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HOW THE TEAMS FINISHED
&
ODDS PRIOR TO STARTING
01) - Spain - 4/1 (+400)
Winner
02) - Brazil - 9/2 (+450)
Quarter Final
03) - Argentina - 6/1 (+600)
Quarter Final
04) England - 7/1 (+700)
Quarter Final
05) - Netherlands - 10/1 (+1000)
Final
06) - Germany - 14/1 (+1400)
Semi Final
07) - Italy - 16/1 (+1600)
Group stage elimination
08) - France - 20/1 (+2000)
Group stage elimination
09) Portugal - 22/1 (+2200)
Quarter Final
10) -Ivory Coast - 50/1 (+5000)
Group elimination
11) -Serbia - 50/1 (+5000)
Group elimination
12) - Chile - 50/1 (+5000)
Quarter Final
13) -USA - 66/1 (+6600)
Round of 16
14) - Uruguay - 66/1 (+6600)
Semi Final
15) - Paraguay - 66/1 (+6600)
Quarter Final
16) - Cameroon - 80/1 (+8000)
Group elimination
17) - Ghana - 80/1 (+8000)
Quarter Final
18) - Mexico - 80/1 (+8000)
Round of 16
19)- Denmark - 100/1 (+10000)
Round of 16
20) - Nigeria - 125/1 (+12500)
Group elimination
21) - South Korea -125/1 (+12500)
Group elimination
22) - South Africa -150/1 (+15000)
Group elimination
23) - Australia - 150/1 (+15000)
Group elimination
24) - Greece - 200/1 (+20000)
Group elimination
25) - Switzerland - 200/1 (+20000)
Group elimination
26) - Japan - 250/1 (+25000)
Round of 16
27) - Slovakia - 250/1 (+25000)
Group elimination
28) - Slovenia - 250/1 (+25000)
Group elimination
29) - Honduras - 500/1 (+50000)
Group elimination
30) - Algeria - 500/1 (+50000)
Group elimination
31) - N. Korea - 1000/1 (+100000)
Group elimination
32) - N-Zealand -2000/1 (+200000)
Group elimination
All odds taken from Ladbrokes.com
NB.
Mexico, Denmark, and Japan did better than this
poll forecasted while Ghana went beyond
expectations Brazil Argentina and England were the
biggest disappointments.
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Looking ahead to Brazil
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T
her
e is no doubt that the 2014 FIFA World
Cup in Brazil will be a big
Samba Party.
But, as
both the world’s most popular, and the most
successful team in football, the Samba Boys
from Brazil will have to deliver no less than the
FIFA World Cup in front of their home crowd.
Though it is unusual for an unprecedented five
time winner of the biggest sporting tournament in
the world to be associated with disappointments,
Brazil has lost at the quarter final stages in its
last two World Cup tournaments.
They had set the bar high, not only with their
accomplishments, but by the standard for which
the game is supposed to be played.
The crude reality is that Brazil is struggling to
find a rhythm to its football, and with pride very
much a factor in the hosting of the tournament,
only time would tell if Brazil can win its sixth
World Cup at home in 2014.
However before the ball is kicked the stadiums
has to be renovated, built and completed in time
for FIFA ‘s field inspection deadline date.
A
s the defending World Cup champions at
Germany 2006, Brazil struggled to keep up with
the wizardry of Zinedine Zidane, Thierry Henry,
and Patrick Vieira in their 1-0 quarter final loss.
In 2010 they fail to handle Netherlands after
becoming unglued in the second half with a lead
In 2014, Brazil has to at least advance to the final
four where momentum could somehow get them
back to the podium. In the
meantime, Brazil will have to start playing the