Ten reasons why Germany will win
...But who else aside from Germany could win the FIFA WC?
Brazil France, or maybe Spain ,
Belgium. England, Argentina, Portugal...less likely
Somethings to watchout for in 2018:
Not the Italian or Netherlands teams - they missed qualification
Group D the pool of death.. Iceland the thunderclappers, Argentina and Messi...Nigeria, Croatia
English football
_And will the WC be starting with a bang ? ...Yes according to the Chechens..
US backed Ukraine also tipped to launch a major offensive in Donbas during the WC - drama for President Putin with plenty wanting to rain on his parade...
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Operation Barbarossa began on 22 June 1941, when Adolf Hitler’s Wehrmacht invaded the Soviet Union. The Red Army was overwhelmed. It lost millions of men as it was pushed back deep into Soviet territory. Just over a year after first crossing the border, German soldiers reached the Volga River, at a city with a location that made it strategic and a name that made it irresistible.
According to most estimates, in just the first week of German bombing Stalingrad lost 40,000 civilians, almost as many as Britain lost during the whole of the Blitz. The Soviet death toll continued to be horrific as its troops poured across the river to defend their shrinking footprint on the right bank, battling suicidally in what the Germans called Rattenkrieg, the war of the rats. After three grinding months, Soviet tanks counterattacked, smashing the flanks of Germany’s Sixth Army and trapping its soldiers in the city.
In February 1943, the 91,000 Axis troops still alive – including 22 generals – surrendered. Half a million Soviet soldiers had died to secure this defeat, but it turned the course of the Second World War, transforming the battle of Stalingrad into the most heroic chapter in the Russians’ “Great Victory”. Just two tiny pockets of the city’s riverbank never fell to the Germans and the site of Volgograd Arena is one of them. The stadium where England play their first match sits on perhaps the most sacred ground in all of Russia.
... 2018 and the FIFA WC is kicking off in Russia...Germany is going in confident again....shots will be fired Orson Wells described sport as war minus the shooting but you can't rely on own goals here .
According to some Germany could win the WC with the players they left at home such is their depth..
https://www.bundesliga.com/en/news/Bundesliga/how-germany-could-look-at-the-2018-world-cup-in-russia-447224.jsp