2010 FIFA WORLD CUP SOUTHAFRICA

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

pictures Lionel Messi Argentina v Germany: 2010 FIFA World Cup - Quarter Finals

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The FIFA World Cup 2010 - South Africa

Official logo of The FIFA World Cup 2010

It's down to single digits in the countdown! 9 DAYS to the biggest event on Earth. Men go GAGA for one month. Women for once sit beside men to watch 22 men tussling for a ball. You can call it stupid, but we call it, THE BEAUTIFUL GAME...

Zakumi, the mascot

Jabulani, the official match ball

Wavin' Flag (Celebration Mix) by K'naan is the official theme song for this event. Click here to get the lyrics!

This time football's biggest stage is held at South Africa - a first in an Africa continent. 32 teams ( 4 from Asia, 3 North America, 6 from Africa, 5 from South America, 1 from Oceanic, and 13 from Europe) from all over the world battled through the qualifying stage before they can get into this big event.

Which team are you be supporting? Or do YOU know which team has qualified??? Here they are in their respective group stage. To progress to the knockout stage, each country must have a TOP TWO position in their respective groups after playing their opponents in their respective groups.

Group A- South Africa, Mexico, Uruguay, France
Group B- Argentina, Nigeria, South Korea, Greece
Group C- England, United States, Algeria, Slovenia
Group D- Germany, Australia, Serbia, Ghana
Group E- Netherlands, Denmark, Japan, Cameroon
Group F- Italy, Paraguay, New Zealand, Slovakia
Group G- Brazil, North Korea, Ivory Coast, Portugal
Group H- Spain, Switzerland, Honduras, Chile

* Remember, top two position to progress to next round, which is the round of 16...

History

It was called the Jules Rimet Trophy before changing to the current trophy. The trophy was given to Brazil for winning it the 3rd time but it was stolen and melted... =(

The Jules Rimet Trophy

The current trophy of men's most coveted prize

THE BEST OF THE BEST

There are some players, who have etched their name in World Cup history. As heroes of their nation, and as a legend in football history... Introducing...

ALL TIME TOP SCORER...

Luiz Ronaldo from Brazil. 15 goals in 3 world cup tournaments...

Most World Cups Won

Brazil, 5 times

Defending Champions

Italy, champions in the 2006 World Cup Germany

Thursday, April 19, 2012

Team News for Cesc Fabregas starts for Barcelona as Chelsea Select Didier Drogba is Preferred to Torres.

The Cesc Fabregas starts for Barcelona in the Catalans Champions League semi-final first leg against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge on Wednesday night to the Blues boss Roberto Di Matteo has left his international team-mate Fernando Torres on the bench for the cesc spoke of his desire to win the Champions League in Tuesday's pre-match press conference to a he looks to emulate his Barca team-mates in claimed the trophy last term and also in 2008-09, beating the Blues en route to victory in Pep Guardiola's first season in charge at Camp Nou.

They are tonight's clash, there is no place for Gerard Pique in a four-man Barca defence as Carles Puyol and Javier Mascherano start in the central-defensive slots to the Adriano at left-back in Chelsea, Didier Drogba is preferred to Torres after his impressive display in the FA Cup semi-final to Tottenham on Sunday and the john Obi mikel, Frank Lampard and Raul Meireles get the nod in midfield for the west London outfit and will go head to head with Barca trio Xavi, Andres Iniesta and Sergio Busquets.

Chelsea Squad:

Cech; Ivanovic, Cahill, Terry, Cole; Mikel, Meireles, Lampard; Ramires, Mata, Drogba

Subs: Turnbull, Essien, Malouda, Bosingwa, Torres, Kalou, Sturridge

Barcelona Squad:

Valdes; Alves, Puyol, Mascherano, Adriano; Busquets, Xavi, Iniesta; Cesc, Alexis, Messi

Subs: Pinto, Pique, Pedrito, Bartra, Keita, Thiago, Cuenca

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

We Can Win World Cup Says Barcelona star Lionel Messi

The barcelona star Lionel Messi would love to experience success on the international stage with Argentina and he has believes Argentina are improving under new coach Alejandro Sabella and have what it takes to lift the World Cup to he has won a host of honours with the Catalan giants in the UEFA Champions League and La Liga title to has rarely produced his club form on the international stage and is yet to taste major success for the Albiceleste.

