User talk:GopalSingh

Can the country Tango beat the street samba this year ?

Germany 2006 is getting kicked off on 9th June 2006 and as always, the favourites to win this years Football world Cup are the Brazilians. Brazil has created such an impression in the minds of the people around the world, that they are automatically regarded as the World Cup champions by more than half of the world population. With the likes of Ronaldinho, Adriano, Kaka, Ronaldo and others, they are considered to be a formidable squad. But, I wonder whether these boys are as good a team together as they are individually.

Football as we know is a team sports, unless you have the likes of Maradonna who can make an entire game, a one man show. And unfortunately, Brazilians don't have anyone like him. Ronaldo, has not been able to show good performance and is too popular in his squad. Ronaldinho is a lone ranger who would not be able to do much damage.I don't think he would be able to coordinate with Kaka but I think each of them will try to out perform each other causing confusion and chaos among the team. Roberto Carlos and Cafu have a lot of experience but they are now more than 30 year old. Will they be able to perform as good as they did in 2002.

On the other hand, Argentina squad consisting of Sorin, Ayala, Riquelme, Crespo, Saviola, Messi and other seems to be more balanced as a team. They are prepared to vindicate their 2002 disappointing performance. This squad looks motivated with more young strikers who have been performing well over the past 2-3 years along with the mix of similar experienced players as that of the Brazilian squad. This squad are capable of performing the "gambetta" similar to the squad of 1986 world cup and overcome all odds to win the 2006 world cup title.