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Useful Links for the Soccer Nerd

FIFA World Cup™ - Home Page — The Guv'nors, so to speak. Get the latest news, schedules and results directly from the horse's mouth before anyone else can because they know the results even before the starting whistle is blown. Hey ... I'm only joking, OK?

• Match Schedule Stage 1
• Match Schedule Stage 2
• World Cup Calendar Schedule
• Groups & Standings with Overview, News, Analysis ... and Scores and more.
• Official Documents List [pdfs] — check out the Regulations.

BBC Sport — World Cup 2006 — Everything including a predictor. After studying it I decided to put my money on Angola.

• Team Guides — Group by group, team by team including official websites.
• World Cup Wall Chart — Download and print for your nephew. Then buy a new printer.
• Predict The World Cup Results

ESPN Soccernet — News and more news; no doubt biding their time.

• Wall Chart — maybe it prints good.
• Photo Gallery — teams, stars... maybe girls? Maybe not.

Soccerphile World Cup 2006 — Travel, Tickets, Weather, Profiles, Matches, Venues ... even a community. Click all the ads and you'll help send someone to college. In a Mercedes.

• Groups Overview — uniforms in lieue of flags! Know what to wear on the night—or what not to—which is equally important.
• December 2005 FIFA World Rankings — or any month.

Other Sites worth visiting

• Official World Cup Site of the German Gov't — Multilingual with a flash countdown and map. Love the teutonic source code.
• German Foreign Office World Cup Site — Soccer in Germany Root Page — pick a language to unroot. Well-written, as you'd expect.
• Fan Guide 2006 — for those going to Germany. Well worth a pretend if you're not.
• World Cup Blog — country blogs and comments. I wouldn't want to encourage you to roil an ethnic group, even if that'll generate hits.

Check the Time — What ... you don't trust our clock? Neither do we — click below and tell us if [cough] they [cough] are wrong.

• Current Berlin Time — Central European Time [CET]
• Berlin time versus yours