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Friday, June 09, 2006

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Elitezeus on YouTube gives us a great video preview of World Cup Soccer explaining not just who's playing, but in what groups. For more information click on the World Cup Soccer main link just below the post title. Here's the video set to cool techno music.


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World Cup: Ecuador 2, Poland Zip - Poland Upset By Ecuador - ESPN


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The article makes the loss seem rather not a problem for Poland. In reality, it's an upset. It sends Ecuador into "big boy" territory. Can they prevail?

Poland 0-2 Ecuador
PA - ESPN

Agustin Delgado scored one goal and made one as Ecuador got their second ever World Cup campaign off to a flying start with a 2-0 victory over Group A rivals Poland at the Veltins Arena on Friday evening.

Delgado's 24th-minute flick-on set up the opener for Carlos Tenorio before the former Southampton man sealed victory from point-blank range with 10 minutes to play.

Poland's hopes of reaching the second round now look bleak while the Latin Americans will enter uncharted territory if they get into the last 16 in a group also featuring hosts Germany and Costa Rica.

Ecuador coach Luis Fernando Suarez had vowed to play attractive football and his team lived up to that pledge.

It was in stark contrast to their dreadful start to their first World Cup four years ago, when Italy took a 2-0 lead inside 20 minutes of Ecuador's first match in Japan.

This time it was an assured performance by the South Americans against Pawel Janas' side.

Ecuador made the early running and after 24 minutes the Latin Americans made it pay.

A throw by Aston Villa defender Ulises De La Cruz was headed on by Delgado to Tenorio, whose header beat Boruc inside his right-hand post.

Poland, who won the Olympic title on German soil in 1972 and then finished third in the West Germany-hosted World Cup two years later, tried to reply immediately but they badly needed someone of the calibre of Grzegorz Lato who was tournament top scorer in 1974 with seven goals and, with 95 caps, is still the most-capped Polish player.

Maciej Zurawski's cross just eluded Ebi Smolarek but the South Americans were now taking control.

Another De la Cruz throw was headed on by Carlos Tenorio but Delgado blasted over and then a delightful move involving De La Cruz and Luis Valencia ended with the former forcing a save from Boruc at the expense of a corner.

Smolarek was then booked for a foul on Edwin Tenorio and Boruc saved his side again when he readjusted well to save a deflected Edison Mendez free-kick.

Poland started the second-half better and after 50 minutes Jacek Krzynowek lashed a left-footed shot into the Ecuador net although Japanese referee Toru Kamikawa's whistle had already sounded for what looked a close offside decision.

The outnumbered Ecuador fans were holding their own against the vast contingent of Polish supporters who seemed to occupy all but one corner of the Veltins Arena, the home of Schalke - a German team founded in 1904 by Polish miners.

But it was now the Ecuadoreans who were being forced to dig deep with Ecuador skipper Ivan Hurtado, winning his 131st cap, doing well to block a Krzynowek shot.

Ecuador were threatening on the break but Kamikawa's decision to deny Delgado's penalty appeal after he tussled with Mariusz Jop looked a fair one.

The killer blow came after 80 minutes when Poland waited for an offside flag which - correctly - never came and substitute Ivan Kaviedes squared for Delgado to roll the ball into the net.

Jelen and substitute Pawel Brozek both hit the woodwork late on but Ecuador were full value for their win.

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World Cup: Germany 4, Costa Rica 2 - ESPN


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As reported in "Germany Goes Nuts" the Germans opened World Cup with a big win over the place known for Internet gambling, Costa Rica. Here's ESPN's coverage:

Germany 4-2 Costa Rica: Klose sees off Ticos

Germany kicked off the World Cup in entertaining fashion as they hammered Costa Rica 4-2 in the tournament's opening clash in Munich.

Former Derby, Manchester City and West Ham striker Paulo Wanchope stunned the sell-out crowd of 66,000 when he levelled the scores in the 12th minute.

Man-of-the-match Miroslav Klose struck in the 17th and 61st minutes before Wanchope punished the shaky German defence for a second time in the 73rd.

And the spectacular curtain-raiser came to a fitting end in the 87th minute as Torsten Frings's 35-yard piledriver sent the crowd into ecstasy.

The 29-year-old Chelsea player had declared himself fit less than 24 hours before the match, but Klinsmann decided to stick with Werder Bremen ace Tim Borowski in central midfield instead.

Arsenal goalkeeper Jens Lehmann made his World Cup debut in the backyard of Bayern Munich rival Oliver Kahn, after watching four tournaments from the bench.

Injury-free Costa Rica fielded their strongest squad, with Wanchope and in-form Ronald Gomez up front.

Germany, captained today by Leverkusen winger Bernd Schneider, were first to threaten in the third minute when defensive midfielder Frings shot just over from 35 yards.

The hosts got the start they wanted in the sixth minute when Lahm broke the deadlock with a beautifully-curled effort from the top left corner of the box.

Danny Fonseca lost his footing just outside the penalty box, allowing Lahm to round him before curling in a right-footed effort which went in off the far post.

