World Cup Squads

[chrissivad]

Group G​

Goalkeepers: Manuel Neuer (Bayern Munich), Roman Weidenfeller (Borussia Dortmund), Ron-Robert Zieler (Hannover)

Defenders: Jerome Boateng (Bayern Munich), Erik Durm (Borussia Dortmund), Kevin Grosskreutz (Borussia Dortmund), Benedikt Howedes (Schalke), Mats Hummels (Borussia Dortmund), Philipp Lahm (Bayern Munich), Per Mertesacker (Arsenal), Shkodran Mustafi (Sampdoria).

Midfielders: Julian Draxler (Schalke), Matthias Ginter (Freiburg), Mario Gotze (Bayern Munich), Christoph Kramer (Borussia Monchengladbach), Sami Khedira (Real Madrid), Toni Kroos (Bayern Munich), Thomas Muller (Bayern Munich), Mesut Ozil (Arsenal), Andre Schurrle (Chelsea), Bastian Schweinsteiger (Bayern Munich).

Forwards: Miroslav Klose (Lazio), Lukas Podolski (Arsenal).

Goalkeepers: Beto (Sevilla), Eduardo (Braga), Rui Patricio (Sporting).

Defenders: Andre Almeida (Benfica), Bruno Alves (Fenerbahce), Fabio Coentreo (Real Madrid), Joao Pereira (Valencia), Neto (Zenit), Pepe (Real Madrid), Ricardo Costa (Valencia).

Midfielders: Joao Moutinho (Monaco), Miguel Veloso (Dinamo Kiev), Raul Meireles (Fenerbahce), Ruben Amorim (Benfica), William Carvalho (Sporting).

Forwards: Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid), Eder (SC Braga), Helder Postiga (Lazio), Hugo Almeida (Besiktas), Nani (Manchester United), Rafa (Braga), Varela (FC Porto), Vieirinha (Wolfsburg)

Goalkeepers: Fatau Dauda (Orlando Pirates), Adam Kwarasey (Stromsgodset), Stephen Adams (Aduana Stars).

Defenders: Samuel Inkoom (Platanias), Daniel Opare (Standard Liege), Harrison Afful (Esperance), John Boye (Rennes), Jonathan Mensah (Evian), Rashid Sumalia (Mamelodi Sundowns).

Midfielders: Michael Essien (AC Milan), Sulley Muntari (AC Milan), Rabiu Mohammed (Kuban Krasnodar), Kwadwo Asamoah (Juventus), Emmanuel Agyemang-Badu (Udinese), Afriyie Acquah (Parma), Christian Atsu (Vitesse), Albert Adomah (Middlesbrough), Andre Ayew (Marseille), Mubarak Wakaso (Rubin Kazan).

Forwards: Asamoah Gyan (Al Ain), Kevin-Prince Boateng (Schalke 04), Abdul Majeed Waris (Valenciennes), Jordan Ayew (Sochaux).

Goalkeepers: Brad Guzan (Aston Villa), Tim Howard (Everton), Nick Rimando (Real Salt Lake).

Defenders: DaMarcus Beasley (Puebla), Matt Besler (Sporting Kansas City), John Brooks (Hertha Berlin), Geoff Cameron (Stoke City), Timmy Chandler (Nuremberg), Omar Gonzalez (LA Galaxy), Fabian Johnson (Hoffenheim), DeAndre Yedlin (Seattle Sounders).

Midfielders: Kyle Beckerman (Real Salt Lake), Alejandro Bedoya (Nantes), Michael Bradley (Toronto FC), Brad Davis (Houston Dynamo), Mix Diskerud (Rosenborg), Julian Green (Bayern Munich), Jermaine Jones (Besiktas), Graham Zusi (Sporting Kansas City).

Forwards: Jozy Altidore (Sunderland), Clint Dempsey (Seattle Sounders), Aron Johannsson (AZ Alkmaar), Chris Wondolowski (San Jose Earthquakes).

 

[chrissivad]

Group H
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Goalkeepers: Thibaut Courtois (Atletico Madrid, on loan from Chelsea), Simon Mignolet (Liverpool), Sammy Bossut (Zulte Waregem).

Defenders: Toby Alderweireld (Atletico Madrid), Laurent Ciman (Standard Liege), Nicolas Lombaerts (Zenit St Petersburg), Vincent Kompany (Manchester City), Daniel Van Buyten (Bayern Munich), Anthony Vanden Borre (Anderlecht), Thomas Vermaelen (Arsenal), Jan Vertonghen (Tottenham).

