Por Sole Leyva
En sólo cinco años la temperatura máxima de Madrid en noviembre ha subido de 12 a 21 grados. Una brutalidad. Al final parece que Al Gore, fuegos de artificio aparte, será de verdad el nuevo mesías verde. El calentamiento global se está cargando las estaciones como tales, ventilará de un plumazo los icebergs de los polos en este siglo y va camino de llevarse por delante en menos de 40 años uno de los países más pequeños del mundo, Tuvalu, exhuberante archipiélago coralino situado en el Océano Pacífico, a medio camino entre Australia y Hawai, cuya selección nacional tiene un último deseo: entrar en la FIFA. Click to continue reading...

Two of his former projects, Australia and South Korea, that he nurtured to World Cup glory are in. Russia, his current and most talented team which in actuality should have the easiest of playoff passages, are out.

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With Uruguay seeing off Costa Rica, the field for World Cup 2010 has been completed.Africa - Algeria, Cameroon, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, South AfricaAsia - Australia, Japan, North Korea, South KoreaEurope - Denmark, England, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, SwitzerlandNorth America - Honduras, Mexico, United StatesOceania - New Click to continue reading...

The World Cup winners in 1930 and 1950 became the last team to qualify for South Africa 2010 thanks to a draw with Costa Rica at the Centenario in Montevideo. Substitute Sebastian Abreu - who plays for Aris Salonika in Greece -� put the hosts ahead 70 minutes but Costa Rica equalised when Deportivo Saprissa's Walter Centeno scored four minutes later.

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Estos son los 32 países clasificados a la XIX Copa Mundial de la FIFA, Sudáfrica 2010:
Por la UEFA: Alemania, Dinamarca, Eslovaquia, Eslovenia, España, Francia, Grecia, Holanda, Inglaterra, Italia, Portugal, Serbia y Suiza.
Por la Conmebol: Argentina, Brasil, Chile, Paraguay y Uruguay. Click to continue reading...

Good piece by Henry Winter in todays Telegraph, about how dangerous a First Round Draw England could get despite the fact that we will almost certainly be seeded (won't be officially announced untill all the teams are through and FIFA has worked out the best way to get the big teams through the fairest way for everyone to play against each other.

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When football pitches explode Australia's Asian Cup qualifier against Oman was pretty bad-tempered throughout, so when a firecracker went off just metres away from players from both sides it didn't really help to cool the situation. Spotted on World Cup Blog

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Easily the greatest penalty shootout celebration in history. (0.20) Fabio Capello is not such a hit in Spain. (La Liga Loca) The dam is breaking in Manchester. (EPL Talk) Raymond Domenech: not so smart. (The Spoiler) Amaral writes a nice, though curious, parting letter. (SoccerLens) Robin van Persie to get mystery placenta juice treatments. Click to continue reading...

Well Mark Schwarzer made our luck, even saving the 14th minute penalty to be beaten on the rebound. Bad luck to Rhys Williams being forced into a foul to give the penalty. But otherwise Oman botched 4 or so goals - just played too fast for their skill level. Criag Moore was lucky not to have given away a second half hand ball penalty. Click to continue reading...

Jogaram no MI Dinh Stadium, na cidade de Hanoi, pelas eliminatórias da Copa da Ásia, as seleções do Vietnã (134º no ranking da FIFA) e a seleção da Síria (95º no ranking da FIFA), para um público de 30.000 pessoas.
Esse foi o primeiro jogo, entre as 2 seleções. Click to continue reading...

Going against what this writer wanted, New Zealand became the 24th nation with a ticket for South Africa by beating Bahrain at home. The only goal of the match was scored by Rory Fallon in the final moments of the first-half. The first-leg of this playoff ended 0-0, which gave Bahrain the chance of qualifying with a draw different from the nil one.

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There are a number of International Friendlies on Saturday, November 14, 2009 as most nations are done with 2010 World Cup Qualification. Some of the friendlies including Brazil v England, Slovakia v USA, Spain v Argentina, and Italy v Netherlands. All of these matches and more will be covered live at our other site, Free Live Sports TV, at the links below.

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Jorge Fossati no regresaba al Estadio Centenario desde el repechaje, cuando dirigía a la selección de Uruguay frente a Australia, que se perdió en penales en Sidney. Enfrentaba a otro ex seleccionador Uruguayo y a quién había sustituido en dicho cargo, al controversial y trasgresor � Juan Ramón Carrasco.

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So very late last night Australian time, unfortunately the Aussie girls had their first loss of the AFC under-16 tournament when DPR Korea came back to clinch a 4-3 win in the 85th minute. Australia had scored first, in just the 8th minute through Brittany Whitfield and but then Korea equalised in the 18th minute. Click to continue reading...

Australia v Hong Kong 3-1
Japan v Indonesia 7-0
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The World Cups have, especially in the start, been the complete dominance of South America and Europe. Therefore, throughout the 1950's and 1960's, the "rest of the world", that is, Asia, Africa and Australia had to play between them for one meager qualifying spot.For the 1966 World Cup in England, this "rest-of-the-world" spot went to the small and closed Communist dictatorship of North Corea. Click to continue reading...

