2010 WC Qualifiers Wrap Up

The Qualifiers for the 2010 World Cup are over, except for the playoff games which will determine the last batch of teams that will travel to South Africa. Here is a breakdown of the qualified teams, and the teams that will fight for a spot in the playoffs.




Europe


Qualified teams: Denmark, Germany, Netherlands, Slovakia, Switzerland, England, Italy, Serbia, Spain

Playoff teams: Portugal, Greece, Slovenia, Russia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Ukraine, France, Republic of Ireland

Many big teams had difficulty in Europe, Portugal and Sweden struggled, and eventually Portugal prevailed, leaving Sweden and Ibrahimovic out of the 2010 World Cup. France struggled to get in the playoffs as well, but great playing by Gignac and Benzema helped save them a spot in the playoffs. Italy made it through, but coach Marcello Lippi was met with heavy controversy by Italian journalists for leaving Cassano out of the squad. England cruised through qualifications with new coach Fabio Capello, and Spain and the Netherlands had little trouble qualifying too.


South America


Qualified teams: Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, Argentina

Playoff team: Uruguay

Only one change in the four qualified teams from the last World Cup, Chile takes the place of Ecuador in the top four. Chile is well known for their extremely attacking play, playing with the 3-3-1-3 formation Chile seems to be one of the teams that will add spice to this upcoming World Cup. Argentina makes it in at the last with controversial comments from Maradona. It seemed that Argentina might not qualify because of the constant change in the squad.


Concacaf


Qualified teams: USA, Mexico, Honduras

Playoff team: Costa Rica

The USA did well in these qualifiers, immediately solidifying its position, and their rival Mexico tried to overcome them, but were short one point. Honduras overcame Costa Rica thanks to a late goal by USA International Bornstein.


Africa

Qualified teams: Ghana, Ivory Coast

The African qualifiers haven't finished, and so far only two teams are qualified, Ghana and Ivory Coast. South Africa is already qualified because it is the host nation.


Asia

Qualified teams: Australia, Japan, Korea Republic, Korea DPR

Playoff teams: Bahrain, Saudi Arabia


The Asian qualifiers were quickly dominated by Australia and the Korea Republic, both having lost no games, they came first in their respective groups. A very tight competition between Korea DPR, Saudi Arabia, and Iran, all within one point of each other, Iran was unable to qualify.


Oceania


Playoff team: New Zealand

In Oceania, no direct qualification, the winner of the group of four teams goes in the playoff stages, New Zealand dominated the group with almost double points compared to New Caledonia who came second.

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Demam Piala Dunia 2010 sepertinya sudah mulai menggejala dan menjangkiti banyak orang. Tidak terkecuali Gus-e yang sudah sekian lama tidak ketahuan kabarnya itu. Sebagai penikmat olahraga semilyar umat itu, Gus-e tahu benar siapa saja yang layak dijagokan untuk menjadi juara di Piala Dunia 2010 nanti. ” Realistis saja, Spanyol, Brasil, dan Inggris tampil paling mengesankan di babak kualifikasi ” katanya

Nah, rupanya demam yang dialami Gus-e ini kebablasan. Dari yang tadinya hanya sebagai penonton setia televisi, kemudian berlanjut giat ikut Futsal disana sini, dan yang terakhir Gus-e mulai keranjingan game bola FIFA2010. Saking keranjingannya, hampir tiam malam dia rajin nelpon saya untuk diajaknya bermain bersama. Yang jadi masalah disini, Gus-e nelpon dan ngajak mainnya antara jam 2 pagi hingga shubuh, ini kan namanya gila.

Tapi saya tetap salut sama dia. Kendati untuk Piala dunia nanti dia menjagokan Spanyol dan Brasil sebagai juara, dengan Inggris sebagai kuda hitam, tapi untuk kesebelasan yang dipilihnya dalam game bola yang dimainkannya setiap malam, dia memilih tim Arab. Itu setidaknya yang saya tangkap sekilas dari susunan nama pemainnya yang berkonotasi arab semua. Pemain – pemainnya diambil dari dua kesebelasan terkenal, Fatahajjat dan Al Witr, dengan formasinya adalah 2-2-2-2-3.