Midfielders: Nacer Chadli, Mousa Dembele (both Tottenham), Steven Defour (Porto), Kevin De Bruyne (Wolfsburg), Marouane Fellaini, Adnan Januzaj (both Manchester United), Eden Hazard (Chelsea), Kevin Mirallas (Everton), Divock Origi (Lille), Axel Witsel (Zenit St Petersburg).

Forwards: Romelu Lukaku (Everton, on loan from Chelsea), Dries Mertens (Napoli).

Goalkeepers: Rais Mbolhi (CSKA Sofia), Cedric Si Mohamed (CS Constantine), Mohamed Lamine Zemmamouche (USM Alger).

Defenders: Essaid Belkalem (Watford, on loan from Granada), Madjid Bougherra (Lekhwya Club), Liassine Cadamuro (Mallorca), Faouzi Ghoualm (Napoli), Rafik Halliche (Academica Coimbra), Aissa Mandi (Stade Reims), Carl Medjani (Valenciennes), Djamel Mesbah (Livorno), Mehdi Mostefa (AC Ajaccio).

Midfielders: Nabil Bentaleb (Tottenham), Yasine Brahimi (Granada), Medhi Lacen (Getafe), Saphir Taider (Inter Milan), Hassan Yebda (Udinese).

Forwards: Abdelmoumene Djabou (Club Africain), Sofiane Feghouli (Valencia), Nabil Ghilas (Porto), Riyad Mahrez (Leicester City), Islam Slimani (Sporting Lisbon, Portugal), Hilal Soudani (Dinamo Zagreb).

Goalkeepers: Igor Akinfeev (CSKA Moscow), Yury Lodygin (Zenit St Petersburg), Sergey Ryzhikov (Rubin Kazan).

Defenders: Vasili Berezutskiy (CSKA Moscow), Vladimir Granat (Dynamo Moscow), Andrey Eshchenko (Anzhi Makhachkala), Sergey Ignashevich (CSKA Moscow), Alexey Kozlov (Dynamo Moscow), Dmitry Kombarov (Spartak Moscow), Andrey Semenov (Terek Grozny), Georgi Schennikov (CSKA Moscow).

Midfielders: Denis Glushakov (Spartak Moscow), Igor Denisov (Dynamo Moscow), Alan Dzagoev (CSKA Moscow), Yury Zhirkov (Dynamo Moscow), Alexey Ionov (Dynamo Moscow), Pavel Mogilevets (Rubin Kazan), Alexander Samedov (Lokomotiv Moscow), Victor Faizulin (Zenit St Petersburg), Oleg Shatov (Zenit St Petersburg).

Forwards : Maxim Kanunnikov (Amkar Perm), Alexander Kerzhakov (Zenit St Petersburg), Alexander Kokorin (Dynamo Moscow).

Goalkeepers: Jung Sung-ryeong (Suwon Bluewings), Kim Seung-gyu (Ulsan Horang-i), Lee Bum-young (Busan I'Park)

Defenders: Yun Suk-young (QPR), Kim Young-kwon (Guangzhou Evergrande), Hwang Seok-ho (Sanfrecce Hiroshima), Hong Jeong-ho (Augsburg), Kwak Tae-hwi (Al Hilal), Lee Yong (Ulsan Horang-i), Kim Chang-soo (Kashiwa Reysol), Park Joo-ho (Mainz)

Midfielders: Ki Seung-yueng (Sunderland, on loan from Swansea), Ha Dae-sung (Beijing Guoan), Han Kook-young (Kashiwa Reysol), Park Jung-woo (Guangzhou R&F), Son Heung-min (Bayer Leverkusen), Kim Bo-kyung (Cardiff City), Lee Chung-yong (Bolton Wanderers), Ji Dong-won (Augsburg).

Forwards: Koo Ja-cheol (Mainz), Lee Keun-ho (Sangju Sangmu), Park Chu-young (Arsenal), Kim Shin-wook (Ulsan Horang-i).

 

[Lufti]

USA my surprise pick for group G

 

[Syn_13]

USA my surprise pick for group G

That is a great group. Germany will have enough in them to go through but it'll be tough. USA, Ghana and Portugal are all teams that can give you a hard time. I'll watch every game of that group.

 

[tobi]

Filipe Luis should have been picked instead of Maxwell.

 

[UncleBuck]

Is Carlo Costly for Honduras a wind up!?
And what's with Nigeria taking four keepers? Have they got a Schumacher as their number one?!?

 

[chrissivad]

Is Carlo Costly for Honduras a wind up!?
And what's with Nigeria taking four keepers? Have they got a Schumacher as their number one?!?

some teams are only provisional and will need to be cut down before the world cup.

