FIFA World Cup 2010
The biggest sporting event in the world is a little more than a year. That, of course, is the FIFA World Cup 2010, the prestigious football event which takes place once every four years.
South Africa will host the 2010 World Cup on, which will be distributed in various South African cities including Johannesburg, Port Elizabeth, Cape Town, Pretoria, Durban and Bloemfontein. The tournament will start on 11 June 2010 and concluded exactly one month later on July 11th. Johannesburg, the country’s largest city will host the championship match at Soccer City Stadium, which is currently undergoing renovations, which are to be new and improved during the World Cup.
Although the great event is still 18 months, a long and exhaustive process of qualification has already begun. South Africa qualifies automatically to the field of 32 teams, but 31 other spots are yet to grabs. Qualifying matches began in August 2007 and completed in November 2009. The draw ceremony of the 32 finalists in the groups will be held in December 2009.
At present, various qualifying tournaments are taking place around the world.. World Cup hopefuls are vying for 13 spots among the nations of Europe, five spots for African teams (excluding South Africa), four or five to South America, three or four for North America, Central America and the Caribbean, or the spots or not, and one for Oceania.
In Asia, Australia and the Republic of Korea are now leading the way in their qualification groups. In Europe, Denmark, Greece, Slovakia, Germany, Spain, England, Serbia, Italy and the Netherlands are at the top of the group. Paraguay, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and now is looking good in South America. Qualifying matches in Africa and North / Central America and Caribbean division has not yet begin.
When you came to the conclusion eligible and sets the stage for the December 2009 draw ceremony in Cape Town, 32 participants in the World Cup will be placed into eight groups of four teams. Each team in the group plays every other team in its group and the top two teams (16 totals) advance to the knockout phase, which will be held between 26 June 2009 and 29 June.
Round-robin group play will be held from June 11 to 25 June.
In the first knockout round stage in the eight group winners plays a group of eight runner-ups. From there, in the rest of the tournament is single elimination. Losers to semi-finals, but will be subject to the square in the third place match held in July 10 in Port Elizabeth.
Italy is the defending champion, having defeated France 5-3 in penalty kicks in the 2006 title match. Brazil, which recently won World Cups in 1994 and 2002, owns a majority in five World Cup titles. Italy four and Germany, in 2006, the host nation, has three. Italy are currently third in the FIFA rankings, and Brazil is the fifth and Germany are the second. Spain is the top-ranked team, while the Netherlands is the other teams in the Top 5 All five countries should be serious contenders in the Republic of South Africa.
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