100 Day Countdown to the start of the World Cup 2010

It's official fellow BOTLs, The world cup is starting real soon and I am really excited already. I wanted to post this thread to see if there are any other soccer fans out there who will be watching the games (at least following due to time change).

Please feel free to use this thread to post anything related to the world cup, matches, teams, stats, bets , etc.

Depending on the amount of interest shown, I may have some ideas for some type of contest related to the tournament which I will post later on.

Things to keep in mind:

Panini has been selected as the official Album/sticker/trading card provider by FIFA for this world cup and the next. Here is an article I found on that:

http://www.fifa.com/aboutfifa/market...d=1008794.html

To that end, is there anyone who is into collecting the album and player stickers? I have all the albums dating back to the Wold Cup in Italy 1990. It is always a challenge to fill them completely and there are always trades and swaps available which I think would be cool to do with anyone on this board.

For the latest stats you can see this website which also contains all the groups and team information.

http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/index.html

I am stoked!