Sunday, June 13, 2010

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
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4 comments:

  1. DrTimJune 13, 2010 at 8:12 PM

    Go AUSTRALIA!

    You at the game Ross?

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  2. Ross Tucker and Jonathan DugasJune 13, 2010 at 8:23 PM

    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

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  3. David WanjiruJune 14, 2010 at 11:32 AM

    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!!

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  4. AnonymousJune 17, 2010 at 3:39 AM

    I think this TV station hired Miss (South or North?) Carolina to take care of their geography graphics.

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