Group C is made up of two European giants and a host nation. Spain， Germany and Brazil are the three teams in this group with Portugal joining it as an automatic qualifier for EUROs to follow on from Euro ’96. Uruguay will be there too but they have just qualified via CONMEBOL’s second tier， Copa América. Mexico was automatically eliminated so we can expect our hosts to qualify top or at worst runners up. With France not qualifying， who would you choose？ And what about USA's chances coming back into contention after missing out last time round.
I think that I am going to go with my gut feeling here and say that Germany will win the tournament if Argentina do not make it through the group stages， despite losing by more than one goal against their rivals Italy. It looks like the team has finally shaken off its jinxed tag after years where nothing much went right. The players look motivated now and hungry to beat everyone.
Pep Guardiola won his first trophy at Bayern Munich while coaching Barcelona and then he coached Dortmund to glory， winning all four competitions – Bundesliga， German cup and Champions League. In addition Pep had a great record during his time at Barcelona. There really aren't many coaches around him that match those achievements and I believe he deserves respect because of his track record. I also feel he understands how to get the best out of his players. He might never work again in football but his career shows no signs of fading away any time soon.
