World Cup Preview Group E and F

GroupE

Switzerland, Ecuador, Honduras, and France

France was a dissapointing team in 2010. And they still is.

They had a king in the pitch, like Copa, Platini, Zidane et.al. But now, no one can lead them.

Others are also not strong enough so it is difficult to predict.

Strong strikers will determin the game. I would prefer Benzema and Caicedo.

France and Ecuador will go to the knockout round.

GroupF

Argentina, Bosnia, Iran, Nigeria

Argentina is one of the strongest team. Though their attacker lineup is incredible, only 3 or 4 can play. Comparing to their front side, their brock is not up to standard of Great powers.

It will be a problem in the final stage, but they can win first 3 games.

Traditional African and Asian power Nigeria and Iran have few talented players.

Bosnian attacking football will cause a sensation.

World Cup Preview Group C and D

Group C

Colombia, Japan, Greece, and Ivory Coast

Japan was truly lucky. All teams have a chance to go to the final round.

Even injured Falcao can't play for Colombia, they have strong attackers, powerful midfields, high quality stoppers. Colombia will be the top.

Though Japan has many good players in Europian League, they still be not good at deeling with Africans. Defenders are too little and strikers are light. Ivory Coast will defeat Japan and be the second.

Greece is well organized but it is easy to stop them because of their simple strategy.

GroupD

Uruguay, Costa Rica, England, and Italy

I'm sorry to say Costa Rica has no chance to win. They looks like Poland in 18th century.

I would recommend England and Uruguay.

English young power is difficult to measure. I believe their potential. Wilshere will be regarded as a top gamemaker after the tournament.

Although Italian (Juventus's) back line is strong, their goalgetters are not reliable except for Balotelli. Cassano is a past player and other strikers can't break Uruguay's brock.

Uruguay had a hard luck. But, they can go to the final round. Their strikers, Suarez, Cavani, Forlan are the most strong trio. I wish Suarez don't use his hands.

World Cup Preview Group A and B

My best hobby is watching football. So, I'll write about the FIFA World Cup.

I'm going to predict the result of all groups and the final rounds.

Group A

Brazil, Croatia, Mexico, and Cameroon

Naturally, Brazil will go to the final round. Their back line is the strongest among the world. Unusually, their attacking players are not special. Oscar will be a key player because Neymar will be strictly marked. With their many supporters, they will win 3 games without any problems.

Croatia will be the second. Modric is the best game-maker inthe world. He can run for 90 minutes ,build up, and make a killer-pass. Olic and Mandzukic, former and current Bayern's strikers will be dengerous for enemy's defenders.

Mexico and Cameroon also have good players. But, Brazil is too strong and Croatia has more star players. Etoo will leave Brazil with being disappointed.

Group B

Spain, Netherland, Chile, and Australia

Though title holder, Spain is regarded as the biggest rival by all the countries, they will get 9 or 7 points and go to the final round. Even they don't have ace striker( Torres is no more the ace, Villa and Diego's condition are not good), their midfield is filled by the most skilled technicians. Weakness of their sideback will have no problem because of their possesion.

Netherland, the finalist of South Africa, is now seemed to be second. But I don't agree. Their defenders don't have enough ability to represent the "Great Power." Chile, group of hard workers will get the second place. Vidal will get a lot of praise from many commentators. I'm sorrry to say that, but Australia will not be able to any points. It was a hard luck for them to enter into this group.

Chocolate

I wrote I love tea yesterday. And I also like chocolates, especially bitter chocolates.

Cacao has a lot of flavors likes woods, flowers, smokes and so on. I like flowery flavor.

Because sweet taste prevents enjoying beautiful smells, I like bitter chocolates.

Bon-Bon-Chocolat is my favorite chocolate too. Pierre Herme is one of the greatest chocolatier. His Bon-Bon taste quite deeply. I can get good tea time with only one Bon-Bon. I have a good news and bad news about him. Good news is I can buy his chocolate in Tokyo. There is an boutique at Aoyama. Bad news is its price. One Bon-Bon is over \300. I can eat Gyudon instead of a chocolate.

Hot summer is coming and it's not a good season for chocolate. My refrigerator will be filled by chocolates! I wish autumn will come soon.

Tea

This is the first article of this blog.

I have an English lesson today. And my trainer recommended me to write something in English everyday.

Because I don't like using paper and pen (peper will go to trash box soon!), I'm starting this blog.

First of all, I will write about "TEA".

Recently, I'm drinking tea everynight.

I drunk German wine everyday formerly.But it was not good for my wallet and liver. So, I had to look for something to drink instead of wine. And I found tea.

Wine and tea has many similarities.

First, we drink thier "smell". Delicious wine and tea smell good as they taste good. For example, smell of good darjeeling is said as "muscatel" although it's non-flavored tea. And riesling is often described as "white flower". We pay not only for their taste, but also their smell.

Second, both of them are affected by their origin. As you know, taste( or smell) of wine is decided by "terroir", as how to be made. Tea is also affected by the criminate and the soil.

And last, they have wide price range. Unfortunately, drinking good tea cost me as much as drinking wine! Some tea cost over \10,000/100g. I can't afford it!

Drinking tea may become one of my hobbies. But I should give up wine or tea someday. It's too expensive to master.

With "Marco Polo (Mariage freres)",