This starts on Sunday!

Anybody interested? Game on the opening night looks a good one with the hosts and defending champions Germany taking on Canda who won the CONCACAF qualification tournament for the first time.

No sign of the Chinese who were knocked out by North Korea, who are in a group with the USA, who actually lost a game in qualifiers, and thus had to qualify via a playoff against Italy. Sweden are also in that group.

England are in with Japan and Mexico ( who beat the Yanks ) so thats another wide open group, while Norway, Brazil and Australia make group D competitive also.

Few dodgy teams in it like Equitorial Guinea and New Zealand but in general looks like a very competitive and interesting tournament.

Uneducated neck on the line: I think Brazil and Germany will rise to the top again and make the final with home advantage looking like swinging it for the fraulines - hopefully a surprise or two on the way.