————————————-At takatsur———————————

———————-Al Asry ——————–Al Lumazah——————

Al Fiil—————————————————————–Al Quraisy

———————-Al Ma’un——————Al Kautsar———————–

Al Kafirun——————————————————————An Nasr

————————Al Lahab———–Al ikhlas Falaq Annas————– –

Bahkan saat ketemu lawan tanding yang tangguh, Gus-e tidak segan – segan akan memainkan pemain – pemain andalannya seperti Yaasin, Al Mulk, Waqiah, dan An Nur.

Kualifikasi Piala Dunia FIFA 2010

Sebanyak 32 tim akan berkompetisi dalam Piala Dunia FIFA 2010, dengan satu tempat dialokasikan untuk tuan rumah, Afrika Selatan. Dalam proses kualifikasi Piala Dunia FIFA 2010, enam konfederasi FIFA mendapat pembagian jatah untuk 31 tempat tersisa. Distribusinya adalah sebagai berikut:^[1]

• Eropa (UEFA): 13 tempat
• Afrika (CAF): 5 tempat (+ Afrika Selatan yang terkualifikasi secara otomatis sebagai tuan rumah, total menjadi 6 tempat)
• Amerika Selatan (CONMEBOL): 4 atau 5 tempat
• Asia (AFC): 4 atau 5 tempat
• Amerika Utara dan Tengah, Karibia (CONCACAF): 3 atau 4 tempat
• Oseania (OFC): 0 atau 1 tempat

Jumlah alokasi tempat untuk UEFA dan CAF telah dijamin tidak akan berubah, sementara jumlah alokasi tempat untuk konfederasi lainnya tergantung pada pertandingan play-off antara tim-tim yang menempati tempat tertinggi turnamen kualifikasi namun tidak terjamin secara otomatis mendapat tempat di final:

• tempat ke-4 CONCACAF v tempat ke-5 CONMEBOL
• tempat ke-5 AFC v pemenang OFC

Di penghujung pendaftaran, pada 15 Maret 2007, 204 dari 208 anggota FIFA disertakan dalam kompetisi kualifikasi awal. Afrika Selatan ikut serta di antara tim-tim ini, karena prosedur kualifikasi di Afrika sekaligus juga sebagai kualifikasi Piala Afrika 2010.

Hanya tiga anggota AFC: Brunei, Laos dan Filipina gagal mendaftar untuk turnamen tersebut.

Bhutan diperbolehkan ikut pada menit-menit terakhir, dan diikutsertakan dalam pengundian awal untuk wilayah Asia, Papua Nugini didiskualifikasi dari kompetisi awal wilayah Oseania, sementara Brunei dan Filipina ditolak keikutsertaannya (gagal memenuhi tenggat waktu pendaftaran). Jumlah akhir tim yang mengikuti kompetisi awal ini memecahkan rekor jumlah 199 peserta dalam kualifikasi Piala Dunia FIFA 2002.^[2] Namun, lima tim mengundurkan diri tanpa memainkan sebuah pertandingan pun: Bhutan, Republik Afrika Tengah, Eritrea, Guam yang seharusnya menghadapi Indonesia, dan São Tomé dan Príncipe.

Tim-tim yang lolos

Zone Afrika (CAF)

Kualifikasi Zone Afrika adalah sekaligus merupakan kualifikasi untuk Kejuaraan Piala Afrika. Ada tiga ronde, tim pemenang dari masing-masing lima grup kompetisi penuh akan masuk dalam putaran final Piala Dunia.

1. Afrika Selatan (sebagai tuan rumah)
2. Ghana
3. Pantai Gading/Cote d'Ivoire
4. Nigeria
5. Kamerun
6. Aljazair (mengalahkan Mesir 1-0 dalam play-off di Khartoum)

Zone Amerika Selatan (CONMEBOL)

Kualifikasi berbentuk kompetisi penuh bagi semua tim peserta. Urutan ke-1—4 langusng masuk putaran final. Urutan ke-5 menghadapi urutan ke-4 zone CONCACAF dalam pertanidngan play-off.

1. Brasil
2. Paraguay
3. Cile
4. Argentina
5. Uruguay (mengalahkan Costa Rica dalam play-off)

Zone Amerika Utara, Tengah, Karibia (CONCACAF)

Kualifikasi dalam empat ronde (putaran). Putaran terakhir berupa kompetisi penuh dari enam tim terbaik. Tiga teratas langsung masuk kualifikasi, urutan keempat ditentukan keikutsertaannya dalam play off melawan urutan ke-5 Zone Amerika Selatan.

