they simply pick the country or qualification based on past results?

where on earth is Tahiti

on paper yes, on the field not really...

this is the japan team that won asia cup, but this is the brazil team that is pretty young and newly form. U can put all the superstars onto one team, but if they don't play as one, they will lose to a much inferior team eg: England

wp Brazil. very entertaining stuff they have done.

Japan doesn't look like themselves at all. Problem suiting with the area i guess, all of em look so tired even before the 90 min mark.

and Brazil as the host, the pitch is quite...... low-tier stuff. Lots of brown spot all over the stadium even before the game begin

this brazil - italy match refereeing standard came from where sia

Aquilani was so bad in that game it wasn't even funny. After Pirlo retire, really Italy has nobody to man the midfield.

The Abate injury was really unlucky. He fall so awkwardly that he might have broke his arm.

Brazil well won, so very much expect Spain vs Brazil

The irony of the people in Brazil doing protest daily about World Cup but they still come and give their mightiest support to the team