Six nations remain. The top three advance to the 2010 World Cup. The fourth-place team moves on to
compete in a two-legged intercontinental playoff against South America's fifth-place side. Hold
onto your hats, it's CONCACAF Hexagonal 2009. Check out previews of each country at The
Touchline.
- El Salvador Preview
- Honduras Preview
Put those thoughts of the 2010 World Cup in the USA, England or Germany out of your mind ...
"Plan B is dead," Danny Jordaan, head of the World Cup local organizing committee told
reporters in Johannesburg in a year-end review of preparations for the tournament.
Jordaan was referring to speculation earlier this year that FIFA, soccer's world governing body
could yank the World Cup from South Africa if the country was deemed ill-prepared to become the
first African host of the tournament.
