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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 [.
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.
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.
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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the Pitch Invasion photo pool.
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)
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.
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.
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!).
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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England have been seeded for the World Cup finals along with South Africa, Brazil, Spain,
Netherlands, Italy, Germany and Argentina, FIFA announced at a press conference in Cape Town.
FIFA chose to base the seedings upon their October 2009 FIFA world rankings. That France have been
placed into the general pot of European teams may be seen as punishment for their controversial win
over Ireland in the World Cup play-offs.
FIFA confirmed the composition of the pots for the Final Draw on Friday. They are as follows: Pot 1
(seeds): South Africa, Brazil, Spain, Netherlands, Italy, Germany, Argentina, England Pot 2:
Australia, Japan, North Korea, South Korea, New Zealand, USA, Mexico, Honduras Pot 3: Algeria,
Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay Pot 4: Denmark, France, Greece,
Portugal, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland So in the end, the makeup of the pots is exactly
what MARCA leaked out three weeks ago.
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.
Move over, Claudia. Johnny Clegg coming.
The FIFA Organising Committee came correct today. The decision to base the procedure for the Final
Draw of the 2010 World Cup on the October 2009 World Ranking is a good one. The ranking system was
raw at first, but now it is more refined and provides a rather useful way to measure the relative
successes and failures of the world's footballing nations.
FIFA finalized procedures for Friday's World Cup Draw, also known in these parts as the
impending Cape Town Crusher.
U.S. supporters were pinning some slim hopes on a slight tweak from past methodology, with the
United States perhaps placed into a grouping alongside South American or African teams.
Nesta parte da África do Sul, Cape Town, os desportos mais populares são o Raguebi e o Cricket.
Sem querer ofender ninguém - é uma realidade - estes desportos são essencialmente da minoria
branca. O futebol é essencialmente praticado e adorado pela maioria dos sul-africanos negros.
In November, Adidas unveiled its new kit design for Bafana Bafana, South Africa's national team.
The project is aimed at uniting all South Africans in support of both the football tournament and
national team Bafana Bafana. The word Mzansi is isiZulu for "south", and is commonly used to refer
to South Africa.
Representatives of the 32 teams qualified for South Africa 2010 are making their way towards Cape
Town.
Sepp Blatter convened an extra-ordinary meeting in Cape Town as if the future of the game was on
the line. For all that hyperventilating what was accomplished? Extra-ordinarily little.
- No additional referees. We go to the normal complement of main referee, his two assistants and
a fourth official.
Tomorrow marks yet another milestone in the South Africa 2010 World Cup journey. At exactly
20oohrs local time at the Cape Town conventional centre the FIFA group stages draw will take
place.
The seeding for this draw was based on the FIFA/CocaCola October 2009 rankings with Brazil,
Spain, Netherlands, Italy, Germany, Argentina, England and hosts South Africa being seeded in pot
one.
In a matter of hours, the 2010 World Cup field will be officially set. The draw is set to be made
at 17:00 GMT time and 19:00 South Africa time. At a FIFA executive meeting in Cape Town, South
Africa, FIFA decided eight seeds: hosts South Africa, title holders Italy, Argentina, Brazil,
England, Germany, the Netherlands and [.
CAPE TOWN -- The World Cup draw has yet to take place but the U.S. was already dealt a cruel
hand before learning its fate on Friday. Tuesday's pot announcement saw the U.S. and the rest of
CONCACAF grouped with the Asia and Oceania qualifiers. Full list below:
Pot 1: South Africa (hosts), Argentina, Brazil, England, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands,
Spain
Pot 2: Australia, Honduras, Japan, Korea DPR, Korea Republic, Mexico, New Zealand, United
States
Pot 3: Algeria, Cameroon, Chile, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Nigeria, Paraguay, Uruguay
Pot 4: Denmark, France, Greece, Portugal, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland
While the news is certainly unfortunate, there's no reason to believe FIFA would do anything to
favor the Americans.
Due to a little development in Cape Town Friday morning. (International vintage sailing
convention.) I'm rattling off the usual Premier League preview/picks a little earlier so it doesn't
get buried. Here are a couple nuggets to hold you over. * Currently slogging through
"Soccernomics." Some of it is fascinating, the rest is skippable.
The Don will be in Cape Town tomorrow for the draw. I will be in New York because I do not have the
kind of juice that gets you business class seats on intercontinental flights. But if I did I would
send you all back pictures and notes from abroad just like The Don. Instead you'll be getting a
bunch of New York noise from me tomorrow as I hang with Lando, hit up Nike Town & ESPN Zone for
draw parties and rock out at Nevada Smith's.
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.
Sunil Gulati, the president of United States Soccer, arrived in Cape Town Thursday with two
missions: Keeping his fingers crossed for...
CAPE TOWN -- The countdown is nearly over and the excitement will reach a boiling point in just
a few short hours. Up to this point, the people of South Africa have been working and putting
everything they have into 2010. Excitement is building in the streets, as a marathon party is
planned to celebrate the arrival of the World Cup to the African continent.
So after Friday's World Cup draw in Cape Town, will the U.S. find itself in the Group of Death or
the Group of Death by 1,000 Cuts? Or will manager Bob Bradley find his team facing the kind of
cushy trio that will draw envious glances from his international coaching colleagues?
The best-case scenario: South Africa, Slovenia and Uruguay
The middle-of-the-road scenario: England, Denmark, Nigeria
The nightmare scenario: Brazil, Netherlands, Ivory Coast
Check out or exclusive gallery of the 68,000-capacity Green Point Stadium in Cape Town. What a
beautiful location it has, in the shadow of Table Mountain. The stadium cost approximately £220
million and boasts a noise-reducing cladding covering the exterior, no doubt to keep in the noise
of those damned vuvuzelas.
