EGIPTO 2009 RAMONTELLO13
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Este mundial donde estrellas de todas partes del orbe empiezan a deslumbrar con su brillo juvenil en las canchas, en esta ocasión México no acudió, pero aun así el torneo es mucho muy interesante.

Watch World Cup qualifiers live here.

International press conferences at the best of times tend to be mundane, by the numbers affairs filled with platitudes by the key figures within the national side. Not much changes when it comes to conferences prior to World Cup qualifiers, or even the finals itself, but within the words always lies a common train of thought: There are few, if any greater honours in football than representing your country at the World Cup.

Australia would be concerned after their 3-1 loss to South Korea. The Socceroos were wobbly, unsure and overly cautious and made a mockery of their FIFA ranking of 14. Pim Verbeek has much to think about between now and next year's World Cup in South Africa. On the one ...

Australia's remarkable run of results has come crashing to a halt at the Seoul World Cup Stadium as Korea downed the Socceroos 3-1 tonight in an International Friendly. With both teams safely through to the World Cup Finals as top of their Asian qualifying groups, this was a chance for both managers to test some new players, and Aussie coach Pim Verbeek rang in the changes in what was a homecoming for him, as he coached South Korea before taking the Australian job.

You got the impression that the South Korean players enjoyed scoring against their goalkeeper in training a little too much. The novelty of having coach Huh Jung-moo in between the sticks outweighed the verbal volleys that came the way of the ten men on the outfield.
Huh was gloved up because the national team was preparing for a friendly with Australia that kicked-off three days later with no goalkeepers.

Australia submitted their first away defeat in over a year with a 3-1 loss to South Korea at the Seoul World Cup Stadium on Saturday night. The two teams that topped their respective pools in the Asian leg of next year's World Cup were such a contrast to each other; Korea on the back of an unbeaten run .

This Sunday, Ghana became the first African nation to get a ticket for South Africa. The qualification came after a 2-0 victory over Sudan with goals by Sulley Muntari and Michael Essien. The other nations already in the cup are Brazil, Holland, Australia, South Korea, North Korea, Japan and the hosts South Africa.

The World Cup of 2010 is already taking shape, with seven of the 32 teams on offer having already staked a claim towards a tournament berth.
In trouble...
The teams who have already qualified:
South Africa (CAF - as hosts)
Japan (AFC)
Australia (AFC)
South Korea (AFC)
Netherlands (UEFA)
North Korea (AFC)
Brazil (CONMEBOL)
Ghana (CAF)
So, that leaves space for 24 more countries.

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Recent Melbourne Victory supporters' protest

Big Story
It's an absurdly hyperbolic headline from the Roar, but their story of surveillance of fans is a little concerning, especially in the context of the long failure of the Australian football authorities to understand that heavy-handed restrictions and knuckle-headed security is not the way to grow the sport in a country with far more established sporting cultures.

While most teams were busy with 2010 World Cup Qualification on Saturday, there were a few friendlies as well. Most noticably were South Korea v Australia and Netherlands v Japan. Here's a recap of the both matches along with video highlights.

South Korea beats Australia 3-1 Video Highlights

South Korea cruised past Australia behind goals from Seol Ki-hyeon, Park Chu-young, and Lee Jang-soo were the difference.

How does one go about measuring greatness in football? I mean real, obvious, blatant greatness; that rarest of qualities. Today "greatness" is such a woolly, over-used term that sometimes we lose its meaning and start labeling all sorts of mundane, workaday things as "great". The evolution of language has distilled its meaning, reduced its potency, but we still know greatness when we see it.

With Benny Dollo now installed as Technical Director with Persija and his contract with the Indonesian FA set to expire at the end of January 2010 thoughts turn to who will succeed him. And there will be a succession even though no one has discussed it openly yet.
The favourite is Rahmad Darmawan, the hugely successful Sriwijaya coach.

Round 5 Review

Melbourne Victory vs Newcastle Jets 1-1
Etihad Stadium 15,168

Despite being able to sustain a high crowd, Melbourne weren't able to replicate that luck on the pitch, following another disappointing result, the defending champions sit 7th on the A-League ladder.

Lots of good stuff:

• Messi to sign a mega-deal with Barca.
  
• United give new deal to Park Ji-Sung.
  
• Ribery hints to new Bayern deal.
  
• Juve may keep Trezeguet too.
  
• Viduka back to Australia?
  
• Milan to axe Ronaldinho?
  
• Adriano back to Europe?

PERTH Glory have a pretty quick turnaround of five days until Friday's match against Newcastle Jets.
But before we get into it, FP just wants to rant about something (don't worry he'll make his point quickly).
Football in this country is not suffering because of the big things. We have pretty decent players, a pretty good supporter base (though they are a bit afraid of the rain) and the competition, especially this year, is extremely tight.

FIFA has today released its monthly World Teams Rankings withBrazil on top & SPAIN 2ºnd closing the gap with the former. Some ofthe other teams move around, but good to see Australia in the thepicture.Here is the list of Top 14 national teams:FIFA CLASSIFICATION: 2nd of SEPTEMBER 2009:1 (1). Brazil 1.