And the Messi is confident the outlook is bright for Argentina with Sabella at the helm and feels a major title is just around the corner to i still have this dream and that is to be a world champion and lift the Copa America with the national side, Messi said in an interview with the Argentina Football Association and i know I'll do it, I am convinced I shall and we would love to win a title with the national team to i am just another one in the group who wants to do the best for Argentine football, nothing more.

A barcelona are the best team in the world result of years of hard work with the same team-mates to it is more difficult with the national side we have been through a lot of chopping and changing of coaches and we are growing and I know we are going to achieve a lot of a argentina to flopped at the Copa America on home soil in July and who are without a major title to since 1993 are 6/1 with Sky Bet to lift the World Cup in 2014.

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Phil Dowd to referee for FA Cup final Match between Chelsea and Liverpool at Wembley

Phil Dowd referee has been chosen to officiate the FA Cup final between Chelsea and Liverpool at Wembley and the 49-year-old has previously taken charge of the 2010 Carling Cup final and this season's Community Shield, and was fourth official at the 2006 FA Cup final to he is delighted to have been awarded the 5th May showpiece and will be fulfilling a dream by officiating the match was honoured and privileged when I found out Dowd told the FA's official website.

And they are would never have thought in my wildest dreams that when I first started refereeing in 1984 that one day I'd be refereeing the FA Cup final watching the final as a boy was something I always loved to do in the david elleray FA Referees Committee Chairman, said: "I would like to congratulate Phil and the team on their appointments for this year's FA Cup final, which is fully deserved.

A huge honour to be selected as a match official for what remains the world's most famous and best-loved cup competition and i am sure Phil and the others will be really looking forward to both the build-up to the final and walking out onto the Wembley pitch on 5 May for the dowd assistants for the final will be Stuart Burt and Andrew Garratt, Michael Jones is the fourth official and Simon Long is the reserve assistant referee and the liverpool booked their spot in the final by beating Merseyside rivals Everton 2-1 on Saturday to the following day Chelsea thrashed Tottenham Hotspur 5-1.

Monday, April 16, 2012

Spain coach Vicente del Bosque is not worried about Champions League final between Real Madrid Vs Barcelona.

A 61-year-old Spain coach Vicente del Bosque insists that he does not fear the repercussions of a continental final between the two clubs ahead of Euro 2012 in Poland and Ukraine and the two primera division giants met each other in the semi-finals of the competition in 2010-11, with Barca coming out on top 3-1 on aggregate to the both legs of the tie saw emotions boil over to the Del Bosque is not worried that the same thing might happen again, ahead of Euro 2012.

We are must enjoy this moment, because there are five Spanish clubs in the semi-finals of European competitions and the national team has nothing to do with that he told reporters to we want a champions league final between Madrid and Barca to that will not damage the national team, because we know that some will win, and some will lose for the players are prepared for that.

And the world cup in 2010, we experienced the same problem with Andres Iniesta, Cesc Fabregas and Fernando Torres to that we waited until the end with a certain feeling that they would be fit and we were right of a spain will take on italy, croatia and republic of ireland in the group stage at Euro 2012.

Thursday, April 12, 2012

Real Madrid attacker Cristiano Ronaldo says Losing is not in my vocabulary

He has highlighted the importance of Wednesday's 4-1 victory against atletico madrid at the vicente calderon, believing it was a vital step towards claiming the Primera Division title, and cristiano ronaldo added that 'losing is not in his vocabulary'.

A Portugal international grabbed his seventh hat-trick of the 2011-12 Liga season, before jose callejon helped to make the result even more expressive with a goal of his own for the radamel falcao had earlier drawn Atleti briefly level to the victory allowed real madrid to maintain the four-point gap between to Barcelona at the top of the table, and Ronaldo believes that his side have taken an important step towards winning the league.

And the ronaldo then expressed his happiness to have taken his league tally to 40 goals following Wednesday's hat-trick to i am very happy to have scored and picked up an assist," he noted to we have to continue like this."I am very happy, but without my team-mates I could not have done it was going to be a tough match, but we gave a good account of ourselves against a very strong Atletico side of a cristiano ronaldo has now scored 52 goals in all competitions following Wednesday's hat-trick, and became the 1st player to score 20 goals away from home in a single Liga season.