World Cup of All Ages

With the World Cup fast approaching, even the football mania exclusion zone that is the PMC is, if not jumping on the bandwagon (whatever a bandwagon is) then at least coughing up some of the dust thrown out behind it.

Yes, we've really sat down and thought about this for literally minutes, and the best we can come up with is this 'What if..?' scenario, using the group charts..

.so, 'what if' all the participating countries didn't have their modern names, but rather names that they went under in an earlier incarnation? For example, Estonia and Russia, neither of which qualified, would be known as 'Livonia' and 'Novgorod' respectively.

Naturally some countries are newer than others, we have done the best we can...

So:

Group A
-Cape Colony.
-Aztec Kingdom of Tenochtitlan.
-Montevideo.
-Gaul.

Group B
-Viceroyalty of the River Plate.
-Lagos.
-Southern Goryeo.
-City States of Sparta, Athens, Ephesus, Lydia, Corinth and all of Ellas.

Group C
-Albion.
-The Thirteen Colonies.
-Numidia.
-Illyria.

Group D
-The Holy Roman Empire.
-New Holland.
-Sclavinias.
-Gold Coast.

Group E
-Friesland.
-Jutland.
-The Kamakura Shogunate.
-The Bornu Empire.

Group F
-The Kingdom of Naples, Duchy of Milan, Republics of Venice,
Florence, Siena and Genoa, the Papal States and the Kingdom of Sicily.
-Asuncion.
-Aotearoa.
-Great Moravia.


Group G
-Cabralia.
- Northern Goryeo.
-French West Africa.
-Lusitania.


Group H
- Kingdoms of Aragon and Navarre.
- Helvetia.
-Copan and Cho'rti.
-Aconcagua.


..that was hard work; I think next time I'll confine it to the European Championships...