International Soccer- World Cup 2010, South Africa 2010 Live Odds, Standings, Scores and Venues

2010 World Cup

Group Stage

Teams Group A South Africa Mexico Uruguay France	Teams Group B Argentina Nigeria Korea Republic Greece	Teams Group C England United States Algeria Slovenia
Teams Group D Germany Australia Serbia Ghana	Teams Group E Netherlands Denmark Japan Cameroon	Teams Group F Italy Paraguay New Zealand Slovakia
Teams Group G Brazil Korea DPR Côte d'Ivoire Portugal	Teams Group H Spain Switzerland Honduras Chile

The Qualifying Process

World Cup

• Host South Africa
• Dates 11 June - 11 July 2010
• Teams 32 from 5 or 6 confederations
• Venues 10 placed in 9 host cities
• Official Site

To be able to participate in this tournament each national team has to play what is called 'eliminatories' in each confederation.

In this time only the host nation, South Africa, qualifies automatically for the tournament.

However, South Africa is the first host since 1934 to participate in World Cup qualifiers. This is because the CAF qualifiers also serve as the qualifying tournament for the 2010 African Cup of Nations, for which South Africa had to qualify separately.

Unlike the previous tournament, the defending champions Italy do not qualify automatically.

The preliminary draw for the 2010 World Cup was held in Durban, South Africa, on 25 November 2007 and the Final draw will be staged in Cape Town, South Africa, on 4 December 2009 at the Cape Town International Convention Centre.

This Final draw consists in 32 teams that will compete in the 2010 FIFA World Cup, with one place allocated for the hosts, South Africa.

In the qualification process for the 2010 World Cup, the six confederations are fighting for a share of the 31 remaining spots on the basis of the strength of their teams.

The distribution of these 31 spots is:

• Europe (UEFA): 13 places
• Africa (CAF): 5 places (+ South Africa qualified automatically as host nation for a total of 6 places)
• South America (CONMEBOL): 4 or 5 places
• Asia (AFC): 4 or 5 places
• North, Central American and Caribbean (CONCACAF): 3 or 4 places
• Oceania (OFC): 0 or 1 place

Only the UEFA and the CAF have a guaranteed number of places, the other confederation's number of qualifiers depend on play-offs between the highest placed teams in the qualification tournaments not guaranteed a place in the finals:

• CONCACAF 4th place v CONMEBOL 5th place
• AFC 5th place v OFC winner

At the close of entries on 15 March 2007, 204 out of the 208 FIFA members had entered the preliminary qualifying competition for the 2010 World Cup. South Africa was amongst these teams, as the qualification procedure in Africa is also due to act as the qualification for the 2010 African Nations Cup.

Only three AFC members: Brunei, Laos and the Philippines had failed to register for the tournament.

Bhutan were allowed to enter at the last minute and were included in the Asian preliminary draw, Papua New Guinea were disqualified from the Oceania Preliminary competition, and Brunei and the Philippines had their entries rejected (having missed the deadline).

The final number of teams entered breaks the previous record of 199 entrants set in 2002. However, five of those teams withdrew during qualifying without playing a match: Bhutan, Central African Republic, Eritrea, Guam and São Tomé and Príncipe.

Zakumi - The Official Mascot

The official mascot for the 2010 World Cup is going to be a green hair leopard named 'Zakumi'. He's name come from a composition of 'ZA' standing for South Africa and 'kumi', which translates into '10' in various african languages.

He is intended to be a jolly, self-confident, adventurous, spontaneous, and actually a quite shrewd little fellow.

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