With less than a week to go before the opening match in the 2010 (smow) Designer Furniture World Cup the 16 competing nations have been busy finalising their preparations.
Co-favourites USA arrived in South Africa from their training camp in Denmark in good spirits, team manager George Nelson however avoided answering the question as to how he saw his team's chances with the answer that “the simple joy of taking an idea into one's own hands and giving it proper form, that's exciting.”
For joint co-favourites Germany, however, their preparation has been hampered by the loss of captain Dieter Rams following a foul in a test spiel against Ghana. Also England will have to do without their injury plagued midfield play-maker Terence Conrad.
The opening match of the 2010 Designer Furniture World Cup between Italy and Denmark takes place on Thursday June 10th and (smow)blog will be reporting on all matches at (smow)2010.
Group A Group B Group C Group D Denmark Germany England USA Italy Holland Scotland Finland Switzerland Canada Japan France Belgium Spain Israel Mexico
