraguay’s key play­ers can avoid injury over the next months, Paraguay will not only make it to The Great Tour­na­ment but will be a seri­ous con­tender for the title.

No Caribbean Rid­dims in South Africa

This one hurts the most because of my roots in the Caribbean and my desire to see a Caribbean nation progress deep into the World Cup. Unfor­tu­nately, it doesn’t look good for the Caribbean nations in CONCACAF. The Caribbean Cham­pi­ons, Haiti have 1 point after 3 matches and a –7 goal dif­fer­en­tial and trag­i­cally a lot more on their minds than foot­ball. Jamaica just fired its coach after only 1 point and a –6 goal dif­fer­en­tial. Cuba has 0 points. Trinidad & Tobago are the last hope. The Soca War­riors have 4 points and are tied with Guatemala for 2^nd in Group 1. I think us Caribbean folk will have to wait till Brazil 2014. At least we got Usain Bolt.

Sepp Blat­ter is the SHIZZLE!!!!

FIFA Pres­i­dent, Sepp Blat­ter announced that all work­ers would get two free tick­ets to a WC match at the sta­dium they are work­ing on.  That is FREAKING SWEEET!!! (To quote Peter Grif­fin).  If I didn’t have a job, I would find my way to South Africa and get me a job at Ellis Park or any of those sta­di­ums.  I can install the toi­lets for all I care.  I will deal with sewage pipes for some free WC tickets.

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