1. Amerika Serikat
2. Meksiko
3. Honduras

Zone Asia (AFC)

1. Australia
2. Jepang
3. Korea Selatan
4. Korea Utara

Zone Eropa (UEFA)

Kualifikasi zone ini membagi tim-tim peserta menjadi sembilan grup, juara grup langsung masuk putaran final di Afrika Selatan. Empat tim akan ditentukan melalui play off di antara delapan tim terbaik dari posisi kedua.

1. Italia
2. Jerman
3. Denmark
4. Serbia
5. Spanyol
6. Inggris
7. Belanda
8. Swiss
9. Slovakia
10. Slovenia (mengalahkan Rusia dalam play off, seri agregat tetapi membuat gol di tandang)
11. Portugal (mengalahkan Bosnia-Herzegovina dalam play off, menang agregat)
12. Yunani (mengalahkan Ukraina dalam play off, menang agregat)
13. Prancis (mengalahkan Irlandia dalam play off, menang agregat)

Zone Oceania

1. Selandia Baru (mengalahkan Bahrain dalam play off, menang agregat)

Be careful when buying tickets for the 2010 World Cup

A report in The Times today has revealed that up to 100 websites may be selling tickets for the 2010 World Cup that don't exist, duping thousands of supporters thinking they tickets for South Africa when they haven't.

Much like the lottery scam will take several forms but each of them are still a scam, there are going to be lots of websites claiming to sell tickets for the event next year but there is actually only one website, FIFA.com, that will be selling tickets and only a few more companies where you can buy authorised packages.

"Our work with New Scotland Yard is yet another example that we are taking serious steps to stop unauthorised entities from selling tickets to the 2010 FIFA World Cup,” Jérôme Valcke, the FIFA general secretary, told The Times last night.

“We applaud the work of New Scotland Yard in its efforts to ensure that our common goal is to target and shut down illegitimate entities or unauthorised tickets. We simply cannot accept that true fans are being cheated in this way.”

Bottom line, don't buy tickets online unless through the FIFA website, it is the only place you can buy tickets and now is a very good time as the ticketing process is nearing the end of the second phase.

The second sales phase started on May 4th and runs until November 16th and tickets applications are processed, subject to availability, on a first come first served basis - in the order of receipt. If you really want a ticket, then this is your best option.

FIFA have also only got one rights holder of the Official Hospitality Programme for the World Cup and they are called MATCH. These tickets are aimed at corporate customers or if you are absolutely minted and want the best for your time in South Africa. If you are interested in this type of ticket click here.

World Cup 2010 qualified teams: Eight more confirmed

Eight more countries are now confirmed to attend the World Cup finals in South Africa next year after two more nights of World Cup qualifying football all over the world.

The new teams to confirm their attendance in South Africa are: USA, Mexico, Chile, Italy, Serbia, Denmark, Germany and Ivory Coast. This brings the total number of confirmed countries to nineteen and there will be more added to this list later this week.

Mexico and the USA secured qualification thanks to wins over El Salvador and Honduras respectively, in the penultimate round of North American qualifying and they are the first two teams to qualify from that group. Ivory Coast are the third African team after hosts South Africa and Ghana qualified but the bulk on new teams confirmed for the event next year came through the European group.

Confirmed Teams for 2010 World Cup

Hosts

• South Africa

African Qualifying Group

• Ghana
• Ivory Coast

Asian Qualifying Group

• Japan
• Australia
• South Korea
• North Korea

European Qualifying Group

• England
• Netherlands
• Spain
• Serbia
• Italy
• Denmark
• Germany

South American Qualifying Group

• Brazil
• Paraguay
• Chile

North and Central America Qualifying Group

• United States
• Mexico

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Date	Venue		Result
11 June	Johannesburg	South Africa	-	Mexico
11 June	Cape Town	Uruguay	-	France
16 June	Pretoria	South Africa	-	Uruguay
17 June	Polokwane	France	-	Mexico
22 June	Rustenburg	Mexico	-	Uruguay
22 June	Bloemfontein	France	-	South Africa

