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| The victorious Brazil players with the 2002 World Cup in Yokohama |
Kingston: Irfan Pathan, Munaf Patel and Yalaka Venugopal Rao aren’t interested in soccer, but their teammates are. As for coach Greg Chappell, he used to be a big fan, but hasn’t exactly been following soccer in recent times. Barring the trio, the rest spoke to The Telegraph (at the Hilton) and made their pick for the forthcoming World Cup.
Here goes (alphabetically):
Favourite team
Ajit Agarkar: Brazil.
Greg Chappell: Used to be Brazil...
Mahendra Singh Dhoni: Brazil.
Rahul Dravid: Brazil.
Mohammed Kaif: Portugal.
Ramesh Powar: Brazil.
Suresh Raina: England.
Virender Sehwag: Brazil.
Harbhajan Singh: Brazil.
Rudra Pratap Singh: Brazil.
Yuvraj Singh: England.
Sreesanth: Brazil.
Robin Uthappa: Brazil.
Likely winner of the 2006 World
Cup
Agarkar: Argentina or Brazil.
Chappell: Certainly won’t be Australia!
Dhoni: Brazil, obviously.
Dravid: Brazil.
Kaif: Portugal. I backed them in the last Euro as well.
Powar: Brazil.
Raina: England.
Sehwag: Can’t say.
Harbhajan: Brazil.
Rudra Pratap: Brazil.
Yuvraj: England or Brazil.
Sreesanth: England.
Uthappa: Brazil or England.
Favourite player
Agarkar: Zidane, Ronaldinho... Earlier, it would be Diego Maradona.
Chappell: Nobody from the present times... I used to be a fan of Pele, Bobby Charlton and George Best.
Dhoni: Zidane.
Dravid: Ronaldinho.
Kaif: Thierry Henry, Frank Lampard.
Powar: Roberto Carlos.
Raina: Wayne Rooney.
Sehwag: Ronaldinho.
Harbhajan: Ronaldinho.
Rudra Pratap: Ronaldinho, Ronaldo.
Yuvraj: Ruud Van Nistelrooy.
Sreesanth: Ronaldinho.
Uthappa: Rooney.
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