[FIFA] World Cup 2018 in Russia Thread

I just did a draw that had Group A as: Russia, Peru, Iceland, South Korea. That's got to be the worst group ever, woof.

 

EDIT...just noticed the post with the seeding from yesterday. Why am I surprised Poland is in Pot 1?

 

So I get to root for:

Poland
Argentina
Costa Rica
Whoever is playing Mexico
Whoever is playing Russia

That'll work.

 

For the handful of you guys that follow the MLS there will be some familiar faces. Adolfo Machado plays for the Dynamo, Armando Cooper for Toronto, Michael Amir Murillo and Fidel Escobar play for the Red Bulls, Miguel Camargo plays for NYC, Anibal Godoy plays for San Jose and of course Roman Torres plays for Seattle. Other guys with notable MLS experience who'll go to Russia include Alberto Quintero who played for San Jose last year, Blas Perez played for Dallas and then Vancouver for four years, and Jaime Penedo who played for the Galaxy for a couple of years.

Very, very few of these guys ever go to Europe, and when they do they seldom play in a high profile league never mind play for a high profile team. Penedo plays in Romania at the moment, Gaby Torres in Switzerland. Otherwise it's a few guys here and there in places like Slovakia and second division teams in Spain and Portugal. It's probably been twenty years since Panama had a consistent contributor on a team in La Liga.

 

How can you not like The Little Pea and Chucky Lozano?!?!

 

Portugal had one of the easiest paths to a title ever in 2016 and barely won each game, feel like this was a total fluke.

Definitely not a real contender imo.

 

Yeah, that was maybe the most ridiculous and worst flukes I've ever seen in sports

 

They only way England get any where close to another final is if they host it again..

 

This was supposed to be their World Cup before Russia stole it.

 

Tomorrow ****'s getting real. Did this simulator a couple of times, this is the best that came up...

 

Dat Group H doe.

 

Main reason why I thought this was the best...

 

( December 1 ) Draw is tomorrow.

Found the BANDWAGON fan.

 

Those are all places I love and have spent time. I love the country of Mexico, I despise that soccer team.

Yes, I will bandwagon against El Tri for as long as I care about futbol.

 

Yep, I tend to root for countries I’ve enjoyed visiting, too, except for El Tri. I can’t bring myself to do it.

I’ll be pulling for Iceland.

 

I tried the draw simulator several times, never produced a group with the USA in it. Can anybody tell me why?

 

So draw is in a few hours, just did the first simulation:

Ended up with a Group E of death, consisting of Argentina, Spain, Sweden and Saudi Arabia.Group F is also beasting with Germany, Uruguay, Tunisia, Serbia.
Group G Portugal, Colombia, Denmark, Panama.