Saturday, June 12, 2010
Friday, June 11, 2010
Latest Live football match FIFA 2010
Saturday, 12 June 2010
South Korea v Greece, Gp B, 12:30
Argentina v Nigeria, Gp B, 15:00
England v USA, Gp C, 19:30
Friday, June 4, 2010
Fifa 2010 coach Diego Armando Maradona - Argentina
Diego Armando Maradona - Argentina
The legendary former Argentine midfielder is either mocked or praised. Diego Armando Maradona created for himself a special place amongst football’s legends. Who doesn’t know how much the controversy of the ‘Hand of God’ elevated and popularized him as much as he had ever imagined?Maradona is regarded as ‘Lionel Messi’s father’ or ‘the greatest god of football’, and now he is in charge of Argentina’s national football team. He will have at his disposal a number of stars that any coach could envy. The combination of attacking minded players such as Carlos Tevez, Sergio Aguero, Gonzalo Higuain, and the reigning footballer of the year Lionel Messi has put Argentina under the pressure of delivering during the World Cup. Maradona often makes the headlines for his behavior and for negative rumors. In South Africa, it will be time for him to grab the headlines for Argentina’s success.
Presently, Maradona may not enjoy total respect from other coaches and players with Barcelona’s Seidou Keita going as far as sarcastically suggesting him to sell newspapers rather than coach the Albicelestes. Just as he did on the last day of the South American 2010 World Cup qualification campaign, Diego Maradona could silence his critics in South Africa. Oh, and maybe there’ll be another ‘Hand of God’ incident to offer luck to the Argentines.
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Saturday, May 29, 2010
Argentina national football team
Argentina is one of the most successful national football teams in the world, and is currently seventh in the FIFA world rankings.[2] The team has twice won the FIFA World Cup, in 1978 and 1986. Argentina has won the Copa América 14 times, a record shared with Uruguay, won the Confederations Cup in 1992 and the Olympic Football Tournament in 2004 and 2008.
Argentina and France are the only national teams which have won the three most important men's titles recognized by FIFA: the World Cup, the Confederations Cup, and the Olympic tournament. They have both also won their respective continental championship (Copa América for Argentina, and UEFA European Football Championship for France).
La Selección (The selection), also known as the Albicelestes (Light blue and whites), has appeared in four World Cup finals, including the first final in 1930, which they lost 4–2 toUruguay. Argentina won in their next final in 1978, beating the Netherlands 3–1. Argentina, led by Diego Maradona won again in 1986, a 3–2 victory over West Germany. Their most recent World Cup final was in 1990, which they lost 1–0 to Germany by a much disputed penalty. Argentina's World Cup winning managers are César Luis Menotti in 1978, and Carlos Bilardo in 1986.
Argentina has been very successful in the Copa América, winning it fourteen times and also winning the 'extra' South American Championships in 1941, 1945 and 1946. The team also won the FIFA Confederations Cup and the Kirin Cup, both in 1992, and an Argentine team (with only three players of over 23 years of age included in the squad) won the Olympics football tournaments in Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008.[5]
Argentina also won six of the fourteen football competitions at the Pan American Games, winning in 1951, 1955, 1959, 1971, 1995 and 2003.
[edit]World Cup 2006
Argentina had been eliminated at the group stage at Korea/Japan 2002 FIFA World Cup, although they had been among the pre-tournament favorites. There was a high expectation of a better performance in the Germany 2006.
Argentina qualified for the knockout stages with wins over Ivory Coast (2–1) and Serbia and Montenegro (6–0), and a 0–0 draw with the Netherlands.
In the round of sixteen, Argentina defeated Mexico 2–1 in extra-time, the winning goal by Maxi Rodríguez winning an online poll organized by FIFA, as the best goal of the World Cup [1]. In the quarter final, they lost 4–2 in a penalty shootout against hosts Germany after a 1–1 draw. A brawl erupted between the Argentines and Germans after the game ended. Unused substituteLeandro Cufré was sent off for kicking Per Mertesacker, while Maxi Rodríguez hit Bastian Schweinsteiger from behind. Following an investigation of video evidence, FIFA doled out 4-game and 2-game suspensions for Cufre and Rodriguez, respectively. Germany's Torsten Frings was suspended for the semifinal match for punching Julio Ricardo Cruz.
Shortly after the elimination, coach José Pekerman resigned from his position. AFA appointed Alfio Basile, who had previously managed the national side during the 1994 FIFA World Cup.
[edit]Copa América 2007
Captain Your Country Mode ft. Argentina's Diego Maradona (2010 FIFA World Cup) Sports
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Friday, May 28, 2010
List of qualified teams
List of qualified teams
The following 32 teams qualified for the final tournament.
