Oops, just noticed the spreadsheet attachment didn't go thru, perhaps G-L doesn't support attachments. If you (Ginny) or anyone else at G-L would like to have the spreadsheet then let me know and give me your email address, I'll fire it out to you.
Alieu
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From: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Alieu Jawara
Sent: Saturday, June 10, 2006 6:51 PM
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Subject: Re: Soccer / World Cup Questions.

Hello Sister Ginny, please find attached a spread sheet that automatically calculates the standing of each team based on its score. As you can see there are four teams in the first round of games and they all get to play each other. The top two teams after the round robins proceed to the knock out stage. The knock out stage is based on only one game; winner goes to the next round and loser goes home! The spreadsheet will automatically copy/paste the team in the appropriate box for the next round and all the way to the finals and ultimately the world champion. 
I laugh when the Americans call NBA/NFL champions "world Champs" when only American and may be Canadian teams participate in the entire championship. The world cup of soccer has 32 teams at the final tournament but every country in the world participates in the qualification for almost two years. There is a statistics I heard that "more countries participate in the world cup of soccer than there are in the United Nations". 
Each team fields 11 players including the goalie. Teams can end up with less than 11 if a team member gets a Red Card. Being a soccer coach/player I can talk about positions forever but briefly most teams play a conventional 4-4-2 where you have a goalie, 4 defenders, 4 midfielders and 2 forwards. 
The scores in soccer are not as high as in basketball. Scores like 4 - 2 are actually high scoring but the excitement is not just in scoring goals as Americans see it. There are some very exciting games that end up 0 - 0. Games are 90 minutes long (two 45 mins halves). There are no tie breakers in the round robin games but at the knock out stages ties are broken by playing an extra 30 mins (two 15 mins halves) and if it's still tied then penalty shoot outs.
Hope this helps a bit.
WasSalaam.
Alieu

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From: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Ginny Quick
Sent: Saturday, June 10, 2006 12:09 PM
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Subject: Soccer / World Cup Questions.

Hello, guys, I was looking at the World Cup official site (not sure why as I usually don't follow soccer), and I have some questions.  Could someone explain how the game of soccer actually works?  How many players are there, what positions do they play, what is the object of the game?  It seems awfully exciting, from what I've heard on radio broadcasts and on TV, but unlike basketball where I can hear the dribbling of the ball, and sometimes I can hear when they actually score the basket, with soccer and the same with American football, you really don't hear that much.


     But it seems exciting, and I just wanna know more.


     Why is it that most of the world is so excited about soccer when most Americans really don't follow it that much?  

     How does the World Cup actually work?  How are the teams selected?  Once a team gets to the world cup, how does the tournament actually work?  If a team gets defeated, say, either yesterday or today for this World Cup, does that mean that they are out of the tournament?  Kind of like "win or go home!", as I hear some of the broadcasters say on some of the NBA games, especially when you're like in Game 7 of the best of 7, or the team who has already won 3 games in a best of 7 has a hcance to win Game 4 and thus send the other team home.


     Anyway, I guess I like sports more than most women, or at least, stereotypically, most women don't like sports.  But I follow basketball and American football, though I don't like baseball much.  And I follow the Nascar races if I happen to be at my dad's house or another family memeber who is watching it.  


     And I also like track and field and gymnastics.  So there you go.


     Hope you guys are having a good weekend.  And hope the soccer aficionados on the list can help me out, 'cause I'm completely ignorant, well, mostly so, of how soccer works.


Take care all.


Ginny


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