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Fifa has confirmed England will be one of eight seeded teams when the World Cup draw
takes place this week.
Cape Town / Herzogenaurach (December 4, 2009) – adidas and FIFA present the adidas "JABULANI,"
the Official Match Ball for the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa. The "JABULANI," which means "to
celebrate" in isiZulu, features a South African inspired design and radically new technology. The
new match ball will be available in stores starting [.
Little more than nine months before the World Cup makes its first appearance in Africa, all but six
of the 32 team spots are still to be decided. So far, Japan, Australia, North and South Korea and
the Netherlands have captured places alongside host South Africa in the Dec. 4 draw at Cape Town,
although several more teams are banging on the door.
Generation adidas fell 2-1 to the reserve side of Santos, a team from South Africa's first
division. Rodney Wallace started and played 58 minutes, while Chris Pontius came on as a 54th
minute sub.
Here's the full match report from MLS, with lineups after the jump:
Major League Soccer's Generation adidas team suffered through a frustrating afternoon Wednesday,
falling 2-1 to Santos in Cape Town in the second game of their three-game tour against reserve
sides from the Premier Soccer League, South Africa's first division.
"I'm getting the words 'Group of Death'..."
It's time for you to look into your Sepp Blatter-shaped crystal ball and predict which group
England will land in tomorrow's World Cup draw in Cape Town. Exciting stuff, eh.
These are the four pots:
POT 1 (Seeds):
Argentina, Brazil, ENGLAND, Germany, Italy, Spain, South Africa, Holland
POT 2 (Asia, Oceania and North/Central America):
Australia, New Zealand, Honduras, Japan, North Korea, South Korea, Mexico, United
States.
By Clemente Lisi - NEW YORK, NY (Dec 4, 2009) USSoccerPlayers -- World Cup draws have traditionally
not been kind to the United States. That tradition (finally!) came to an end Friday in Cape Town.
Trying to predict which teams the US would be pitted against in the first round of next year's
World Cup was nearly impossible on the eve of the draw.
With World Cup qualifying dominating the footie newswire this week, and European club competitions
not set to resume until the weekend, I figured I'd take a quick look at The World Cup 2010: the
teams that are "in," or "almost in," and how I think the field will shape up...
I'll be in Cape Town in June 2010 - that's for certain, so which national teams will be joining me?
The wacky Sepp Blatter, FIFA's President, the same guy who last summer called Cristiano Ronaldo a
slave - singlehandedly re-igniting my sportswriting career, is back at it again.
This time, Blatter says that a major concern ahead of next year's World Cup in South Africa is an
accommodation shortage - and he is proposing the berthing of passenger cruise ships off Durban,
Cape Town, and Port Elizabeth to deal with the issue - setting up floating mini-hotels.
With less than 250 days left to the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa, the qualifying rounds are
coming to an end in exciting matches that are determining who will come to South Africa next year
and take their place in the Top 32 soccer teams in the world. This week will see the last of the
2010 qualifying games before the play-offs take place.
Despite the terrible WC qualifying campaign and despite everything else that's gone
wrong, Argentina will be a top seed in the World Cup.
momento24.com
Argentina among top seeds in World Cup 2010
Finally, Argentina is one of the seeded teams in the upcoming 2010 World Cup, FIFA said
today.
It seems to happen every time, no matter how they do the final draw – there always is a group
of death. This is when more big-name contenders are placed in a group than there are places in the
knockout rounds.
One Group with Many Favourites
We have seen that previous World Cup draws have almost always thrown up at least one section
brimming with pre-tournament favourites, and when after the first phase, is over, one or two of
them invariably find themselves packing for home.
I saw this article earlier on ESPNSoccernet. Apparently work has shut down at stadiums across
South Africa today over wage negotiations. Workers are demanding a 13 percent pay increase while
employers are offering 10.4 percent.
The strike means some of the World Cup venues for next summer's World Cup could see trouble in
finishing on time for the first Cup in Africa.
As mentioned before, thousands of South African construction workers walked off their jobs today
over pay disputes.
Here, more about the story including some interesting quotes from the Associated Press ...
South African construction workers went on an indefinite strike Wednesday at stadiums
being built for the 2010 World Cup -- a move that could derail Africa's historic first World Cup
tournament.
Just as the football at the 2010 World Cup will be great, someone will make lots of money. It is
not going to be local businesses for sure. This excellent 13 minute short documentary ("Trademark
2010″) for Dutch TV channel, VPRO, covers the fantasy that local people–small businesspeople,
informal traders–will make money or get jobs during the tournament.
