Argentina - Greece - South Korea - Nigeria
Three of these teams (Argentina, Greece and Nigeria) were grouped together back in USA '94. In those days, Maradonna was on drugs, Nigeria were the flagship for the emerging footballing force of the dark continent, and jokes about the Greeks opening a kebab-shop everytime they had a corner were still considered hilarious.
So what has changed since then?
Well, frankly not much.
Diego is quite obviously still on drugs, although given his ever-diminishing stature it seems his drug of choice might be the same substance that was in the cake that Alice ate after she fell down the rabbit hole. I recently purchased a Subbuteo set featuring the Argentine national team, and the little maestro's figure was the only one not marked as "not actual size". True story!
Nigeria have effectively done nothing at senior level and to be honest are something of a rabble now, and while the Greeks somehow pulled off the Euro '04 title, having 11 men sweeping up is not an effective way to run a yiros shop. You have to have someone up front applying the garlic sauce!
This group will be won easily by Argentina because they have Lionel Messi and the other teams don't. I'm predicting that South Korea will finish second simply because the other two teams are not up to much.
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