Few years ago there were at least three players better than Messi, though it's true that he's currently the best, he won award for it the last year, and I'm sure he'll repeat the same thing this year.
As for France, I ****ing hate those bastards, just the team not the entire nation. The way they passed Ireland in qualification is a ****ing disgrace, so I hope they'll be out of this competition really soon, I even put some money on Uruguay today.
I think this world Cup will be full of surprises, there were a lot of injuries during the friendly matches, some of the key players are out, not to mention the weird choices some of the coaches made while assembling their team, primarily Dunga and Maradona, I'm not thrilled with the way Brazil plays, there's no more beauty in their style which was their signature, they're starting to resemble Italy. Speaking of Italy, I highly doubt they'll defend the tittle, though Lippi's an old fox so everything's possible. Argentina has the best team right after the Spain, though they have a weird and inexperienced coach which makes me doubt in their success.
Spain is my favorite for wining this thing, they look amazing, have great team both the first eleven and those on the bench. How strong they are best shows the fact that their bench makes better team than let's say Portugal or even France. England is a great team as always, but a cursed one at least when it comes to the big competitions. Capello's still one of the best coaches out there if not the best so I think they'll make a difference this time, they humiliated us in this qualification and anything beside the tittle will be huge disappointment for me. As for the rest, Ivory Coast has the ability to surprise us all, maybe even Portugal, Holland's always been an unlucky team so it would be great if that would change for once.
I myself don't support anyone in particular, my nation failed to qualify on this competition so it won't be same without them, though I would love if an outsider would manage to accomplish something like Greece did on European Cup 2004. But if I'll have to support someone it would definitely be Denmark.
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