2010 World Cup - South Africa

[vikingBerserker]

Wow on Isreal and Czech

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Those scores really are not much. They played Luxembourg and San Marino. They are not really good teams and are made up of average joes like you and me. Germany beat Luxembourg 11-1 the last time and they beat San Marino 13-0 the last time.

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

A few more games have been played and here are the latest teams to have qualified:

South Africa (Host)
Australia
Japan
South Korea
North Korea
Netherlands
Brazil
Ghana
England
Paraguay
Spain

Teams that will most likely qualify (I guess you could say these are my predictions of who the rest of the teams will be, it will be updated as they qualify or don't qualify):

Côte d'Ivoire
Algeria
Nigeria
Cameroon
Denmark
Switzerland
Greece
Germany
Russia
Slovakia
France
Italy
Serbia
Croatia
United States
Mexico
Honduras
Chile
Argentina
Columbia

Here are the latest group standings:

Europe

Africa

Asia

N. America/Central America

Oceana

S. America

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Well yesterday was the latest qualification games for the World Cup 2010. In the one that interested me the most Germany beat Russia 1-0 and qualified for the World Cup 2010 in South Africa.

Here is the full list of teams that have qualified:

South Africa (Host)
Australia
Japan
South Korea
North Korea
Netherlands
Brazil
Ghana
England
Paraguay
Spain
Germany
Chile
Côte d'Ivoire
Denmark
Serbia
Italy
United States
Mexico


Teams that will most likely qualify (I guess you could say these are my predictions of who the rest of the teams will be, it will be updated as they qualify or don't qualify):

Algeria
Nigeria
Cameroon
Switzerland
Greece
Russia
Slovakia
France
Croatia
Honduras
Argentina
Columbia
New Zealand

Here were the latest matches:

Greece 5-2 Latvia
Israel 3-1 Moldova
Spain 2-1 Armenia
Portugal 3-0 Hungary
Belgium 2-0 Turkey
Czech Republic 2-0 Poland
Slovenia 2-0 Slovakia
Denmark 1-0 Sweden
Azerbaijan 2-0 Liechtenstein
Ukraine 1-0 England
Argentina 2-1 Peru
Germany 1-0 Russia
Bosnia 2-0 Estonia
Bahrain 0-0 New Zealand
Belarus 4-0 Kazakhstan
Switzerland 3-0 Luxembourg
Paraguay 2-1 Venezuela
Chile 4-2 Columbia
Uruguay 2-1 Ecuador
Finland 2-1 Wales

 

[imalko]

Serbia qualified by scoring 5-0 against Romania last night.

 

[kgambit]

USA beat Honduras 3-2 and are now guaranteed a spot. (Edit: Missed the USA on the list above .... HOW I managed that I will never know. )

 

[Colin1]

Some of the venues look a bit seedy, to be honest

South African World Cup venues 2010 - CNN.com

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Yeah I am a bit skeptical about how this World Cup is going to play out...

 

[rochie]

i hope they do a good job of hosting the world cup, they seem to manage rugby and cricket tours well enough but i imagine there might be a lot more people travelling for the world cup finals though

 

[Colin1]

Scores update automatically

BBC SPORT | Football | Live - Wednesday's football

 

[CharlesBronson]

Be interesting to see who actually gets there

Would the World Cup miss Argentina? - CNN.com

Will not

MARADONA GOES TO SOUTH AFRIKA !!!!!

With a last gap goals ( two actually if we count the sunday one of Palermo) we go to African Wold Cup, ha. somehow he pull it off.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RL-kzC6L_w

Chinese comentators get grazy with palermos s goal


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LGo1CKx_8Y

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

We had some more qualification games. Here is the updated list of teams that will be present in South Africa:

South Africa (Host)
Australia
Japan
South Korea
North Korea
Netherlands
Brazil
Ghana
England
Paraguay
Spain
Germany
Chile
Côte d'Ivoire
Denmark
Serbia
Italy
United States
Mexico
Slovakia
Honduras
Paraguay
Argentina

There are 9 slots left to be qualified for.

