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6 more qualify: 2010 World Cup in South Africa is complete.
No more. Done. Finito. Acabou. The fight for the 32 golden spots to play the most exciting football (and sports) tournament on the planet has ended. Some big ones almost did not manage. And some return after 24 years.
Today was the day for the last 6 squads to qualify. The brave (or lucky?) one were: [...]
Cameroon and Nigeria going to South Africa.
Cameroon and Nigeria have guaranteed a spot in the 2010 World Cup in South Africa today. Cameroon beat Morroco 2-0 (second goal by Eto’o) and Nigeria beat Kenya 3 – 2.
So far 26 countries are going to South Africa next June: Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Chile, Mexico, USA, Honduras, Netherlands, Spain, England, Germany, Denmark, Serbia, Italy, [...]
End of qualifiers story: Brazil 0 – 0 Venezuela
It wasn’t the prettiest match in football history, nor was it supposed to be. Brazil had already qualified and Venezuela had almost no chances of qualifying (unless they beat Brazil 6-0 and Argentina beat Uruguay 9-0!), so it was what it was. Dunga did some experimenting and some things are definitely clear: Robinho should never [...]
See who has already booked a ticket to the World Cup in South Africa 2010.
The day was busy. Many important matches going on at the same time and some countries can already rest assured to be visiting South Africa next June. The happy faces of the day? Paraguay, Spain and England.
Paraguay played in style and beat Argentina to give the hermanos more headache. La Albiceleste is now 5th in [...]
Brazil 3 – 0 Peru.
Yesterday Brazil took on Peru, in Porto Alegre, for the World Cup Qualifiers. The 3-0 victory gave Brazil (and coach Dunga) some space to breathe, especially since Chile tied and Argentina took a beat from Bolivia. Brazil now stands second on the Qualifiers, behind leaders Paraguay.
The match was as expected: easy. Peru is the [...]
Historic Loss for Argentina
Today Argentina lost a historic match to Bolivia. A 6-1 loss which had not happened since 1958’s World Cup, against (then) Czechoslovakia. Of course there is the high altitude, but no excuses. Especially because Dieguito Maradona was one of the big defenders of matches being played in high altitude (FIFA wanted to prohibit – but [...]
Julio Cesar saves Brazil.
Yesterday Brazil played Ecuador in Quito, for the South American World Cup Qualifiers. The match ended 1 – 1 but if one is to consider who deserved to win (by many goals), it would be Ecuador. Brazil got outshot by 21 and if it weren’t for glorious Julio César, the match would have been 4-0, [...]
A World Cup Qualifiers Week
This is one of those great weekends where you can watch great football matches all weekend long. Tomorrow, there are some great matches to look for: Spain vs. Turkey at 5pm, US Eastern Time, on Gol TV. Argentina vs. Venezuela at 6:10pm, only on PPV (time to hope for an Argentinian loss). Netherlands vs. Scotland [...]
Time to go home Dunga.
It was too good to be true. Truth be told (for the 100th time): Dunga is not a good boss, not even close to it. Brazil tied 0-0 today with Colombia, at home, in Maracanã. It is the 3rd consecutive home match that ends up in frustration for us, Brazilians. When things are fine, like [...]
WC Qualifiers Europe – Katsoyranis and Gourcuff scored amazing goals.
I guess Raymond Domenech is keeping his job a little longer. France tied 2×2 with Romania thanks to Ribery and the young Gourcuff. Greece got the job well done with a glorious goal from Katsoyranis (Roberto Carlos style). Here are the goals:
Katsoyranis
Gourcuff
