Big Question: What are your Thoughts now that 32 Teams Have Played?
We’re a little less than a week into the World Cup and all 32 teams have played at least once. Some teams have shined, some have surprised and some have stunk up the joint. Now that you have seen all the teams, what are your answers to the following questions:
Which team has been most impressive?
Which team has been least impressive?
What was the best game to watch?
What was the worst game to watch?
What result was most surprising to you?
There are no right and wrong answers so have at it. Give us your first week evaulations.
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By Barney | June 15th, 2006 at 1:47 pm 
Most impressive – Ecuador, Spain, Ivory Coast
Least impressive – Poland, England
Best game to watch – Argentina-Ivory coast & Italy-Ghana
Worst game to watch – England-Paraguay, South korea-Togo
Most surprising result – T&T- Sweden, Spain-Ukraine
Best name: –
Worst name: Pimpong (Togo)
worst referee mistake: Japanese goal for 1:0, Penalty and redcard on spain-ukraine
Best anthem: German, British
Worst Coach: Sven Goran Eriksson
Players we most want to see PLAY: Spain’s Fabregas, Argentina’s Messi and Holland’s van der Vaart, Croatian Modric.
Posted from 
Croatia
By peter k jachode | June 15th, 2006 at 2:06 pm the USA team always stink-
they do not ever play good-they
will never learn to play soccer-
they do not ever deserve to be near a WORLD CUP stadium–they
are a complete disgrace for the USA–
USA-PLEASE STAY AWAY FROM SOCCER
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United States
By Stuart | June 15th, 2006 at 2:12 pm Which team has been most impressive? Spain
Which team has been least impressive? USA 
What was the best game to watch? Sweden v Trinidad & Tobago
What was the worst game to watch? France v Switzerland
What result was most surprising to you? Sweden v Trinidad & Tobago
Based solely on first performances, Spain is the team to beat at the moment. Argentina, Italy, Germany, Sweden, & the Czech Republic all looked good. Holland isn’t quite there yet, but has promise. Brasil isn’t on form yet.
Germany’s last minute win yesterday might be pointing to something special for them…we’ll see. 
By BEANER | June 15th, 2006 at 3:10 pm Most impressive team:No doubt”La Madre España” Came out strong, no signs of weakness, staring from Iker, puyol all the way to torres.
Least Impressive: USA what a dissapointment
Best Game: Wether u like it or not Mexico Vs Iran (Mexico the only team from North America that has a Victory. “WE ARE REPRESENTING BABY”
Most surprising result: the tie between trinidad and sewden
Posted from United States
By Kite | June 15th, 2006 at 4:01 pm Most impressive: Spain (maybe this time they’ll get to the semifinals…)
Least impressive: France, followed by England and not-so-mighty Brazil
Best game: T&T vs Sweden - best goalless match ever!
Worst game: France vs Switzerland
Most surprising result: Poland 0 - Ecuador 2 (after the lackluster friendlies, many of us in Ecuador were expecting a Polish victory)
By alex | June 15th, 2006 at 4:35 pm I want to know why I hear no one criticizing the Saudi’s for their poor game management. They were given a free kick deep in Tunisia territory with a 1 goal lead. They decided to serve into the box, losing the ball which eventually led to the Jaidi goal….
By Fei | June 15th, 2006 at 4:40 pm Most impressive: Czechic
Least impressive: France
Best game: Czechic vs USA 3:0
Worst game: France vs Switzerland 0:0
Most surprising result: Spain vs Ukraine 4:0
p.s. I still believe Brazil will win the final
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China
By Roland | June 15th, 2006 at 4:44 pm Which team has been most impressive? Spain
Which team has been least impressive? USA
What was the best game to watch? Spain beating up on Ukraine
What was the worst game to watch? USA v. Czech Republic
What result was most surprising to you? Sweden v. Trinidad & Tobago
Posted from United States
By werttrew99 | June 15th, 2006 at 5:38 pm *Which team has been most impressive?
Nine teams impressed me. In order of most impressive to least:
Spain, Argentina, Italy, Ecuador, Czech Republic, Germany, Australia, Netherlands, Croatia.