"No le tengo miedo a nadie" ccarpaneto@ole.com.ar

Arrancó, Diego, como si hubiese preparado su discurso para pelear. Para pelear, primero, contra los micrófonos. Se iría tranquilizando luego, ya fuera de la sala de conferencia. Pero de entrada nomás, se mostró desafiante, buscando contraatacar el segundo cachetazo en cinco días.

Still not much good stuff:

• Figo to Australia?
  
• New Marseilles deal for French 'keeper.
  
• Spanish team forced to transfer player.
  
• An academy kid is signed by FC Dallas.
  
• Future decision (MLS?) for a U.S. U-20 player.
  
• Transfer ban placed on Crystal Palace.

This has nothing to do with Ramos The Raver but the promotional video for Sony's Twilight Football tournament (again nothing to do with that horrid film) propped up and reminded us yet again of the Madrid defender. Yes, ya'll know he can do the flamenco for real.

The Homeless World Cup is a life changing international football tournament. From Argentina to Australia, South Africa to Portugal, Cameroon to Brazil, Germany to England homeless people take a once in a lifetime opportunity to represent their country and change their lives forever. 77% of players go on to find a home, come off drugs and alcohol, get into education, jobs, training, repair

Bert is secretly thinking: "I told them I want the cup, but I won't tell them I have it here already... Dudes, Oranje will come to Australia and your humble servant will attend the match (with Carlos and I hope with some more fans from the region). I'm currently trying to get the

En esta jornada dominical entre los Grupos E y F hubo buenos partidos, muchos goles, y emociones.

Brasil 5-0 Costa Rica

Quizá el segundo partido más disparejo de lo que va del torneo (después del España-Tahití), donde los brasileños golearon al cuadro tico sin despeinarse.

After this weekend's interesting qualifiers for the World Cup i South Africa, we had more countries qualify, so that we now know eight of the nations that will surely be in South Africa next year.The Asian countries qualified in June , and the only pending issue is the match between Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, about who will get a play-off match against New Zealand:AustraliaJapanSouth CoreaNorth

Uno se queda helado con estas frases y entiende porque el seleccionado albiceleste no anda en la cancha:

"No le tengo miedo a nadie. Me critique quien me critique. Desde los 15 años me vengo peleando con todos ustedes (por los periodistas). Hoy tengo 48 y los voy a seguir peleando.

Después de seguir con la racha de victorias en sus respectivas zonas, España e Inglaterra ya se pueden decir "clasificadas" para el mundial de Sudáfrica 2010.

España derrotó 3-0 a Estonia en el estadio José Fouto de Mérida España, mientras que Inglaterra hizo pedazos en Wembley a Croacia y ratificó su buen momento que lo lleva al mundial del próximo año.

España se clasifica matemáticamente para el Mundial de Sudáfrica 2010 tras ganar a Estonia por 3 a 0 en un partido bastante aburridete. Estonia nada ofreció y la roja, sin apretar el acelerador, le endosó tres goletes. Cesc (Secs, según Juan Carlos Rivero), Cazorla y Mata fueron los autores de los tantos.

The World Cup of 2010 is already taking shape, with eleven of the 32 teams on offer having already staked a claim towards a tournament berth.
The teams who have already qualified:
South Africa (CAF - as hosts)
Japan (AFC)
Australia (AFC)
South Korea (AFC)
Netherlands (UEFA)
North Korea (AFC)
Brazil (CONMEBOL)
Ghana (CAF)
England (UEFA)
Spain (UEFA)
Paraguay (CONMEBOL)

Around this time last year Canberra girl Grace Gill was an ACTAS players who still hoped of getting to the Matildas again (she had been thereabouts before, made the Young Matildas squad for a World Cup but didn't play and only had one Matildas cap), but no real way of getting there.
Fast-forward to this week and in the last 12-months, Gill would have claimed her second Matildas if not for ill-timed ankle injuries and she has been in every senior Matildas camp since the W-League finished.

Ismaeel Latif, el heroe de Bahrein
Están cerca del mundial Sudáfrica 2010, cuando nadie lo pensaba del país mas pequeño de la región del Golfo Pérsico. Bahrein cuenta casi la misma población que la capital de Buenos Aires y va en busca del milagro que lo deposite en la máxima competición a nivel selecciones.

Overnight Al Ain claimed their third UFL Super Cup in what turned out to be an entertaining night for all involved... except the Al Ahli fans I'm assuming. The match was a little scrappy throughout and wasn't as fluid as something you'd see in Europe or *cough*Australia*cough* and players were .

Paul Kennedy of Soccer America previews the United States Under-20 team as they head into the FIFA Under-20 World Championships.
Rongen's U-20s are surely the least fancied U.S. team to play in the world championships in a generation. A core of each U-20 team comes from the U-17 team two years earlier, but the 2007 U.

Hughton sings Newcastle's praises while Keane thinks Ipswich gave Nolan an early Christmas present. I was away this weekend. A close friend of mine is off to Australia for at least 3 years, so a bunch of us got together for beer and golf in Oxfordshire (and I use the term 'golf' in the loosest possible [.

Not everyone is happy with the A-League right now. Attendances are down on last season, with average crowds of around 6,200. Football Federation boss Ben Buckley has tried to put a positive spin on those numbers, by (somewhat bizarrely) claiming it was all part of the plan: "If you look at the crowd numbers overall they [.