Official World Cup 2010 Qualifying Thread

[guilt_trip]

Well that's probably the best we could have hoped for, although thats what was said about the Euro group. Why does England suck so bad traveling to eastern Europe?

Also I look forward to the England-Kazakhstan home game for the hilarious Borat references and costumes.....NOT!

Also can someone explain CONCAF qualification to me? 4 teams qualify with random matches during/after the group phase? Also will they let USA play in Havana or Cuba play in the US? May end up on neutral ground I suppose

[JaredL]

How many Cubans will be left on their team a week after they play at the US? Similarly, how many North Koreans will abandon after they play in Seoul?

guilt,

Concacaf is confusing. Bump Bailey has given you the draw. So the US plays the winner of Dominica and Barbados in a home and home. The winner there is put into a group with the 3 other winners. These four teams play in a group, playing each team twice. The top two teams from that group are put with the top 2 teams in the other two groups to make a 6-team group. There you play everybody twice. Top 3 go to the finals and fourth plays the 5th team from South America.

It's actually not that far off from the Champions League when they did the group stage twice. It's basically:
Qualifying Round 1 (QR1)- bottom 24 teams versus each other
Qualifying Round 2 (QR2)- top 12 teams each face a winner from QR1
Group Stage 1 (GS1) - winners from QR2 put into 3 four-team groups
Group Stage 2 (GS2) - top two from each group in GS1 put in one 6-team group.

Top 3 advance, fourth plays 5th team from South America.

It would be much easier to grasp if they just played the rounds then did the draws.

[JaredL]

guilt,

I forgot to comment on England. I think they have trouble traveling to Eastern Europe because it's really freaking far away, the weather is often bad, and relative to before the gap in quality is much smaller.

[Bedreviter]

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Also I look forward to the England-Kazakhstan home game for the hilarious Borat references and costumes.....NOT!

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You seriously don´t want for something like this to happen?