The Following teams from Europe have qualified for the European playoff rounds for the final 4 Euro slots in the World Cup which will be played in November:

Portugal
Greece
Slovenia
Russia
Bosnia-Herzegovina
Ukraine
France
Republic of Ireland

Bahrain and New Zealand still have to play in November one more time for a slot in the World Cup. The last game was tied 0-0.

Costa Rica and Uruguay will play in a two legged play off for a slot in the World Cup.

 

[Colin1]

The following teams from Europe have qualified for the European playoff rounds for the final 4 Euro slots in the World Cup which will be played in November:

Portugal
Greece
Slovenia
Russia
Bosnia-Herzegovina
Ukraine
France
Republic of Ireland

Bit weird seeing France in there...

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Bit weird seeing France in there...

Not really. France typically has never been really reallly really successful. Yeah they have won the World Cup a few times, but overall they have not been as successful internationally such as teams like Brazil, Italy and Germany. For instance at the Euro 2008 they did not even make it out of the group stage.

They are still a good team though, and I hope they progress to the World Cup. I would rather see them in it than Italy (they all ready qualified though...).

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

The drawing has taken place for the playoff leg of the European groups. The top 8 2nd place teams will compete in a 2 leg playoff for the final 4 spots. Each team will play a home and away game against each other, with the games taking place Nov. 14 and Nov. 18, 2009. Here are the opponents.

Republic of Ireland - France
Russia - Slovenia
Greece - Ukraine
Portugal - Bosnia-Herzegovina

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Germany has canceled the game against Chili this coming Saturday due to goal keeper Robert Enke committing suicide on Tuesday.

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

South Africa (Host)
Australia
Japan
South Korea
North Korea
Netherlands
Brazil
Ghana
England
Paraguay
Spain
Germany
Chile
Côte d'Ivoire
Denmark
Serbia
Italy
United States
Mexico
Slovakia
Honduras
Paraguay
Argentina
New Zealand
Nigeria
Ghana
Cameroon


There are 6 slots left to be qualified for.

Egypt and Algeria will play each other in a playoff on the 18th of the November for one of the 6 slots.

Costa Rica was beaten by Uruguay 1-0 in the first round of the playoff for one of the 5 slots. The final game will be on the 18th of November.

The first round of European playoffs for the final 4 slots is over.

France 1-0 Republic of Ireland
Portugal 1-0 Bosnia Herzegovina
Greece 0-0 Ukraine
Russian 2-1 Slovenia

The 2nd round will be held on the 18th and then all the slots for the World Cup will be taken.

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

The final slots for the World Cup in 2010 have been awarded.

South Africa (Host)
Australia
Japan
South Korea
North Korea
Netherlands
Brazil
Ghana
England
Paraguay
Spain
Germany
Chile
Côte d'Ivoire
Denmark
Serbia
Italy
United States
Mexico
Slovakia
Honduras
Paraguay
Argentina
New Zealand
Nigeria
Ghana
Cameroon
Algeria
France
Portugal
Uruguay
Slovenia
Greece

The final playoff matches were played as follows:

Uruguay 1-1 Costa Rice (Uruguay wins 2-1 on aggragate)
Slovenia 1-0 Russia (Slovenia wins 2-2 on aggragate)
Greece 1-0 Ukraine (Greece wins 1-0 on aggragate)
France 1-1 Ireland (France wins 2-1 on aggragate)
Portugal 1-0 Bosnia Herzegovina (Portugal wins 2-0 on aggragate)

The drawing for the World Cup groups will be conducted on 4 December 2009.

 

[Colin1]

Slovenia 1-0 Russia (Slovenia wins 2-2 on aggregate)

So
the mighty Guus Hidd-ink fails to qualify

Sorry about the hyphen, it does a weird blue icon thing if I leave it out

Here, watch -------- Hiddink

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

I think this is going to be an interesting World Cup. I am really looking forward to see what the group drawing on the 4th of December has in store for us.