AFC (4)
* Australia
* Japan
* Korea DPR
* Korea Republic
CAF (6)
* Algeria
* Cameroon
* Côte d'Ivoire
* Ghana
* Nigeria
* South Africa (hosts)
CONCACAF (3)
* Honduras
* Mexico
* United States
CONMEBOL (5)
* Argentina
* Brazil
* Chile
* Paraguay
* Uruguay
OFC (1)
* New Zealand
UEFA (13)
* Denmark
* England
* France
* Germany
* Greece
* Italy
* Netherlands
* Portugal
* Serbia
* Slovakia
* Slovenia
* Spain
* Switzerland
Countries qualified for World Cup Country failed to qualify Countries which did not enter World Cup Country not a FIFA member
This is the first World Cup that does not include any teams that are qualifying for the first time, although two of the qualifiers (Slovakia and Serbia) have previously appeared only as parts of former competing nations. Slovakia was previously part of Czechoslovakia, and Serbia has competed as part of Yugoslavia and Serbia and Montenegro. In both cases FIFA considers these teams to have retained the earlier nations' records.
Controversy surrounded final qualification matches played between France and the Republic of Ireland, Costa Rica and Uruguay and Egypt and Algeria in November 2009.
Search Wikinews Wikinews has related news: Ireland requests replay of FIFA World Cup play-off with France
Search Wikinews Wikinews has related news: FIFA to make changes after Thierry Henry handball
In the second leg of the play-off between France and the Republic of Ireland, French captain Thierry Henry, unseen by the referee, illegally handled the ball in the lead up to the winning goal, which saw France make the final 32 teams ahead of Ireland. The incident caused widespread debate on how matches should be refereed at the highest level. FIFA rejected a request from the Football Association of Ireland to replay the match, [6] whilst a widely reported later request by Ireland to be included as an unprecedented 33rd World Cup entrant was later withdrawn.[7][8] Costa Rica complained over Uruguay's winning goal in the CONMEBOL–CONCACAF playoff, [9] whilst Egypt and Algeria's final match was surrounded by reports of crowd trouble.
In response to the incidents during qualification, and to a match fixing controversy, on 2 December 2009 FIFA called for an extraordinary general meeting of their Executive Committee. After the meeting, FIFA announced that they would be setting up an inquiry into technology and extra officials in the game, but they did not announce the widely-expected move of fast-tracking the introduction of goal-line referee's assistants, already being trialled in the Europa League, and instead restated that the competition in South Africa would be officiated as before, with just one referee, two assistants, and a fourth official.[10] On the subject of fair play, FIFA President Sepp Blatter said:
I appeal to all the players and coaches to observe this fair play. In 2010 we want to prove that football is more than just kicking a ball but has social and cultural value...So we ask the players 'please observe fair play' so they will be an example to the rest of the world.
—FIFA President Sepp Blatter, [11]
The following 32 teams qualified for the final tournament.
AFC (4)
* Australia
* Japan
* Korea DPR
* Korea Republic
CAF (6)
* Algeria
* Cameroon
* Côte d'Ivoire
* Ghana
* Nigeria
* South Africa (hosts)
CONCACAF (3)
* Honduras
* Mexico
* United States
CONMEBOL (5)
* Argentina
* Brazil
* Chile
* Paraguay
* Uruguay
OFC (1)
* New Zealand
UEFA (13)
* Denmark
* England
* France
* Germany
* Greece
* Italy
* Netherlands
* Portugal
* Serbia
* Slovakia
* Slovenia
* Spain
* Switzerland
Countries qualified for World Cup Country failed to qualify Countries which did not enter World Cup Country not a FIFA member
This is the first World Cup that does not include any teams that are qualifying for the first time, although two of the qualifiers (Slovakia and Serbia) have previously appeared only as parts of former competing nations. Slovakia was previously part of Czechoslovakia, and Serbia has competed as part of Yugoslavia and Serbia and Montenegro. In both cases FIFA considers these teams to have retained the earlier nations' records.
Controversy surrounded final qualification matches played between France and the Republic of Ireland, Costa Rica and Uruguay and Egypt and Algeria in November 2009.
Search Wikinews Wikinews has related news: Ireland requests replay of FIFA World Cup play-off with France
Search Wikinews Wikinews has related news: FIFA to make changes after Thierry Henry handball
In the second leg of the play-off between France and the Republic of Ireland, French captain Thierry Henry, unseen by the referee, illegally handled the ball in the lead up to the winning goal, which saw France make the final 32 teams ahead of Ireland. The incident caused widespread debate on how matches should be refereed at the highest level. FIFA rejected a request from the Football Association of Ireland to replay the match, [6] whilst a widely reported later request by Ireland to be included as an unprecedented 33rd World Cup entrant was later withdrawn.[7][8] Costa Rica complained over Uruguay's winning goal in the CONMEBOL–CONCACAF playoff, [9] whilst Egypt and Algeria's final match was surrounded by reports of crowd trouble.
In response to the incidents during qualification, and to a match fixing controversy, on 2 December 2009 FIFA called for an extraordinary general meeting of their Executive Committee. After the meeting, FIFA announced that they would be setting up an inquiry into technology and extra officials in the game, but they did not announce the widely-expected move of fast-tracking the introduction of goal-line referee's assistants, already being trialled in the Europa League, and instead restated that the competition in South Africa would be officiated as before, with just one referee, two assistants, and a fourth official.[10] On the subject of fair play, FIFA President Sepp Blatter said:
I appeal to all the players and coaches to observe this fair play. In 2010 we want to prove that football is more than just kicking a ball but has social and cultural value...So we ask the players 'please observe fair play' so they will be an example to the rest of the world.
—FIFA President Sepp Blatter, [11]
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