Homan’s World Cup Notes

*The first game is on June 10 when Brazil plays Scotland in * In a recent survey in England, 95% of men between the
Saint-Denis. ages of 25 to 34 said they

* In May, the World Cup Organizing would rather watch the
Committee decided to allocate World Cup on TV than
15,000 more tickets for the World have sex with their dream

Cup. Over 20 million fans called woman.

trying to get tickets. The odds of * The last FIFA

someone getting a ticket for the (Fedération Internationale

World Cup was I in 1300. _ de Football Association)
¢ Iran has fired their coach. Croatian- ‘ rankings came out before

born Tomaslay Ivic was fired on | the start of the World

May 20 after Iran lost 7-I to AS
Roma (which a club team in
Italy). Ivic was immediately replaced
by Iranian-born Jalal Talebi. Talebi
will coach the team through the
duration of the World Cup.

| Cup. The next rankings

7 will be announced after

 

How would you rather spend your time?

Latest Rankings as of May 20 (FIFA rankings in parentheses)

 

 

Group A Group B Group C Group D
Brazil (1) Italy (14) France (17) Spain (15)
Scotland (41) Chile (9) South Africa (24) Nigeria (74)
Morocco (13) Cameroon (49) Saudi Arabia (34) Paraguay (29)
Norway (7) Austria (31) Denmark (27) Bulgaria (35)
Group E Group F Group G Group H
Netherlands (25) Germany (2) Romania (22) Argentina (6)
Belgium (36) USA (11) Colombia (10) Japan (12)
South Korea (20) Yugoslavia (8) England (S) ‘ Jamaica (30)

Mexico (4) Iran (42) Tunisia (21) Croatia (19)

 

These are the Las Vegas odds of winning the World Cup as of May 22, 1998

Brazil - 11 to 4 Yugoslavia - 25 to | Chile - 66 to I USA - 300 to I

France - 5 to I Nigeria - 28 to | Paraguay - 66 to | South Korea - 200 to I:
England - 7 to I Norway - 28 to I Belgium - 80 to | Jamaica - 200 to I
Germany - 7 to | Colombia - 40 to I Austria - 100 to | Morocco - 250 to I
Italy - 8 to I Croatia - 40 to | Mexico - 100 to I Saudi Arabia - 250 to I
Netherlands - 9 to I Denmark - 40 to | Cameroon - 100 to | Tunisia - 250 to I
Argentina - 12 to | Romania - 40 to | Scotland - 125 to I Japan - 250 to |

Spain - 14 to I Bulgaria - 50 to I South Africa- 150 to I Iran - 250 to I

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