The biggest sporting event of the year 2007 is going to start in another 50 odd days in the Caribbean islands.Despite the initial doubt in the air about the West Indies' capability in conducting the sporting event of this kind,it seems be everything is going on smoothly and the country has geared up with12 stadia in 9 venues.
Some Statistics of the Current World Cup
Total number of teams participating : 16
Groups and Compositions: 4[A,B,C and D]
Group A : Australia,South Africa,Scotland and The Netherlads
Group B : Sri Lanka,India,Bangladesh and Bermuda
Group C : New Zealad,England,Kenya and Canada
Group D : Pakistan,West Indies,Zimbabwe and Ireland
The event will start with 16 warm up matches on Mon 05 Mar.
The Opening Ceremony is on Sun 11 Mar.The actual contest wll start with Host competing with Pakistan on Tue 13 Mar and will close on Sat 28 Apr at Barbados.
Links for reference
Teams taking Part in the World Cup
Team Grouping
Match Schedule
Match Venues
"Join the Blue Billion".This is the phrase we are coming across very frequently in the Indian television channels these days.Whats it all about.Of course its a marketing gimmick.Here Blue is the colour code of Indian Cricket team and Billion represents the population of India.Whenever a major tourney like World Cup approaches this kind of catchy phrases like "Hoo Haa India " ,"Common India" etc will be floating across in this cricket mad country.
This time as the 2007 World cup is fast approaching and as part of the ongoing iccchampionstrophy , Pepsi India has come up with this phrase.Not this all , partnering with Yahoo it has launched a website that will be active till this worldcup.The website host several contests,Quizzes and wallpers,screen savers etc for downloading.Not this all it will let you earn some credits for various activities as shown like Participating in a promotion,Referring Friends,Downloading wallpapers/screen savers/media skins etc.,And here goes the offers you can avail the earned credits Offers.
The counter on the home page says so far 224009 have become part of the blue billion.That mean 1 out of every 50 has already become part of the blue billion.If you wanna be part of the blue billion ping this website BlueBillion with your Yahoo email ID.
The biggest sport event of the year has started yesterday in Germany.For complete coverage from the official fifa site ,click here http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com/- Desktop SW : ibnlive.com , a news portal brings us an easy installable deskop SW that offers live scores, schedules, Team profiles , latest news etc.,Click here for details on how to install the application and use it.http://www.ibnlive.com/features/fifa/
- Mobile For those who want to see live updates of the on going football world cup in Germany on the go point your mobile browser to http://fifa.com.
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