Costa Rica goalkeeper Jose Porras denied Klose from close range, with Schneider rifling over the follow-up.

But Wanchope then silenced the crowd with his equaliser, beating the offside trap to receive a through-ball and fire low past Lehmann.

However, the three-time World Cup winners restored their lead just five minutes later after Schneider crossed from the right touchline.

Hometown hero Bastian Schweinsteiger dribbled his way past two defenders and fired a clever pass to the far post for Klose to sweep home.

Lukas Podolski and Schweinsteiger then tried their luck with long-range efforts but to no avail, before Germany4s shaky defence was exposed for a second time in the 38th minute when Walter Centeno delivered a clever through ball to Wanchope - only for the linesman to flag for offside.

Germany could have doubled the lead in the 43rd minute as Christoph Metzelder got his foot on a right-wing corner - but the defender fired well over from five yards out on the left.

The second half resumed in the same fashion, with Germany holding the majority of possession but not looking totally secure at the back.

Podolski threatened with a left-footed shot from 20 yards just 26 seconds into the second half, before the unmarked Fonseca went close to levelling with a header.

But just when Germany appeared to be struggling to create further openings, Klose came to the rescue again on his 28th birthday.

The man who grabbed a hat-trick in Germany4s opening 8-0 victory over Saudi Arabia four years ago converted from close range after seeing his header from Lahm's cross blocked by Parras.

The Costa Rica keeper stopped another spirited drive from left-back Lahm to prevent further damage two minutes later, before Borowski, who failed to impress as Ballack's replacement, was substituted for Sebastian Kehl in the 72nd minute.

The underdogs gave themselves hope in the 73rd minute, with Wanchope again the scorer. Centeno sprung the German offside trap with a superb through-ball and Wanchope gently placed the ball past Lehmann.

Two-goal hero Klose received a standing ovation when he was replaced by Oliver Neuville in the 80th minute.

Parras saved brilliantly from Per Mertesacker soon after, before Frings put the issue beyond doubt with the goal of the game.
Schweinsteiger laid a free-kick off to the Werder Bremen man - and he hammered home from fully 35 yards to make sure of a winning start for the hosts.

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John From Berlin Thinks Germany Has A Chance To Win World Cup, But England?


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Stopped on the street by WorldCupBlog, John, who lives in Berlin reports that Germany has a chance to win -- but not England. Perhaps never.

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Video: Turish Fan Eligh Says Brazil Will Win The World Cup


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More at Fan Fest Berlin: this nice-looking Turkish woman "Eligh" says that Berlin's going to win the World Cup.

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Fan Fest Berlin Video - Wanna Bratwurst?


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This is a video of a group of cooks making Bratwurst at a booth at Fan Fest Berlin

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Video: World Cup Berlin Fan Fest - Simple Minds In Concert


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This is from this week's events at "Fan Fest" at The World Cup in Berlin. It's Simple Minds, the band best known for hits like "Don't You Forget About Me" and others.

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American Kathy Johnson Show's Em How To ....Dance At World Cup


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This is another funny video of a young woman just cutin' up at World Cup and telling the World that Gemany's going to win.

Here's Kathy:

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Germany Beats Coasta Rica - Goes Nuts: ESPN


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I've goto to admit, it's pretty interesting to see how the World comes together for this event.

Savoring the atmosphere
By Wayne Drehs - ESPN
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HAMBURG, Germany -- I've stood in the infield of the Daytona International Speedway and watched Dale Jr. win the 500. I've sat on Henman Hill and witnessed a few thousand Brits lose their Pimm's over Scottish tennis star Andy Murray. I've seen the Patriots, Ravens and Steelers win the Super Bowl, the Marlins win the World Series and the Devils take home the Stanley Cup.

But never -- ever -- has a 6-year-old boy, strapped to his father's shoulders, looked down on me, leaned back and with all his might slammed his forehead smack into mine. And then received a high five from his dad.

Nope, it took the World Cup for that. It took German defenseman Philip Lahm's beating Costa Rican goalie Jose Porras in the sixth minute of the Cup opener in Munich (some 480 miles away) to get my first fan head butt.

It took little Max Moeller's seeing the goal on the massive big screen in front of him, feeling the testosterone racing through him and deciding to noggin-knock the first person he saw.

And afterward, Max and his father did what any good soccer fan would do -- they exchanged high fives and sang songs, celebrating their goal, celebrating their celebration.

"DEUTSCHLAND, DEUTSCHLAND, JA, JA, JA ... DEUTSCHLAND, DEUTSCHLAND, JA, JA, JA."

"You must understand," Max's father, Paul, said later, "this is the greatest day of Max's life. He has talked about World Cup since his first words. I'm not sure people from U-S-A understand."

Maybe, maybe not. But Max and Paul sure tried to hammer home their point. Literally. The problem is, back in the States, there simply is no comparison to the World Cup.

