Countdown Begins for FIFA World Cup Germany 2006. Everyone is wondering who will win 18th edition of FIFA World Cup 2006, the most prestigious and most loved tournament in the world. No one can predict which team will lift the cup but still big shots are, like always, Brazil, Argentina, Germany, England, France, and Italy. All the teams can go one and one but still I am of the opinion that England is the most capable to win this time around. England has players with a bit of magic who can win a game. They have a cracking back four, a great keeper and teams will have to do really well to score against them. The midfield is well balanced and up front you would think Wayne Rooney or Michael Owen could nick a goal or two?.. They are the two rabbits that England have to pull out of the hat and stun the opponent.
Owen has started to gain full sharpness after his switch from Real Madrid to Newcastle and is right on track for a super show for the upcoming World Cup. The most important factor is his partnership with Wayne Rooney. Playing alongside Rooney, Owen’s confidence is soaring. Rooney is a player who can pull a rabbit out of the hat to overcome any class of opposition and it looks like he will be the man to lead England to World Cup glory. He is that kind of player, even if he has a quiet first 15 minutes, you know he is going to create opportunities to score somewhere along the line. It’s almost impossible for any team to mark him all the 90 minutes. Owen?s game is totally different to Rooney’s. His strength isn’t coming off people and linking up play. His strength is seeing opportunities, knowing where the ball is going to go, sniffing out a chance, and when he gets a chance, scoring. Owen and Rooney firing in the World Cup could be the key to England’s success. Rooney was on fire in Euro 2004 and they both were on fire against Argentina in the recent World Cup Warm-up and when they are on form, they become unstoppable.
Besides them Captain David Beckham is coming back to his best form and Frank Lampard is looks divine on the midfield. Steven Gerrard, Ledley King, Rio Ferdinand, John Terry, Paul Robinson and rest of the team all are fully ready for the kick-off. But the cream on the cake is the blossoming partnership of Owen and Rooney. They play very well together and they are both top-class players. They are both young. Owen is 26 and been in the game for eight-nine years and Rooney just 20 has put on the England jersey 28 times. . No other player has been able to do the wonders he did at the last world cup. Rooney is to England, what Pele was to Brazil in 1970.
Owen is a player of such caliber, whom if you present three chances will score at least twice. Rooney could emerge as one of the stars of World Cup 2006. Today, he is considered one of the best players in the world. England have had possibly the hard part of qualifying for a World Cup and they have got probably their best chance of succeeding since 1966. They have got a fantastic group of players and they have a great opportunity of being very, very successful. And thus ending the world cup drought they have been facing for decades.
– Zekid
