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2010 World Cup Teams

World Cup Teams

The 2010 World cup is up on the foray and its one of the most watched sports in the world

Russia may not have qualified for the cup, but they are the highest ranked team in the qualifier playoff.

As for the Argentinean camp, former mythical player who once wore the number ten football shirt, and current Argentina team coach, Diego Maradona, faced feedback from both the fans and the media.
They feared that Argentina would fail to qualify World Cup under Maradona, but luck was on Argentina's side as Mario Bolatti scored a goal against Uruguay. So, with a 1-0 win, coach Maradona got his Argentina team , though in the 4th and last position with twenty-eight points. It appears Maradona showed had some acrimony to show towards the media after the game...


Argentina now join Brazil, Chile and Paraguay as one of the 4 groups from the South American Group to have secured a berth to S. A. . According to the boss of the Organizing Board , Dr Danny Jordaan, "The World Cup wouldn't be the same without the presence of Diego Maradona and the Argentineans.

With their qualification, fans at next year's competition will also be in a position to watch one of the planet's most proficient players in Lionel Messi... Argentina has turned into a fixture in the world Cup and as one of the most important groups in the history of the competition, enjoys obsessed support at home and round the world." As of now, the qualifying groups to the 2010 World Cup are:
Africa: SA ( as host ), Ghana, Ivory Coast East
Asia: Japan, Australia, South Korea, North Korea
Europe : Britain , Spain, Germany, Netherlands, Denmark, Serbia, Italy, Switzerland, Slovakia Northern America : USA, Mexico, Honduras South America : Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, Argentina In the Conacaf hexagonal, the US led with twenty points, followed by Mexico at 19 points, and both Honduras and Costa Rica with sixteen points, though Costa Rica has less goals than Honduras. In the Western european Group, Slovakia qualified for the 1st time after defeating Poland by 1-0.


\And Switzerland qualified after drawing against Israel, making it the country's ninth trip to the world cup. Now, Portugal, Greece, Slovenia, France, Russia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Ukraine and Republic of Eire will meet one another at the play offs. The leftover 9 teams who eventually qualify for the 2010 World Cup well be known in Nov , while the final draw is anticipated to occur on the fourth of December 2009. "As more groups qualify for the World Cup next year the focus of the planet and its media is starting to shift toward the actuality of the competition, the groups who will be a part of the contest, the stars in those groups who will grace our fields and the performances we expect from them," said Dr Danny Jordaan. With the South African system and local population pulling out all stops to host this mega football contest and do their country proud, block your dates, keep your fave team's football uniforms prepared to wear for a uniquely African contest from June till the end of July 2010. Or, better still, If you wish to Catch the action live book World cup tickets right now itself!