Uh-oh, it all kicked off in Cape Town earlier. US bid leaders reacted with fury after Luis Figo's
arrival interrupted their video presentation of the their campaign for the 2018 and 2022 World
Cups. The arrival of Figo, bid ambassador for the rival Spain/Portugal bid, led to a rush of
reporters and photographers leaving the USA's video right in the middle of the presentation.
Cape Town on Friday for the World Cup draw. There's something creepy about this, isn't
there?
Photo credit: wooze66 on Flickr, via the Pitch Invasion Photo
Pool.
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Bjorn Heidelstrom is cycling from Oslo to Cape Town and collecting signed
football jerseys from all teams of all levels along the way. All these shirts will be be sewn
together to form the world's largest signed football-shirt - a symbol of the unity of the football
family and its solidarity with the plight of young refugees.
by TRAVIS CLARK
After three years of World Cup qualifying, the 32-team tournament field is set for next summer.
Attention now turns to the December 4 draw in Cape Town, when the 32 nation field will learn their
fate.
It was a hectic day across several continents as the final six spots were sewn up.
by TRAVIS CLARK
After three years of World Cup qualifying, the 32-team tournament field is set for next summer.
Attention now turns to the December 4 draw in Cape Town, when the 32 nation field will learn their
fate.
It was a hectic day across several continents as the final six spots were sewn up.
I already wrote about official world cup 2010 fixtures, but here are some more fixtures:
Bloemfontein (Mangaung)This is the match schedule at Bloemfontein's Free State Stadium.
14 Jun
17 Jun
20 Jun
22 Jun
25 Jun
27 Jun
E3 v E4
B4 v B2
F4 v F2
A4 v A1
H2 v H3
1D v 2C(4)
Cape TownThis is the fixture list at Cape Town Greenpoint stadium:
11 Jun
14 Jun
18 Jun
21 Jun
24 Jun
29 Jun
3 Jul
6 Jul
A3 v A4
F4 v F2
C1 v C3
G4 v G2
E4 v E1
1H v 2G(8)
2 v 4(B)
A v C(1)
DurbanThis is the fixture list at Durban Moses Mabhida Stadium:
13 Jun
16 Jun
19 Jun
22 Jun
25 Jun
28 Jun
7 Jul
D1 v D2
H1 v H2
E1 v E3
B2 v B3
G4 v G1
E1 v 2F(5)
B v D(1)
JohannesburgThis is the match schedule at Soccer City in Johannesburg:
11 Jun
14 Jun
17 Jun
20 Jun
23 Jun
27 Jun
2 Jul
11 Jul
A1 v A2
E1 v E2
B1 v B3
G1 v G3
D4 v D1
1B v 2A(2)
1 v 3(A)
WORLD CUP FINAL
This is the fixture list for World Cup matches at Ellis Park:
12 Jun
15 Jun
18 Jun
21 Jun
23 Jun
24 Jun
28 Jun
3 Jul
B1 v B2
G1 v G2
C4 v C2
H1 v H3
D4 v D1
F4 v F1
1G v 2H(7)
6 v 8(D)
NelspruitThis is the match schedule at Nelspruit's Mbombela Stadium.
As all you football connoisseurs will know, Friday 4th December 2009 is undoubtedly the most
important day in this year's calendar, for that is the day when FIFA make their draw for the 2010
World Cup Finals.
The *second* most important day, however, is Monday 30th November 2009, for that is the day when
The Sound of Football podcast does its own draw for the 2010 World Cup.
Discredited Fifa president Sepp Blatter has issued an apology to the Football
Association of Ireland after he was accused of breaking assurances of private discussions regarding
the ongoing World Cup saga.
The row erupted in the continuing fall-out from Ireland's elimination by France after Thierry
Henry's now infamous handball.
By Clemente Lisi - NEW YORK, NY (Dec 3, 2009) USSoccerPlayers -- The World Cup is loaded with facts
and figures. While Cape Town prepares to host the 90-minute final draw Friday with all the
trappings of an Academy Awards ceremony (Oscar winner Charlize Theron will co-host) before a global
TV audience of 200 million, the numbers reveal that the 2010 tournament will be one for the record
books.
Charlize Theron
OK, I had to do this to show solidarity with my Irish friends. Oh, and to put a picture of the
lovely Charlize Theron on my website!
From the Irish Independent comes the story Theron has a ball at FIFA's expense
AT THIS stage we all accept that it is the nearest Ireland will get to the World Cup draw.
Signs of our times.Preparations for today's World Cup finals draw in Cape Town were disturbed by
two separate bomb scares....
To keep our minds on football here's a look at some great skill from Ibrahimovic during Barca's
recent 2-0 win over Xerez.
