UEFA Euro 2008

Strength of potential winner

Portugal has a wealth of talented midfielders. Cristiano Ronaldo and Ricardo Quaresma possess world-class speed and scoring ability, (as do Nani and Simao Sabrosa), while Armando Petit and Joao Moutinho provide the grit, power and strength.been known to employ a 4-3-3, a 5-4-1 and a 3-4-3, depending on the situation and the players available. This level of tactical flexibility means Portugal is not tied to one system, giving the team a decided advantage over their opponents.

Spain has a pair of world-class strikers in Fernando Torres and David Villa. They are supported by a crop of attacking and creative midfielders: Cesc Fabregas, Xabi Alonso, Andres Iniesta and Xavi Hernandez. All of them bring something different to the table, complementing each other beautifully and making Spain's attack more complete.

It used to be that the Netherlands was consumed with playing beautiful soccer (Total Football, as the Dutch called it) even at the expense of winning games. But in the past two years, coach Marco van Basten has instilled his players with a "win by any means" mentality. As a result, the Dutch are no longer slaves to playing beautiful soccer, and are focused on playing winning soccer

With the exception of the goalkeeping position, Italy has great depth. The Italians have plenty of quality players in its attack, as they can call upon forwards the calibre of Luca Toni, Antonio Di Natale, Fabio Quagliarella, Marco Borriello and Alessandro Del Piero. The midfield is full of world-class talent, most notably Andrea Pirlo, Daniele De Rossi, Gennaro Gattuso, Simone Perrotta and Mauro Camoranesi.

My Predictions: 1) Portugal, 2) Spain, 3) Holland, 4) Italy

List of Past Champions

Germany (1972, 1980, 1996)
France (1984, 2000)
Russia (1960)

Czech Republic (1976)
Italy (1968)
Spain (1964)
Holland (1988)
Denmark (1992)
Greece (2004)

Who Will Be The Next Champions of Europe!!!

*kindly vote for the team you think will be the next champions

Brain teasers

If you take a look at the following picture, let me tell you...it is not animated. Your eyes are making it move. To test this, stare at ne spot for a couple of seconds and everything will stop moving. Or look at the black center of each circle and it will stop moving. But move your eyes to the next black center the previous will move after you take your eyes away from it....Weird

Brain Teasers

Question

Three friends check into a motel for the night and the clerk tells them the bill is $30, payable in advance. So, they each pay the clerk $10 and go to their room. A few minutes later, the clerk realizes he has made an error and overcharged the trio by $5. He asks the bellhop to return $5 to the 3 friends who had just checked in. The bellhop sees this as an opportunity to make $2 as he reasons that the three friends would have a tough time dividing $5 evenly among them; so he decides to tell them that the clerk made a mistake of only $3, giving a dollar back to each of the friends. He pockets the leftover $2 and goes home for the day! Now, each of the three friends gets a dollar back, thus they each paid $9 for the room which is a total of $27 for the night. We know the bellhop pocketed $2 and adding that to the $27, you get $29, not $30 which was originally spent. Where did the other dollar go????

Answer

The facts in this riddle are clear: There is an initial $30 charge. It should have been $25, so $5 must be returned and accounted for. $3 is given to the 3 friends, $2 is kept by the bellhop - there you have the $5. The trick to this riddle is that the addition and subtraction are done at the wrong times to misdirect your thinking - and quite successfully for most. Each of the 3 friends did indeed pay $9, not $10, and as far as the friends are concerned, they paid $27 for the night. But we know that the clerk will tell us that they were charged only $25 and when you add the $3 returned with the $2 kept by the bellhop, you come up with $30.

Arsenal - Football's Beautiful Creation

Throughout the recent years, Arsenal FC has left soccer fans across the globe mesmerized. The free-flowing, almost choreographed precision the Gunners posses is something to be appreciated.

As a football fan, this team is certainly something special to watch.This year, they didn’t come home with any shiny silver dishes. They did, however, play with brilliance and beauty just as their predecessors did. I think that’s good enough. According to Arsene Wenger, the average age for his ‘usual’ starting 11 this year was 22.3. That’s an extremely young team. Jens Lehmann, who recently made his exit from Arsenal, reportedly thinks too young.

Rest assured, the likes of Rob Van Persie, Emmanuel Adebayor, Cesc Fabregas, Gael Clichy, and Theo Walcott will have their names among the English record books soon enough.

That in no way means there isn’t anything to gain from this so called “disappointing season”.The dauntingly talented Gunners will have to concentrate on focusing the experience and football knowledge they gained from the season into a more consistent style of football. That’s all. I fully expect Arsenal to bounce back and prove to all of us that they really can mesh their talents into one unstoppable force.

Brain teasers

A few nice brain teasers.

1. A murderer is condemned to death. He has to choose between three rooms. The first is full of raging fires, the second is full of assassins with loaded guns, and the third is full of lions that haven't eaten in 3 years. Which room is safest for him?

2. A woman shoots her husband. Then she holds him under water for over 5 minutes. Finally, she hangs him. But 5 minutes later they both go out together and enjoy a wo nderful dinner together. How can this be?

3. Can you name three consecutive days without using the words Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, or Sunday?

ANSWERS:

1. The third. Lions that haven't eaten in three years are dead.

2. The woman is a photographer. She shot a picture of her husband, developed it, and hung it up to dry.

3. Sure you can: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow!

Joke: Diffrence between Biology & sociology

Que: What’s the difference between biology and sociology?

Ans: When the baby looks like his dad or mom, then it is biology.
When the baby looks like the neighbour, then it is sociology

Joke: Company is like a tree full of monkeys

A company is like a tree full of monkeys, all on different limbs, at different levels, some climbing up, some climbing down.
The monkeys on the top look down and see a tree full of smiling faces.The monkeys on the bottom look up and see nothing but assholes.