All countries of World Cup 2010
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November 18th, 2009
Today, November 18th 2009, Uruguay became the 32nd and last country to confirm presence in the World Cup 2010.
The following countries will play the finals of the World Cup 2010:
South Africa: host country, only pre-qualified country (until 1994 2002 – rectified, thanks to the commenter who pointed the mistake – the previous winner was also qualified - France, winner of 1998, was the last one to benefit from this).
From Africa: Algeria, Ghana, Nigeria, Cote d’Ivoire, Cameroon.
From Asia/Oceania: Japan, Australia, North Korea, South Korea, New Zealand.
From North and Central America: Honduras, USA and Mexico.
From Europe: Netherlands, Spain, England, Italy, Germany, Denmark, Serbia, Switzerland, Slovakia, Portugal, Slovenia, Greece, France.
From South America: Brazil, Paraguay, Chile, Argentina and Uruguay.
In World Cup finals, Brazil has already played against: Cameroon (1994), Algeria (1978), Japan (2006), New Zealand (1982), Australia (2006), USA (1994), Netherlands (1974, 1994, 1998), Spain (1934, 1950, 1978, 1986), England (1958, 1970, 2002), Italy (1938, 1970, 1978, 1982, 1994), Germany (1974, 2002), Switzerland (1950), Denmark (1998), Portugal (1966), France (1958, 1986, 1998, 2006), Mexico (1950, 1954, 1962), Chile (1962, 1998), Argentina (1974, 1978, 1982, 1990) and Uruguay (1950, 1970).
Brazil also played against Yugoslavia (1930, 1950, 1954, 1974) and the Czech Republic (1938, 1962 and 1970), which later would split and give origin to Serbia, Slovenia and Slovakia. Considering also these split-ups, none of the countries is making a first appearance in the World Cups finals.
All previous World Champions will be in South Africa. Also, all major football countries will be there, (see this comparison between countries in the Cup versus FIFA rankings).
The 32 teams will be divided into eight groups; the draw will occur on December 4th 2009. The draw will be conducted in such a way that all groups will have stronger, strong, weak and weaker countries (as per FIFA judgment).
After the draw, this blog will recall past performances of Brazil against their first three adversaries.
November 28th, 2009 at 6:19 pm
I Think the France team also had his participation guaranteed for the 2002 world cup. The first time the previous champion (Brazil) had not an automatic berth was in the 2006 world cup and Brazil team had to play the qualifying.
November 28th, 2009 at 7:47 pm
Luis,
You’re right.
I fixed the post.
Thanks,