*Which team has been least impressive?
Ukraine and USA are easy answers, but I’d include France, and the lackluster Brazil and England.
*What was the best game to watch?
Spain vs Ukraine, Germany vs Poland, Ecuador vs Costa Rica were all great games, but I’d select T&T vs Sweden as the best so far.
*What was the worst game to watch?
As a fan of Brazil and USA, their two openers.
*What result was most surprising to you?
T&T’s tie with Sweden; Spain’s blow-out of Ukraine.
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By Peter Odaro | June 15th, 2006 at 8:16 pm The speed that Czeck Republic displayed against the US Team is unbelievable. Their speed is suspicious. I hope somebody is checking for drug use by the athletes.
Peter
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By Carlos | June 15th, 2006 at 9:18 pm Hi,
the best:
Czeck Republic and Spain.
In the second group, in order:
Germany, Holland, Argentina, Italy and Brazil.
The worst:
France.
Best game:
Australia and Japon.
(Sorry Zico, but you deserved!)
The worst game:
France and England gamezzzzzzzzz…
I hope brazil will improve, but not with Ronaldo, Cafu and Roberto Carlos.
I wait to see Robinho, Cicinho and Juninho Pernambucano.
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Brazil
By Nirmala | June 15th, 2006 at 9:42 pm Most Impressive: Trinidad and Tobago; Czech Republic; Spain; Mexico; Ecuador
Least Impressive: France;England; Ukraine; USA
Best Game to watch: Trindad and Anybody (:-)
Worst Game to Watch: France/ Switzerland
Most Surprising: Spain/ Ukraine
Most Amazing Team: Soca Warriors!!!
Go Soca Warriors! You’ve Done us Proud!
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Trinidad And Tobago
By Keyser | June 15th, 2006 at 11:06 pm best team: spain, argentina, czech rep
best match: swed-T&T: an absolute thriller for a neutral viewer
worst match: eng-par (which else?)
worst team: USA
surpise match: spain ukr
Carlos: for the health of your rivals, I hope juninho doesn’t leave the bench.
By Janie | June 15th, 2006 at 11:16 pm Which team has been most impressive? SPAIN, AUSTRALIA, TRINIDAD & TOBAGO, and SOUTH KOREA (for the FANS)
Which team has been least impressive? USA, FRANCE
What was the best game to watch? AUSTRALIA vs. JAPAN and SOUTH KOREA vs. TOGO (for those awesome Korean FANS!)
What was the worst game to watch? FRANCE vs. SWITZERLAND
What result was most surprising to you? AUSTRALIA vs. JAPAN and SPAIN vs. UKRAINE
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South Korean fans were amazing (as they were in 2002) and supported their players 100% - with fans like that, it’s hard to lose.. go Korean fans!
Posted from United States
By DrE | June 15th, 2006 at 11:34 pm Most Impressive Team - Spain ( nobody here expected such a great game ), but they´ll encounter Brazil at quarter finals, so they won´t be able to make it to semi-finals ( again )
Least impessive team - England, I expected much more from this squad
Best game to watch - I enjoyed a lot with Brazil - Croatia but also with Argentina - Ivory Coast
Worst game to watch - England - T&T ( the english team didn´t deserve that 2-0 win )
Most suprising result - Ecuador 2 - Poland 0
By Ali Siddiqui | June 16th, 2006 at 12:42 am Which team has been most impressive?
Which team has been least impressive? England. Right after that dismal play with Paraguay I lost all hope that this time they’ll be doing some great football.
What was the best game to watch?
The Tunisia vs. Saudi Arabia game was what I think was a sleeper hit. No one thought these two almost unknowns would produce such an exciting pace and killer goals!
What was the worst game to watch? Oh man the USA vs. Czech Republic…that was just sad. I couldn’t believe the USA got this far into the qualifying matches and then all of a sudden die out to the underdogs!