Date	Venue		Result
12 June	Johannesburg	Argentina	-	Nigeria
12 June	Port Elizabeth	Korea Republic	-	Greece
17 June	Bloemfontein	Greece	-	Nigeria
17 June	Johannesburg	Argentina	-	Korea Republic
22 June	Durban	Nigera	-	Korea republic
22 June	Polokwane	Greece	-	Argentina

Date	Venue		Result
12 June	Rustenburg	England	-	United States
13 June	Polokwane	Algeria	-	Slovenia
18 June	Johannesburg	Slovenia	-	USA
18 June	Cape Town	England	-	Algeria
23 June	Port Elizabeth	Slovenia	-	England
23 June	Pretoria	USA	-	Algeria

Date	Venue		Result
13 June	Johannesburg	Germany	-	Australia
13 June	Pretoria	Serbia	-	Ghana
18 June	Port Elizabeth	Germany	-	Serbia
19 June	Rustenburg	Ghana	-	Australia
23 June	Johannesburg	Ghana	-	Germany
23 June	Nelspruit	Australia	-	Serbia

Date	Venue		Result
14 June	Johannesburg	Netherlands	-	Denmark
14 June	Bloemfontein	Japan	-	Cameroon
19 June	Durban	Netherlands	-	Japan
19 June	Pretoria	Cameroon	-	Denmark
24 June	Rustenburg	Denmark	-	Japan
24 June	Cape Town	Cameroon	-	Netherlands

Date	Venue		Result
14 June	Cape Town	Italy	-	Paraguay
15 June	Rustenburg	New Zealand	-	Slovakia
20 June	Bloemfontein	Slovakia	-	Paraguay
20 June	Nelspruit	Italy	-	New Zealand
24 June	Johannesburg	Slovakia	-	Italy
24 June	Polokwane	Paraguay	-	New Zealand

Date	Venue		Result
15 June	Port Elizabeth	Ivory Coast	-	Portugal
15 June	Johannesburg	Brazil	-	Korea DPR
20 June	Johannesburg	Brazil	-	Ivory Coast
21 June	Cape Town	Portugal	-	Korea DPR
25 June	Durban	Portugal	-	Brazil
25 June	Nelspruit	Korea DPR	-	Ivory Coast

Date	Venue		Result
16 June	Nelspruit	Honduras	-	Chile
16 June	Durban	Spain	-	Switzerland
21 June	Port Elizabeth	Chile	-	Switzerland
21 June	Johannesburg	Spain	-	Honduras
25 June	Pretoria	Chile	-	Spain
25 June	Bloemfontein	Switzerland	-	Honduras

2010 World Cup South Africa Qualifier And Qualifying

Here is the latest results for the 2010 Fifa World Cup South Africa qualifier. Am surprised that North Korea made it, after so many years of absence, I bet they will try to make a huge impression due to their previous record.

Not a single Arab countries managed to make it, except for Bahrain, which will be decided this coming week when they play with New Zealand. Australia is in for the second time, they are not much of a soccer country, doubt they are going to make a splash.

Soccer coaches welcome 2010 draw schedule

Cape Town – Soccer coaches have welcomed the 2010 Final Draw schedule, promising that each team will perform their best during the 2010 FIFA World Cup.

Nigerian Coach Shuaibu Amodu said he was not intimidated by being drawn with South American giants Argentina.

“Each and every team in the World Cup is the same so it unnecessary to focus on one team,” he said, adding that the players should take each and every game seriously.

New Zealand Coach Ricki Herbert said Group F (Italy vs New Zealand and Paraguay vs Slovenia) is going to be a tough group.

“Its going to be a tough group particularly Paraguay and Italy which have shown great performances in the qualifiers. However, this is going to inspire us.”

He said although Italy will be one of the toughest opponents, they will take each and every game according to their plan.

Asked whether New Zealand will reach the second stage of the tournament, the coach said: “We don’t have to think about that because that might put us under pressure, our aim is to focus on each and every game.”

French Coach Raymond Domenech said he was very proud to be playing South Africa as they are the host country and he is sure that it is going to be difficult because Bafana Bafana will have most of the fans supporting them at the stadium.

France and South Africa have been placed in Group A. South Africa will play against Mexico and Uruguay will play against France.

Mexican Coach Jevier Aguire said it would be an honour to play South Africa as the eyes of the world would be on them as the host country which would encourage them to perform better on their home ground.

“There will be too much pressure but it’s also an honour.” - BuaNews