We know the 32 teams that will make up the World Cup in South Africa. We already know which group
South Africa will go to. Today we will find out the destinations of the other 31 teams.
The World Cup Draw has just been made in Cape Town. Now which team do you think can lift the
trophy in 2010? Vote below in our World Cup Poll.
Which team will win the World Cup in South Africa?
(polls)
In case you weren't already aware, the draw for the 2010 World Cup finals took place in Cape Town a
matter of hours ago. Here are the groups it conjured up:
Group A: South Africa, Mexico, Uruguay, France
Group B: Argentina, Nigeria, Korea Republic, Greece
Group C: England, USA, Algeria, Slovenia
Group D: Germany, Australia, Serbia, Ghana
Group E: Netherlands, Denmark, Japan, Cameroon
Group F: Italy, Paraguay, New Zealand, Slovakia
Group G: Brazil, Korea DPR, Côte d'Ivoire, Portugal
Group H: Spain, Switzerland, Honduras, Chile
My only real reaction now is commiserations to Côte d'Ivoire, Africa's finest handed a desperately
tough draw for the second World Cup running.
Final FIFA world cup 2010 draw and final world cup schedule is finally there!
We were waiting for this long time, so much talks about world cup fixtures, and other more and less
important stuffs from analyzing team power, predicting results of world cup to some betting and
where find world cup tickets to other topics.
A heavy dose of reality crashed down upon African hopes of a maiden Fifa World Cup title after
Friday's draw pitched the continent's most-fancied teams in challenging groups.
In the build-up to the Cape Town draw, where locals flooded the city centre for the most
colourful of street parties, most of the talk centred upon Ghana and Ivory Coast spearheading
Africa's unlikely quest.
Japan and the Netherlands will battle it out in next year's World Cup, but the Dutch coach has some
homework to do after failing to recognise his Japanese opposite number at a Cape Town dinner.
Japan's Takeshi Okada said he was speaking with Australia coach Pim Verbeek, a Dutchman, on the ...
A catamaran glides past Green Point Stadium in Cape Town, site of the England-Algeria World Cup
group game among others. (AP Photo)
Thinking of going to South Africa for the World Cup?
Read this.
Charlize Theron pulls Irelands name out of the hat!
Prankster Charlize Theron shares a gag with David Beckham and Jerome Valcke during rehearsals
for the 2010 World Cup draw in Cape Town recently (sorry Ireland!).
This is the first in a series of posts looking at the progress of the construction for the
three new stadiums being built in South Africa for the 2010 World Cup.
Green Point Stadium, Cape Town
The stadium under construction is located in Green Point, between Signal Hill and the Atlantic
Ocean and close to Cape Town's city centre.
Ukraine have beaten Portugal 5-4 to win the 2009 Homeless World Cup in Milan.
What is the Homeless World Cup?
The Homeless World Cup is an annual, international football tournament, uniting teams of people
who are homeless and excluded to take a once in a lifetime opportunity to represent their country
and change their lives forever.
Dear Carlos,
Many many many congratulations from Denmark with the qualification
to the FIFA World Cup 2010. It was fantastic for you and your team and especially for the "World
Cup". The FIFA World Cup 2010 in South Africa would not be the same without a world class team as
Portugal.
With anticipation growing ahead of the 2010 FIFA World Cup South
Africa™, the official Match Schedule has been released. To find out where the games will be
played in Cape Town, Durban, Johannesburg, Mangaung/Bloemfontein, Nelson Mandela Bay/Port
Elizabeth, Nelspruit, Polokwane, Rustenburg, Tshwane/Pretoria between 11 June and 11 July 2010.
Após uma viagem de duas horas - mais do que Lisboa a Paris - chegámos a Cape Town, cidade onde se
realizará o sorteio do Mundial. Todas as referências que temos sobre África aqui estão
completamente esbatidas. Esta é uma África diferente, ocidentalizada, desenvolvida. Waterfront, a
mais famosa das zonas de restauração e comércio tem semelhanças com a nossa Vilamoura,
multiplicada por cinco.
I will be Twittering on Uruguay for The Guardian during the World Cup draw in Cape Town.
Expect a heavy Uruguayan flavour in the coming hours. A virtual Dulce de Leche of Uruguayan
football.
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Associating beautiful women with the beautiful game seems like a good match.
Down under, Australia has turned to Nicole Kidman to help strengthen the country's World Cup bids
for the 2018 and 2022 tournaments.
Nicole Kidman is the face of Australia's new bid video, which Football Federation
Australia officials are showing to FIFA powerbrokers while world football's glitterati are gathered
in Cape Town for the highly-anticipated World Cup draw.
