EU surprises so far:
- Denmark and Hungary (!) in front of Portugal (EU group 1)
- Czech Republic only on place 4 in their group (EU 3)
- Bosnia-Herzegovina on place 2, four points ahead of Turkey (EU 5)
- Romania only on place 5 (!) in their group (EU 7)
- Norway on last place (!) in their group
(EU 9; did no one tell them that place 2 in this group of only 5 teams still gives you the chance to proceed to the play-off if you're among the 8 out of 9 best runner-ups?)
- France would really be in trouble right now if they hadn't an exceptional player called Franck Ribéry (he decided the last two games for his country)
- England won 5 out of 5 games in a not-so-weak group with Croatia and Ukraine; Capello seems to fit better than his two unlucky predecessors
Africa: too early to tell (but I hope Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire will win their groups)
NA: USA in the lead is no real surprise, I think Mexico only on place 4 is the real surprise at the moment (but only 3 games played until now, still 7 to go)
Asia, Oceania: no surprises, I guess
SA: close competition
A question to the South-American members:
Paraguay in the lead seems to be a surprise to me, but I'm not sure if it's really one. Where they already that strong during the past few years?
