FIFA World Cup 2010

World Cup
The greatest sporting event in the world is no more than a year. This, of course, World Cup, the soccer event, which every four years.

South Africa should be reviewed in 2010 to host the Davis Cup, in different cities in southern Africa, including Johannesburg, Port Elizabeth, Cape Town, Pretoria, Durban and Bloemfontein. The tournament starts in June 11, 2010 and completed in exactly a month July 11. Johannesburg, the largest city, the game of football at the city stadium, which is currently being refurbished, new and more in time for the World Cup.

While the big event still 18 months, with a long and qualification process has already begun. South Africa is automatically entered the field of 32 teams, while the other 31 pages are still in the game. Qualifying matches began in August 2007 and ends in November 2009. The ceremony, in the space over the last 32 teams will be in December 2009.

Currently, various qualifying tournaments in the world. World Cup candidates compete for 13 points between the European countries, five African teams (excluding South Africa), four or five from South America, three or four times in North America, Central America and the Caribbean, but not slick, or in Oceania.

In Asia, Australia and South Korea at the top of the qualification in the relevant groups. In Europe, Greece, Hungary, Slovakia, Germany, Spain, England, Serbia, Italy and the Netherlands, in groups. Paraguay, Argentina, Brazil and Chile, are in good condition, in South America. Qualifying matches in Africa and North and Central America and the Caribbean have not yet begun.

After he finds and qualifying stage for the development of a ceremony in December 2009 in Cape Town on 32 World Championship participants will be divided into eight groups of four teams. Each team plays each team in the group in their group, and the two best teams (16 total) in the knockout stage, which in the period from June 26, 2009 and June 29. Round Robin group play, will take place from 11 June 25 June.

In the first round in the knockout stage, winners of eight groups of eight teams play a runner-UPS. From there, the rest of the tournament, single elimination. In the losers in the semifinals, but not to a place in the third place on July 10 in Port Elizabeth.

Italy is the champion, which defeated France 5-3 in penalty shootout in the 2006 title. Brazil, winner of the previous World Cup in 1994 and 2002, owns a majority of the five heads of the World Cup. Italy and Germany four, the host country in 2006, has three. Italy currently ranks third in the FIFA rankings, while Brazil the fifth largest in Germany, and the second. Spain is the highest rank of the team, while the other team in the Netherlands Top 5 in five countries, have to be serious candidates in South Africa.
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