What result was most surprising to you? Ecaudor vs. Costa Rica! From what I saw in the highlights it was an amazing game Ecuador outpaced, outplayed, and outskilled CRC! To have a killer 3-0 game lead was just phenomenal!
Posted from 
Canada
By Ali Siddiqui | June 16th, 2006 at 12:43 am Whoops forgot to answer this :p
Which team has been most impressive? Ecuador, was the most underrated team to date and this time they made history with great playing and passion! Vamos Ecuador!
Posted from Canada
By Abdul | June 16th, 2006 at 7:11 am Matt,
We know about football”soccer” and we are part of the world whether you like it or not. And no, we will not leave the game for you, we will learn it better and whip your *** one day.. That’s said, we have the utmost respect for brits and the rest of the world, so you know.
Dave Hamilton,
I couldn’t said it better myself, right on the money.
Posted from United States
By Left Winger | June 16th, 2006 at 7:28 am Best Names: KaKa, Shaka and Zidane, because that guy on the French side has the same name as “The great Zidane”.
Worst Name: Crouch. But don’t stop the silly ‘Robot Dance’ Petey me lad, that is precisely the kind of exuberance England lack right now.
Ugliest Uniform: What is that ridiculous paint swatch across the Costa Rican jersey, yech! England: Just boring! Bring back the red of ‘66. Germany: Ditto!
Best Uniform: Gotta love Croatia. And who is going to argue with the Dutch orange? When artist Barnet Newman famously asked “who’s afraid of red, yell and blue?” he apparently had never come across the fearless Ecuadorian squad.
Which team has been most impressive? The Czech Republic was fast, powerful and precise. Could we be looking at the cup hoisters here? I wait to see what they will do in face of more formidable opposition. I love Calypso, I love steel band, I love Soca music and I would be sad to see T & T go, but go they might right now.
Which team has been least impressive? The U.S.A. was surprisingly dithering, cloudy-headed and uninspired. You’ve got to at least chase the ball, what were they doing there? It was agony to watch.
What was the best game to watch? I can only imagine the Socceroo’s emotional last minute dismantling of Japan had to be scintillating. All war-time rivals make for emotionally piqued battles.
What was the worst game to watch? My English heart weeps for the shackles that bind the legs of my heroes. And I have oft heard rumors of the reckless prescribing of Prozak in the U.S.A.
What result was most surprising to you? Although here in Indonesia we watch the games between 9:00 pm and 5:00am, I am surprised how many times I have fallen asleep before the end of a game, not a good thing in this particular World Cup.
Posted from 
Australia
By Left Winger | June 16th, 2006 at 7:39 am And BTW, could we get more precise flag assignment to determine where each post is coming from? Are all posts from the Pacific Islands to Burma listed under the Aussie flag? A Mexican post under the U.S. banner? Etc., etc. Makes the above discussion a wee bit more interesting and nuanced.
Posted from Australia
By janice | June 17th, 2006 at 12:28 am Mexico is very overrated not to good of a team.
Posted from United States
By Ariela | June 17th, 2006 at 1:02 am Argentina-brilliant display of how a potential world-cup winner ought to play in the group stages. England-AWEFULL!!They WILL get knocked out in the next round(unless some amphibian plague torments either germany or equador before the match!)Stranger things have happened…
Ivory Coast have done themselves proud. Definately the rookies of the tournament!
Equador are the biggest shockers of the tornament.
Italy are looking good but if anything goes wrong the team’ll probably crumble.They are their own worst enemies!
9 July 2006: Italy vs Argentina.
By dila | June 19th, 2006 at 5:43 am having read all the comments i daresay that GREAT teams didn’t turn out to be that GREAT..how disappointing..
on the contrary,the underdogs have been impressing so far..
oh well,i still wish to see the best side of england though.
no doubt spain played wonderfully=)
YNWA
Posted from 
Malaysia
By Marcus | June 23rd, 2006 at 12:18 am Aussies have an awesome coach - he coached for the South Korean team last time around and they made it to 4th place. Go Aussies!
Posted from United States
By drago | June 26th, 2006 at 10:38 am more yelow card PLEASE 16 is not to much
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