Last week, we reported on exhibit A in how to alienate fans in Australia by A-League expansion team Gold Coast United's billionaire owner Clive Palmer. The club closed three sides of their stadium, Skilled Park, and capped capacity to just 5,000, forcing supporters out of their usual position in the stadium.

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Clive Palmer, owner of Gold Coast United

Gold Coast United, an expansion team in Australia's premier A-League, have already generated negative headlines it takes some teams decades to generate: "A-League may hit rock bottom thanks to the Coast," says Adrian Musolino in today's Roar, which also features another piece titled "Gold Coast "United" – How to lose fans and alienate people".

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Is the region ready to watch football from another country in the region?
That was a question I posed at the weekend and I sensed a slight sea change.
Since then I see one Singapore cable TV provider is asking customers whether or not viewers would like to see ISL games.
And the ISL itself is also engaged in some kind of research as to whether or not a market exists out there for their product. Click to continue reading...

Our new series on Pitch Invasion moves all the way from Australia to Northern Ireland, as we look at the growing ultras culture in the IFA Premiership.

Glentoran are the current champions of the league, and their supporters' group Legion 1882 (which references the year the club was founded) was formed just two years ago.

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The plight of Toronto FC and the frustration of its fans are popular fodder around the North American soccer community these days. The moaning angst of Reds supporters can be heard down here in the...

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A new series on Pitch Invasion debuts, though it's actually a bit of a return to our roots as half the reason I started this site back in the day was to show tifo displays from around the world.

To kick things off, we look at Australia with a video documenting the making and display of a variety of banners by supporters of Sydney FC in the A-League.

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23 teams have now qualified for the World Cup. Only nine places are left for sport's biggest show. Australia will be feeling some empathy for Costa Rica as they face a playoff against Uruguay for a spot. Uruguay finished fifth in South American qualifying while Costa Rica finished fourth ... Click to continue reading...

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Jessica Bratich es una Diosa que nacio en Australia pero cuidadito con ella... tiene 17 años practicando karate!

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Jessica Bratich es una Diosa que nacio en Australia pero cuidadito con ella... tiene 17 años practicando karate!

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So the girls took on Thailand in the final of the ASEAN under-16 girls final in Myanmar, and though it's not up on the FFA website yet, you can read all about it here on the ASEAN website.
Australia ended up winning 8-0, but the scoreline doesn't reflect that it was pretty close. Up until the 67th minute, it was 2-0, but Sam Kerr then scored and it seemingly opened up the floodgates. Click to continue reading...

Great news from Australia after the three categories of Moto GPhave been run with Spanish 125cc rider JULIAN SIMON proclaiminghimself WORLD CHAMPION for 2009.In the other categories not so much good news with Bautista fallingbehind in the 250cc title race & Jorge Lorenzo falling off his bikesaying goodbye to all chances for the GP title. Click to continue reading...

Al dia de hoy ya se tiene programado el sorteo que definirán los grupos para el mundial de futbol de Sudáfrica 2010 y este será el 4 de Diciembre, alli se definirán los 8 grupos con 4 miembros cada uno. Posteriormente se dará a conocer el Calendario que oportunamente aqui estaremos publicando.
Hasta el momento hay 23 países que tendrán una bola asegurada en el sorteo de los grupos del mundial. Click to continue reading...

Foreign fans rejoice! The 2009 leg of the Bucks for Becks World Tour™ is on. Having already run through Australia, Asia and Canada in off-seasons past, the Galaxy are spending this Thanksgiving in Europe...kind of like that rich kid you went to school with who always rocked Lacoste and had cool parents who would let him have wine at dinner. Click to continue reading...

Liverpool remain confident Steven Gerrard will be fit for their trip to Sunderland this weekend, despite fears he may have sustained a slight tear in his adductor muscle.
Gerrard, who was substituted at half time in England's defeat in Ukraine on Saturday, returned to Merseyside for a precautionary scan after managing only 10 minutes of training with Fabio Capello's squad on Tuesday. Click to continue reading...

A goal from Everton man Tim Cahill edged Australia past their minnow opposition.

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Asian Cup Qualifying 2011 Group B :- 14th October 2009 Final score :- Australia 1-0 Oman ( Tim Cahill 74′ goal) Everton's Tim Cahill scored in the 74th minute to allow Australia to beat Claude Le Roy's Oman in Melbourne. Cahill had also scored a late equaliser against Oman when the two sides met in 2007, and [. Click to continue reading...

Dutch international Dirk Kuyt has stressed how he is enjoying life on Merseyside with Liverpool despite the club's poor start to the season.
The striker, who played for his homeland in a friendly against the Socceroos in Australia this week, is expected to feature against Sunderland despite his long round-trip and hopes that the Reds can now focus on getting their title challenge back on track. Click to continue reading...

In three games against Australia, Oranje hasn't been able to win. Last Saturday, Oranje played the Socceroos away. In Australia. A unique happening, since most big nations balk at the idea of traveling 42 hours to play a 90 minute friendly. Bert van Marwijk - and the powers that be at Click to continue reading...