for Golden Boot winner,
the Golden Bull breakout star. Let's come to you. First on
those kind of three.
What are you what are your picks for those particular
Awards in this tournament
here I had a head money originally going for the golden
boots was kind of thrown me off a bit and I think I'm going to
have to make an extreme Audible and go to Killian and Bombay
who is the same reason that? I think England won't make it to
the semi-final. I just don't know how I have them running
into Ants and I don't know how England stops France
the way as presently constructed. So
I have him as potentially going double double on the, on
the Golden Ball and the Golden Boot. But if I want to go
differently,
I will go for a surprise
and that would be
named our I think Neymar is still going to be given every
opportunity to not sub out every opportunity to score in
every game
and it has to be somebody from Brazil and he's the one I bet
to play
in most attacking scenarios. And he, what about you? Golden
Ball. Golden boo. Boo breakout star. Who you looking for?
Yeah, so Golden Ball. I don't think I gave my World Cup
winner prediction and so this will tie in real nicely here.
The crowning moment of the lifetime of Lionel, Messi,
Argentina, back-to-back years
Copa, America, World Cup, I think getting that monkey off
of the back. And I think also we saw last summer how together
the Argentina team was and how much they rallied around messy
and the way that they celebrated obviously winning
Copa America. But celebrated him winning a major trophy
International think that was huge. And so I see him as
a playmaker, just a pastor, a goal creator for this team that
has a lot of options up top to put the ball in the back of
the net. He might not have the legs of used
to, I think this is going to be a really stand out tournament
from an assist perspective from Lionel, Messi, obviously, MBA
pay going to be in there. I think Emilio Martinez has
a huge tournament as well and gets consideration
for a Golden Ball type award, but the Golden Boot MBA, pay
I got to go with Nick there. I just think the Power. The
France have, they're going to have to outscore teams in
the way that they haven't had to in the past. I think
that'll feed into his staffs very well.
Okay, so I'm going to go for mine.
I'm going to go for Harry Kane, to get the Golden Boot.
Obviously, having then go into the final. So I think they're
going to go pretty deep.
And then for the Golden Ball, I'm gonna go with the initiates
jr. I just think he's come up clutches. So many big moments
around Madrid. He's so young still, but
the fact he has that experience
starting from Brazil and such a fluid front, three. A 45,
whatever you want to call it, with the deck, which actually
end up playing. I can see him win the golden born, being
the player tournament and breakout star muscular for Germany.
I just yeah,
whenever you see him play for buying
again, he's so young
but he's just so exciting and so calm, he's kind of reminds
me of
a Philipp, Lahm kind of type. He's just so clever on the ball
was positioning, but he can get forward a bit more than landed
and create score goals and I think Germany you're gonna have
a sneaky, good tournament. So there's my predictions.
Right there. So final one everyone wants to notice Lads
Dark Horse team
quickly. One team that you think is going to do really.
Well it's all about Andy come to you first. Yeah, Uruguay all
the way to the semifinals. Like I said, it's everything is
perfectly set up in all the ways that it feels
like. It's not for say the US Men's National Team. The
schedule the order of games, the experience, the major
tournaments in the past. All of those things, it feels like
weird. Why has all of that? I would be very very not only
disappointed but I would be very Rise. That they're not at
least in the quarterfinals.
Nick,
I would normally be with any, so I'm but I'm gonna go
a little differently. I'm with him, that is Uruguay,
but if it counts as a dark horse, just to make it out of
the group, especially in a group with Germany and Spain,
I have Japan getting out of the group. I think are very good if
they can defend, they'll get the job done.
Absolutely. I'm going with, Sofia, I just think the way
they all set up, how many great attacking players, they haven't
really good form.
I can just see them get into the court as maybe even further
than that and I I think they're really underrated with
the quality of players they have.