"We say the winner of the World Series is the world champion, the winner of the Super Bowl is the world champion, but they don't play anybody outside of our country," U.S. defender Eddie Pope said. "So how can they say that's a true world champion? The magnitude of all this just isn't easy for Americans to understand."

U.S. World Cup schedule

• Monday, June 12 -- vs. Czech Republic at Gelsenkirchen, Germany, noon ET (ESPN2)
• Saturday, June 17 -- vs. Italy at Kaiserslautern, Germany, 3 p.m. ET (ABC)
• Thursday, June 22 -- vs. Ghana at Nuremberg, Germany, 10 a.m. ET (ESPN)

I've tried. And all week long in Germany, I've looked on in awe as the hype has continued to escalate, making the Super Bowl look more and more like the Little League World Series.

Forget the endless, mind-numbing soccer analysis on every media outlet imaginable. That's to be expected. But some of the other things on local television are not. Like Wednesday's fashion show in which models posed in cutouts of soccer balls for their tops -- and bottoms.

Or Thursday night's mini-soccer match between a pair of blindfolded Germans, in which onlookers barked directional commands so they could find the ball.

Or every night this week, when the clock has struck midnight and one channel has displayed what best can be described as soccer porn: female models, lying in goal, peeling off their soccer uniforms until they find themselves completely naked.

Yes, the hype has touched every single aspect of German culture. Beate Uhse, a German sex store with more than 300 retailers, is selling World Cup vibrators. And a news report earlier this week even went so far as to remind dog owners not to paint their pooches the traditional German colors of black, red and gold for the tournament.

Here in picturesque Hamburg, the country's second-largest city, the action doesn't get started officially until Saturday, when Argentina and the Ivory Coast square off at 9 p.m. local time (ESPN2, 3 p.m. ET). But that didn't keep some 50,000 Germans from gathering at Heiligengeistfeld, the city's fairgrounds, in the shadows of a massive former World War II bunker, to watch Friday's opener on a massive 250-square-foot screen.

They began gathering in the morning for the 6 p.m. match (noon ET, televised on ESPN2). By an hour before kickoff a moat of empty beer bottles had gathered around each entrance, with security guards keeping fans from bringing in their own beer.
Fans came in all shapes and sizes, all ages and colors. From the beer-bellied to the pint-sized, from babies to grandparents, from blacks to whites. Nearly everyone wore the black, red and gold of the home country, and seemingly everyone carried a German flag or a foghorn.

While some girls wore tank tops, some occasionally wore no tops.

"I want everyone to know I'm for Germany," said 26-year-old Elke Schmid, who had a friend paint a giant German flag across her chest. "But it became a problem so I have my shirt back on."

The scene was undoubtedly repeated in each of the 12 World Cup host cities, where FIFA and the German host committee organized Fan Fests so fans could come watch the matches with fellow fans. Think Super Bowl Sunday meets Lollapalooza. Berlin was expecting more than 150,000 people for Friday's opener.

CLASSIC REPLAY
Germany-Costa Rica re-airs today at 5 p.m. ET on ESPN Classic.

And for good reason. From 1958 to 1970, the host nation always took part in the opening match. But from 1974, the last time Germany hosted, that honor switched to the defending champion. Thirty-two years later, back on German soil, the old tradition was reintroduced.

In this country of 82 million, one Hamburg city official estimated 85 percent to 90 percent of the country watched Friday night's World Cup opening match.

"You have to remember," she said, "we have babies, old people and sick people, too."

Not to mention rambunctious 6-year-olds, eager to do everything they can to display their patriotism -- preferably headfirst.
Wayne Drehs is a staff writer at ESPN.com. He can be reached at wayne.drehs@espn3.com.

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Francis - Berlin Beer Tent Girl Gives Us Her Views On World Cup


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Brasil fan Francis was kind enough to provide this video producer with her view on the outcome of this year's World Cup.

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A Video Tour Of Munich - World Cup Hosts


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I found this interesting video tour of Munich, called "Munich 101"

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World Cup Soccer At 6 AM - San Francisco's North Beach Cafe Is The Host!


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From an email i just received...

Jump start your day with us at 6am and enjoy the World Cup with us all morning!

North Beach's Caffe`Roma, located at 526 Columbus Ave/ Union, has installed a 42' Plasma TV in High-Definition for the ultimate soccer experience!

Want to watch the World Cup Soccer, work on the side without your boss knowing your whereabouts? No problem, with our FREE Wi-Fi service, you won't miss a second of the game and any e-mails.

Enjoy our signature "Good Egg" sandwiches, fresh OJ, a glass of extraordinary Italian wine, beer or a sweet espresso, cappuccino, cannolli, sfogliatelle, tiramisu and gelato.

Watch all the World Cup 2006 games live and free of charge.

The month long tournament begins on June 9th.

-Ciao e Arrivederla

Marsha Garland, Executive Director
North Beach Chamber of Commerce
556 Columbus Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94133
Phone: 415/989-2220 Fax: 415/989-6427
Website: www.sfnorthbeach.org

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