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The FIFA 2010 WC: A Geography lesson
FIFA 2010 World Cup: Welcome to South..... America? Ole!
No scientific post today - I'll follow up yesterday's post on the physiological demands of football with a post on fatigue and performance tomorrow. But for today, here is something on the lighter side - a screen grab from a news station in Chicago. Spot the error...
Suddenly, those empty seats at some of the smaller matches make sense. Very funny!
Follow us on Twitter - updates and trivia
Meanwhile, if you can't watch matches, and would like to receive the occasional match update, as well as whatever interesting trivia pops into my mind as I am watching, check out our Twitter feed, which I promise to keep as active as possible during the tournament!
Here is some sample trivia for today - in the last three World Cups, teams that have won their first match have advanced to the second round 85.7% of the time. In fact, winning at least ONE match sees qualification 75% of the time, such is the pressure of a four team group. Teams that draw their first match get through 50% of the time, and teams that lose the opener qualify 13% of the time.
But of course, still all to play for! Ghana v Serbia is up next, and it's one of the big fixtures of the group stages.
Ross
4 Comments:
Go AUSTRALIA!
You at the game Ross?
Hi Tim
No, I'm not. It's in Durban, I'm stuck in Cape Town! I have a game next weekend - Cameroon v Denmark.
This one could be tight. I was torn in my predictions (I organized a competition to predict results for my University dept), because the Aussies will be the best prepared team in terms of planning - they borrow so much from other sports and over 30 years, they've grown such a vast body of IP on high performance sport. One thing you know you get with Aus is super advanced intellectualism!
Germany on the other hand, while inexperienced, are a pick for a semi. So I'll sit on the fence on this one.
I'll be following it and posting on Twitter!
Enjoy!
Ross
Ha ha! I don't suppose we can trust that weather forecast at the bottom of the screen either, can we? What station is this? Rindikulazz!!
I think this TV station hired Miss (South or North?) Carolina to take care of their geography graphics.
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