Who's your dark horse this World Cup and why. I'm all ears
I don't care about that shit sport
The Netherlands will win the tournament
We're trying to rig it for argentina because messi bent the knee to MAGA
>>154975973Norway
curacao because dick advocaat is their coach
>>154975973brazil
Only brainlets watch soccer, real men will watch MLB.
>>154975973it will be spain france england or brazil. there is literally no reason to watch. its the most pointless tournament in the sport. cut the field to 16 and ill think about paying attention
I would say Austria but they just lost Baumgartner to injury in a friendly yesterday who is their best player by far
>>154975973Curacao they got that dawg in them
What does dark horse mean in sports? The team that can't win it all but will knock out the favorites, is that it?
>>154975973portugal
>>154975973DR Congo and here's why.As a /footballwatcher/ That team has since French head coach Sébastien Desabre taken over been on a ascending road, here are their feats for the 3 past years:>ends up 4th at the 2023 AFCON, 2 years prior they didn't even qualify>in that AFCON, they make Morocco, who just got 4th out of the World Cup 2022 choke, then proceed to beat egypt, and edges to the future champions Ivory Coast>During the World Cup qualifyers, they were pretty much 1st, above Sénégal, until they last minute choke their last game.>Go through the African Playoffs, and kick out Cameroon AND fucking Nigeria, that has Lookman & Osimhen upfront>At the AFCON 2025, almost BTFO Sénégal, before gifting them a dumb goal that'll make them draw>Loses to Algeria at the very last play, during 120minutes, with many goals disallowed for them (refballed)>Eventually qualify to intercontinental playoffs.IF today they won't do shit at this world cup, by 2027-30, they'll become the new force to reckon with in Africa.Also one special stat: They played 14 games with Mbemba-Tuanzebe as CB, guess how many games they lost with these two? Only 1 (ONE), Algeria. Otherwise, their defense is Strong as fuck.
>>154976092A team that could potentially win it that the majority of people never thought possibleThink Greece winning the euros
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>>154976094Sounds nice, rooting for them so europeans can seethe at the cosmic karma of the African nation they tortured the most winning
>>154976190whites have been a postivie force by far for most of the ethnicities of the world. the ONLY victim who didn't ask nothing are the indigenous folks from the carribean islands, or the pacific islandders, that's it. everybody else benefited massively from our wiseness and technologies.
>>154976000>>154976247stop it
>>154976302what I've seen convinced me. you might totally explode in the WC, but the teamplay is insane and fucking haaland.... he's been well rested.
>>154976318we will crash out in the group stage
>>154975973Engerland
>>154976326seeing a nordic partaking in the anulo muffa and anti jixing tricks a mediterannean would use disgust me.btw, I watched the replay of noway vs sweden today, and the ball kids chosen were all mutts, some disgusting kid during the norwegian hymn and laughing,staring at the camera and doing the albanian eagle hand gesture. I wanted to stab him to death.
>>154976345they're just dark
>>154976350meds have incredible jinxing powers
>>154975973Turkey will be hard to beat
Darkest horse I could find
I think Iran is gonna do well
>>154975973to win? none, it will be one of the usual suspects. Canada is going to surprise people
>>154975973I dunno if it counts as a dark horse, but JapanThey had been improving year by year and I want to see if they can go further than Final 16
>>154975973japan
Uzbekistan through sheer meme magicOr paraguay/ecuador through the power of haramball
>>154975973Morocco for sure
>>154976152This would be the greatest salt mine of all time but I don't think there's enough bribe money in the world to make it actually happen. We're just not a good soccer nation and never will be we're mostly okay with thatIf it did somehow happen I would rub it in Mexico's face every chance I got though
Depends what is meant by dark horse >country who can actually win it but probably won't Netherlands or Portugal >country who is best of the rest and can get a result against the big boysColombia, Japan, Senegal, Morocco, Switzerland >country who ks severly being slept on who might do better than expected Paraguay
>>154981170>>country who is best of the rest and can get a result against the big boysprobably this, it doesnt need to win, but can reach final semi final, like turkey in 2002 or croatia in 2018 or costa rica in 2014
Bosnia
>>154975973Senegal cinderella story after being ROBBED of the AFCON.
>>154975993based
>>154976047he died last year anon
>>154975991fpbp
>retard tierCanada - I don't even know why people are shilling them, they've yet to win a match at a wc. semifinals in Copa America mean little when they only beat Peru and Venezuela (in pens) to get thereIran - kind of mid all around, lack any defining characteristic to steal a game from a bigger teamParaguay - like Ecuador, if Ecuador had a far shittier defense>dubious tierJapan - some rate them because they're on an upwards trajectory, but they've still got too far to go to pose a threat. especially now that Mitoma is injured Mexico, USA - play less than the sum of their parts, but maybe home advantage could carry them to an unlikely placementSwitzerland, Colombia - don't fall for the meme yet againMorocco, Senegal - fake and real afcon champions, but they're both going to get exposed by a proper team. people rate the Morocco semifinal run from last time like it wasn't a complete fluke>possible tierEcuador - elite defense, and could haramball their way past a top tier teamNorway - elite attack, and slept on defense. would be funny if they crashed out in the group stage though>I don't know desuTurkey, Bosnia
>>154975973Brazil
>>154975973Portugal (it's his turn)
>>154976247Not competing in those temperatures, surely? Unless they've also stocked up on African players recently, I haven't been paying attention.
Senegal because it’d be funny if they make it farther than Morocco after getting cucked by the fuckwits at CAF
Mexico to the semis
>>154976017and mexicans aren't good at either
>>154975973Probably Ecuador>>154976039>Brazillmao >>154976093>Dark horse>Has several conseuctive winners this year >Will probably carry grandpa Cr7 to win is so Nike can sell more shitI really hope they don't win as it would only fuel his insane ego and make cr7 fans even more insufferable.
>>154976094based, would love for one to do a siu in front of ronaldo as portugal gets eliminated
>>154981170Japan is heavily crippled without Mitoma. They struggled against Iceland the other day. Out in groups
>>154986422I'd assume Trump likes Ronaldo
It’s obviously USA Home field advantage the FIFA president is sucking off trump for some reason And we have Christian Pulisic the LeBron James of soccer
>>154986422tbqh it would be really funny if some portuguese players contracted ebola after playing against congo
ivory coast
>>154986450Japan is notorious for half passing friendlies. And even then they have recent victories over Brazil and England
