World Cup Corner

Football it’s not called the “Beautiful Game” for nothing. FOX Sports World Cup galleries can show you why.

• Babes of the World Cup
• Soccer wives and girlfriends
• Heidi Klum at World Cup draw
• Sexy World Cup 2006

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Rocky Dixon at SoccerLens.com has posted an interesting post about 10 things he hates around the World Cup 2006.

My favorite one is his number 4:

How people who know next to nothing about the sport, and never really watch it, are all of a sudden football experts. This breed of bottom-feeders shows up in public viewing areas every two years at the Euro and World Cups. Stay in your holes, please. You’re not fooling anyone but your own kind.

Read the full post at 10 Things I Hate About the World Cup.

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Next time you are going to watch a World Cup match on TV try to think about how the picture and sound comes to your home.

30.000 square meter center in Munich is the nerve broadcasting center for the 2006 World Cup TV signal. It’s the first time that every match will be broadcast in 16:9 HDTV. All of this work is being done by Host Broadcast Services (HBS).

Take a look at these impressive numbers:

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Get the latest World Cup 2006 emoticons, winks and other graphics for your MSN Messenger. Blue Mountain offers a variety of products to express yourself and personalize your conversations. Check them out and download some winks.

Do you want a free World Cup Ticket and would like to sit beside a real fan inside a World Cup stadium?

It’s time for you to stop worrying. Join the Largest Online Stadium for free and get connected with thousands of fans from all over the world. Choose the desired block. Choose the desired seat. Dress up your fan (national jerseys, hair-styles, funny outfits, etc.) and that’s it. You earned your free ticket and will experience a different type of watching a World Cup game.

Take a look at me sitting on the left (block C, tribune 18, seat 142).

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While staying in Germany you should, at least once, eat the most popular german sausage - brätwurst.

A bratwurst is a sausage composed of pork, beef, and sometimes veal and is usually eaten with a hot or sweet German mustard or sliced and eaten as Currywurst. Bratwurst is almost always served with a hard German roll and usually accompanied by a beer. It is a very popular snack in Germany and also in other European countries, where it is sold at various fast food outlets and is often consumed while standing.

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World Cup 2006 Tournament Calendar is designed as a Excel spreedsheet with a schedule of all the games of the tournament and a group standing of each team. It automatically calculates the standing of every team without the use of macros. The calculation is based on game score and the rules adopted by FIFA. The calendar is an ideal tool to keep track of World Cup 2006 and impress your friends with insightful predictions.

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The Fanposter is a non-profit fan initiative with the ambitious goal to unite 2006 fans on one large poster. It gives fans from all over the world the opportunity to upload their funniest, craziest, most memorable fan picture and their supporting cheer (statement). This service is entirely free for fans who share passion and enthusiasm for soccer. So far, over 550 fans from 60 countries have subscribed and it’s great seeing this colorful poster growing every day.

Join Fanposter and you can be one of 2006 fans on the official 2006 World Cup Fanposter that will hang at the final game in Berlin!

Check out the Berlin Olympic Stadium, which will host the 2006 World Cup finale, on Google Maps. If you look closer you can see how they water the grass. Great shot!

Stadium: Olympiastadion
Investment: 242 million Euro
Gross Capacity: 74,220
Total Seating Capacity: 66,021

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Watch the webcams from the stadiums in Germany during the FIFA World Cup 2006 on World Cup Webcams.