WC2010 - Who is going to South Africa

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  1. agoo

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    EUROPE - Group winners advance as well as four of the second place teams after a playoff.
    IN:
    1 - Denmark
    2 - Switzerland
    3 - Slovakia
    4 - Germany
    5 - Spain
    6 - England
    7 - Serbia
    8 - Italy
    9 - Netherlands

    Second place teams: Russia, Greece, Ukraine, France, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Portugal, and Ireland.

    ASIA - Top two teams from each group advance, third place teams play for a chance at the playoff with the OFC winner.
    1 - Australia, Japan
    2 - South Korea, North Korea

    Third place teams: Bahrain defeated Saudi Arabia 2-2 and will face the OFC winner.

    AFRICA
    Still has one match to go. CAF starts with a preliminary draw, resulting in 12 groups of four. The group winners and the best 8 runners up go into the final group. Now, down to five groups, the winner of each will qualify for the World Cup, while the second and third place teams will be in the African Cup of Nations.

    Currently, two teams have qualified - Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire

    South Africa automatically qualifies as the host nation, but participated in qualifying for the African Cup of Nations and was one of the four group runner ups eliminated.

    OCEANIA
    New Zealand won the OFC Nations Cup in 2008 and won the right to enter the qualifier against Bahrain. The first leg was a 0-0 draw and the second will be settled on November 14.

    COMEBOL
    All countries enter a single group and the top four qualify, while the fifth place team faces CONCACAF's fourth place team:
    1 - Brazil
    2 - Chile
    3 - Paraguay
    4 - Argentina

    Uruguay finished fifth and will face Costa Rica.

    CONCACAF
    Several rounds of eliminations result in a hexagonal, with the top three making it to South Africa and the fourth place team facing COMEBOL's fifth place team.
    1 - United States
    2 - Mexico
    3 - Honduras

    Costa Rica finished fourth and will face Uruguay.
     
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    And all of that in list form:

    Argentina - COMEBOL
    Australia - AFC
    Brazil - COMEBOL
    Cameroon - CAF
    Chile - COMEBOL
    Côte d'Ivoire - CAF
    Denmark - UEFA
    England - UEFA
    Germany - UEFA
    Ghana - CAF
    Honduras - CONCACAF
    Italy - UEFA
    Japan - AFC
    Mexico - CONCACAF
    Netherlands - UEFA
    New Zealand - Oceania
    Nigeria - CAF
    North Korea - AFC
    Paraguay - COMEBOL
    Serbia - UEFA
    Slovakia - UEFA
    South Africa - CAF
    South Korea - AFC
    Spain - UEFA
    Switzerland - UEFA
    United States - CONCACAF
     
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    Summary of Africa qualifying:

    Group A
    is led by Cameroon on 10 points, followed by Gabon with 9. Eto'o and company will travel to Morocco, while Gabon goes to Togo on November 14th.

    Group B is led by Tunisia with 11 points, while Nigeria is second with 9. Both seem to have easy roads as Nigeria goes to Kenya and Tunisia goes to Mozambique.

    Group C will be settled as Algeria (1st, 13 points, +7 GD) takes on Egypt (2nd, 10 points, +3 GD) on the 14th. Egypt is hosting and will need to win and win big to make it to the World Cup.

    Group D and Group E are already settled as Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire are going to South Africa.
     
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    Despite all the rivalry between Brazil and Argentina I am glad they qualified to the WC.
     
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    A World Cup without the world's best player in Messi wouldn't have been right. Hate what Maradona is doing there, but like that Argentina made it in spite of him.

    And an update on the UEFA Playoffs, FIFA has announced the seeds:

    SEEDED - France, Portugal, Russia and Greece
    UNSEEDED - Ukraine, Republic of Ireland, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Slovenia

    I still think this is some bullshit to get certain teams in. If they were that much better, they would have made it in on their own. If you really wanted to do seeding, use the 1-8 standings that they already have established. Here's what the match-ups would be:
    1 - Russia v. 8 - Republic of Ireland
    2 - Greece v. 7 - Portugal
    3 - Ukraine v. 6 - Bosnia and Herzegovina
    4 - France v. 5 - Slovenia
     
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    I'm not sure what the hell happened to Ireland.
     
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    That would be nice an fair, because we would beat Ukraine. But what FIFA is doing is stupid.


    If Bosnia makes it to the World Cup we deserve to be there more then anyone. Think about it look at the group at the beginning of the campaign, Spain, Turkey and Belgium were all top 20 in the World and we were freaking 74th or 76th in the World! Then for 2 months we had a boycott and it looked like we weren't even going to go to the WCQ to even play it in. And now we are 42nd in the World have a top 5 best attack in Europe!

    And now we have to go through the playoffs to face either, France, Portugal, Russia, or Greece all top 16 in the World, I know you cannot find a tougher road then what Bosna i Hercegovia have been on, so if we quailfy and we don't even win a match our first ever time in the World Cup as an independent nation, I don't want to hear any bollocks come from anyone saying we shouldn't have been there.

    We deserves our damn spot there, unlike seem teams around the world who had to play 5 foot midgets and still struggled with them to win.
     
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    The UEFA draw is out.

    Ireland v. France
    Portugal v. Bosnia and Herzegovina
    Greece v. Ukraine
    Russia v. Slovenia

    Should be some good matches on the 14th and 18th.
     
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    What an absolute wankfest.
     
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    [video=youtube;S-QXaa0kKTM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-QXaa0kKTM&feature=player_embedded[/video]

    That's intense. Egyptian fans attack the Algeria bus. (found form duNord).
     
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    Yeah, I read that earlier. That's fucked.
     
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    Winners for the double

    Ireland v. France
    Portugal v. Bosnia and Herzegovina
    Greece v. Ukraine
    Russia v. Slovenia
     
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    I'd agree with that summary.

    I'm sure everyone has heard, but it hasn't been posted here, the other disappearing Ronaldo is out for Portugal.

    I pick Ireland, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ukraine and Russia to win.
     
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    I agree with your picks.

    Also, Lampard and Terry are out for England.
     
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    Ireland??? haha, And i just hope Ukraine loses, i am anti USSR countries :)
     
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    Good thing England's game tomorrow doesn't matter. The squad doesn't look too great without Gerrard, Lampard, and Terry. But then again, what squad wouldn't without three of the top four players.
     
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    Yeah, I can't see us getting a win.
     
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    Crazy Nigeria comeback, and Egypt is trying to produce a suprise too....
     
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    Looks like my picks might hold through

    France with a 1 - 0 win in Ireland, are sure to go through

    Bosnia lost 1 to 0 which isnt terrible, but they were very unlucky on a couple chances (two shots hit the bar consecutivly), so we will see

    Greece held Ukraine to a 0 to 0 draw, and if greece just gets 1 goal in Ukraine, they will go through for sure

    Russia gave up a stupid late away goal in the last couple mins that might hurt them, but with the firepower russia has, they should score at least once in slovenia
     

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