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Asian Sides Set For South Africa 2010

by George Metellus on June 18, 2009 · 0 comments

The Asian Con­fed­er­a­tion has final­ized its auto­matic places for South Africa 2010 and it took some fan­tas­tic last match drama to fill the last auto­matic spot. The drama cen­tered around the match between Saudi Ara­bia and Korea DPR. The win­ner would advance and the loser was in jeop­ardy of miss­ing out on the play­off with […]

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This edi­tion of the World Cup Buzz Top 5 will break­down the Top 5 Things Observed From The June World Cup Qual­i­fy­ing Matches. Let’s begin with CONCACAF’s best team. COSTA RICA IS THE BEST IN CONCACAF Los Ticos have estab­lished them­selves as the best team in CONCACAF after their impres­sive dis­plays against the United States and […]

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This weekend’s round of Asian World Cup Qual­i­fiers wit­nessed the fill­ing of 3 of its 4 auto­matic spots. In Group 1, Aus­tralia secured its spot in South Africa with a 0–0 draw against Qatar. 2010 will mark the 3rd time that the Soc­ceroos will appear in The Great Tour­na­ment. Japan also locked up the other […]

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We head back to the club sched­ule this week­end, specif­i­cally in Europe.  How­ever the per­for­mances of national teams can­not be ignored.  So much drama and so we’re here to pick a Team Of The Week.  The TOW played matches and/or made head­lines dur­ing the cal­en­dar week of March 26 — April 2. The winner is:

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This weekend’s matches in Asia pro­vided fur­ther proof that there is some high qual­ity, dra­matic foot­ball being played in Asia.  The race for 3rd place in Group 1 just got more inter­est­ing as Uzbek­istan moved into a 3-way tie with Qatar and Bahrain.  Uzbek­istan rose above the Qatar defense for a crush­ing 4–0 home win.  […]

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Asian World Cup Qual­i­fy­ing for 2010 will be halfway over after this round of matches and we will be closer to know­ing who will be in for sure and who will be vying for the play­off between the two 3rd place teams in each group. In Group 1, Japan and Aus­tralia could solid­ify their places in the The Great Tour­na­ment if […]

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After a much deserved break, World Cup qual­i­fy­ing con­tin­ues this month. Teams from Asia, UEFA, and CONCACAF will be com­pet­ing to take a step closer to play­ing in the 2010 World Cup. Here are the fix­tures for the upcom­ing week [Home Teams Listed First]:

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