 

[beats1]

I think Lamela will be picked for Argentina provisional squad but What about Klose making the world cup squad for Germany, its insane. One goal and klose becomes the all time joint top scorer in world cups.

I love how he recently came out and said this world cup will be his last

 

[Lufti]

I think Lamela will be picked for Argentina provisional squad but What about Klose making the world cup squad for Germany, its insane. One goal and klose becomes the all time joint top scorer in world cups.

I love how he recently came out and said this world cup will be his last

Max Meyer and Goretzka could make the Germany squad Add Höwedes and Draxler, maybe Fährmann if I'm being optimistic and that's 5 Schalke boys, not to mention Sidney Sam who's joining in the summer

 

[Lufti]

Pretty happy with the squad, don't understand choosing Khedira over Gündogan though, both been out for a long time but Ilkay is better.

Great to see Goretzka, Meyer, Volland, Ginter and Hahn getting recognition.

@chrissivad you can update the German squad:

Spoiler

Tor

Manuel Neuer

Roman Weidenfeller

Ron-Robert Zieler

★★★

ABWEHR

Jerome Boateng

Erik Durm

Kevin Großkreutz

Benedikt Höwedes

Mats Hummels

Marcell Jansen

Philipp Lahm

Per Mertesacker

Shkodran Mustafi

Marcel Schmelzer

★★★

MITTELFELD

Lars Bender

Julian Draxler

Matthias Ginter

Leon Goretzka

Mario Götze

André Hahn

Sami Khedira

Toni Kroos

Maximilian Meyer

Thomas Müller

Mesut Özil

Lukas Podolski

Marco Reus

André Schürrle

Bastian Schweinsteiger

★★★

STURM

Miroslav Klose

Kevin Volland

My guess for the final 23:

Neuer, Weidenfeller, Zieler, Boateng, Höwedes, Hummels, Lahm, Mertesacker, Schmelzer, Großkreutz, L.Bender, Draxler, Kroos, Müller, Meyer, Reus, Götze, Özil, Podolski, Schürrle, Schweinsteiger, Klose, Volland,

 

[onthetwo]

will we actually have any players there except Paulinho?
Denmark arent there i dont htink, Walker must be a big doubt.....who am i missing, Brad?
Maybe our squad aint as great as we all think?

 

[Lufti]

will we actually have any players there except Paulinho?
Denmark arent there i dont htink, Walker must be a big doubt.....who am i missing, Brad?
Maybe our squad aint as great as we all think?

Bentaleb, Paulinho, Lamela, Lloris, Walker, Vertonghen, Chadli, Dembele

 

[XSuicideBunnyX]

will we actually have any players there except Paulinho?
Denmark arent there i dont htink, Walker must be a big doubt.....who am i missing, Brad?
Maybe our squad aint as great as we all think?

Hugo, Vertonghen, Chadli, Bentaleb defo.
Lamela, Capoue, Dembélé, Walker, Townsend are doubts because of injuries (i.e. if they weren't injured, they would be going)

 

[onthetwo]

Bentaleb, Paulinho, Lamela, Paulinho, Lloris, Walker, Vertonghen, Chadli, Dembele

forgot about all the Belgians (and Hugo ffs)! Surely if Lamela is there it will be as some kind of mascot?

 

[chrissivad]

will we actually have any players there except Paulinho?
Denmark arent there i dont htink, Walker must be a big doubt.....who am i missing, Brad?
Maybe our squad aint as great as we all think?

Hugo, Vertonghen, Chadli, Dembele, Bentaleb?, Lamela (very slim chance)

Brad wont be there as a player.

 

[XSuicideBunnyX]

forgot about all the Belgians (and Hugo ffs)! Surely if Lamela is there it will be as some kind of mascot?

Lamela was well used during the qualification, and I think the coach is quite fond of him. He's only missed the last call-up to Argentina because he was injured.

 

[onthetwo]

Lamela was well used during the qualification, and I think the coach is quite fond of him. He's only missed the last call-up to Argentina because he was injured.

what other club can spend £30m on a player, never play him for one reason or another and then see him play for his national team at the WC? You couldnt make it up sometimes...

 

[Lufti]

Shkodran Mustafi

@Syn_13 He plays in Serie A. I want a low-down on my desk by 1.

 

[L-man]

Bentaleb, Paulinho, Lamela, Paulinho, Lloris, Walker, Vertonghen, Chadli, Dembele

TWO PAULINHOS?!?! Is there anything worse?

 

[coyspurs18]

@Lufti I found this article a few moments ago and noticed Mustafi was listed. There isn't much info but thought I'd share anyhow. http://outsideoftheboot.com/2014/04...10-young-players-who-deserve-to-go-to-brazil/