The field is set for the first Rocking Soccer World Cup in the Netherlands(World Ranking in parentheses):

(1)Australia,(2)Netherlands,(3)Argentina,(4)South Korea,(5)Spain,(6)France,(7)Czech Republic,(8)Poland,(9)China,(10)Israel,(12)United States,(13)Bosnia and Herzegowina,(14)Ukraine,(15)Hong Kong,(16)Greece,(17)Costa Rica,(18)Morocco,(19)Estonia,(20)Japan,(21)Croatia,(30)Austria,(34)Venezuela,(35)Republic Of Ireland,(36)Singapore,(39)Bolivia,(40)Brazil,(42)Nigeria,(43)Tunisia,(48)India,(55)Sweden,(85)Indonesia, and (91)Puerto Rico.

Thoughts/predictions/favorites/discussions?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joVZEHeAbY4

Bosnian Dragons till the finals!

When the cup play?

It will be played when all regular league's have finished season 4. in the between seasons period, before the start of the league of season 5

I am pleasantly suprised that Puerto Rico got in, as my keeper Ian Best is the reserve for their team. My 3 favorites are Israel, China and Argentina, but it is a wide open tournament so it will be very exciting!

Edit: Costa Rica are looking very strong as well but anybody can lose a match so it will be very exciting.

My top favourites are also China and Israel, and don't forget the home team Nederland.

can someone tell exactly which week the first round starts?

This will be awesome!!

Bullseye: the week beginning 26 of August.

First of all, congrats to all qualified team!

One question: Has any qualified team been playing international friendlies last week. Spain did not play any friendly during play-offs ...

Japan also haven't any friendly match.

Nope, no friendlies for Australia. Although, I did see my players unavailable due to NT duties at one stage.

Yeah, I had friendlies during play-offs.

Very strange. Israel played also one more friendly game at the playoffs days.

Israel is certainly a very strong team but i'm not sure that well enough balanced. We have an amazing midfielders but our goalkeeper is not one of the best and our forwards are not as good as in some other top contestants.

I would say favorites would have to be Argentina and Netherlands(obviously Australia, but I'm going with these 2). Both teams are very strong from top-to-bottom; looking through the teams, my "outsider" team that could go far is Bosnia-Herzegowina, they look very strong. I'm pulling for USA but I'm going in expecting nothing and hoping for the best! It should be a fun week when it finally rolls around!