Francesco Totti Wishes Italy Good Luck | World Cup 2010 News & Tickets
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Italy Coach Marcello Lippi Gives Clues Over Francesco Totti …
Italy coach Marcello Lippi has given the clearest hint yet as to how his World Cup squad will look in relation to questions hanging over Francesco Totti , Alessandro Nesta and Amauri. The latter two of that trio look least likely to …
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Who Do You Think Will Qualify To South Africa 2010 World Cup?
south africa, north korea, south korea, netherlands, australia, and japan ARE QUALIFIED.
12 from europe (not including netherlands)
4 from africa (not including south africa)
3 from north america
4 from south america
PLUS the playoffs that include
winner between (saudi arabia vs bahrain) VS. New Zealand. the winner of this playoff will GO directly to to the world cup.
and
playoff of 1 team from south america VS 1 team from north america
so in reality we could see in the world cup 3 teams from n. america and 5 from south america, or 4 and 4 from each continent.
FOR MORE INFO, go to fifa.com
If North Korea Gets Banned From The 2010 World Cup Due To Government Interference…?
Will Kim Jong-Il threaten to nuke FIFA off the face of the earth?
Who Has The Most Difficult And Who Has The Most Easy Group In World Cup 2010?
Looking at the World Cup groups, and being a geek, I’ve worked out the average opposition ranking for all the highest ranked teams in their respective world cup groups. Obviously this exercise is erroneous in many respects as everyone would be sure that North Korea will find Group G more difficult than Brazil will. So I’ve compared the average opposition ranking for all the highest ranked teams in their groups to show which ‘BIG’ team has the least excuse to go out in the first round. 
Also, remember that these group difficulties are only as true as the FIFA World Cup Rankings, but seeing as these decided the seedings of the draw, we might aswell use them!
AOR (Average Opponent Ranking)
Group A – France – AOR = 40th
Group B – Argentina – AOR = 29th
Group C – England – AOR = 25th
Group D – Germany – AOR = 26th
Group E – Netherlands – AOR = 27th
Group F – Italy – AOR = 47th
Group G – Brazil – AOR = 35th
Group H – Spain – AOR = 24th
This means that, in order, top to bottom, of most easy group to most difficult it goes -
Italy
France
Brazil
Argentina
Netherlands
Germany
England
Spain
I reckon this just proves that Maths has NO place in football, as I would say the group of death is easily Group G, and the group of…erm… easy, is Italys.
If we take into account the ‘seeds’ ranking aswell, we get a very clear picture of the difficulty of the group ‘overall’ for all the teams.
Group ‘H’ = Group of Death with average ranking of 19th.
Group F = Easiest group with average ranking of 36th.
I would say the only reason for Brazil, Portugal, Ivory Coast and North Korea not being the mathematical group of death is because North Koreas ranking is so low (84th) that it drags the average right down. As it would be an average of 7th without them.
What do you all think?
If North Korea Qualify For 2010 Fifa World Cup, Will Any Fans Be Allowed To Travel To South Africa?
and if they travel, will they be forced to return to north korea? north korea are doing very well at the moment.
