The breakdown in spots for the 32 nation final round is as such:
* Europe (UEFA): 13 places
* Africa (CAF): 5 places (+ South Africa qualified automatically as host nation for a total of 6 places)
* South America (CONMEBOL): 4 or 5 places
* Asia (AFC): 4 or 5 places
* North, Central American and Caribbean (CONCACAF): 3 or 4 places
* Oceania (OFC): 0 or 1 place
The "or" qualifiers are decided with a knockout playoff between OFC and AFC, as well as CONCACAF and CONMEBOL
THE MAPGreen - Team qualified for the World Cup.
Blue - Team may still qualify for the World Cup.
Pink - Team cannot qualify for the World Cup, but still has qualifying matches left.
Red - Team eliminated from World Cup qualifying.
Purple - Country did not enter World Cup.
Grey - Country is not part of FIFA.
CONCACAF
CONCACAF's final round of qualifying kicks off February 11th. Each nation plays each other twice(home and away), the top 3 teams advance. With the 4th going to a playoff with CONMEBOL's 5 ranked nation.
[HTML]Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
United States 10 6 2 2 19 13 +6 20
Mexico 10 6 1 3 18 12 +6 19
Honduras 10 5 1 4 17 11 +6 16
Costa Rica 10 5 1 4 15 15 0 16
El Salvador 10 2 2 6 9 15 -6 8
T&T 10 1 3 6 10 22 -12 6
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CONMEBOL
CONMEBOL's qualifying is done as one big group with each nation playing each other twice(home and away). The top 4 nations automatically qualify. With the 5th place nation entering a playoff with CONCACAF's 4th ranked nation.
[HTML]Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
Brazil 18 9 7 2 33 11 +22 34
Chile 18 10 3 5 32 22 +10 33
Paraguay 18 10 3 5 24 16 +9 33
Argentina 18 8 4 6 23 20 +3 28
Uruguay 18 6 6 6 28 20 +8 24
Ecuador 18 6 5 7 22 26 ?4 23
Colombia 18 6 5 7 14 18 ?4 23
Venezuela 18 6 4 8 23 29 ?6 22
Bolivia 18 4 3 11 22 36 ?14 15
Peru 18 3 4 11 11 34 ?23 13[/HTML]
AFC
Asia's final round of qualifying has two groups. The top two nations from each group automatically qualify, with the two 3rd ranked nations from each group competing in a playoff with each other. The winner of the playoff then has to enter into a playoff with the winning nation of the OFC. Groups are home and away match based.
Group 1
[HTML]Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
Australia 8 6 2 0 12 1 +11 20
Japan 8 4 3 1 11 6 +5 15
Bahrain 8 3 1 4 6 8 ?2 10
Qatar 8 1 3 4 5 14 ?9 6
Uzbekistan 8 1 1 6 5 10 ?5 4
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Group 2
[HTML]Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
Korea Republic 8 4 4 0 12 4 +8 16
Korea DPR 8 3 3 2 7 5 +2 12
Saudi Arabia 8 3 3 2 8 8 0 12
Iran 8 2 5 1 8 7 +1 11
U.A.E 8 0 1 7 6 17 ?11 1[/HTML]
CAF
Africa's final round of qualifying is split into 5 groups of 4 nations. The top nation in each group will qualify. Groups are home and away match based. Africa also has a nation already qualified, as South Africa is hosting the event(until everyone involved is eventually murdered and it is moved to England or the U.S.).
Group 1
[HTML]Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
Cameroon 5 3 1 1 7 2 +5 10
Gabon 5 3 0 2 9 6 +3 9
Togo 5 1 2 2 2 7 -3 5
Morocco 5 0 3 2 3 6 -3 3
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Group 2
[HTML]Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
Tunisia 5 3 2 0 7 3 +4 11
Nigeria 5 2 3 0 6 2 +4 9
Mozambique 5 1 1 3 2 5 -3 4
Kenya 5 1 0 4 3 8 -5 3
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Group 3
[HTML]Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
Algeria 5 4 1 0 9 2 +7 13
Egypt 5 3 1 1 7 4 +3 10
Zambia 5 1 1 3 2 5 -3 4
Rwanda 5 0 1 4 1 8 -7 1[/HTML]
Group 4
[HTML]Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
Ghana 5 4 0 1 7 1 +7 12
Mali 5 2 2 1 6 5 +1 8
Benin 5 2 1 2 4 5 -1 7
Sudan 5 0 1 4 1 7 -6 1
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Group 5
[HTML]Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
Cote d'Ivoire 5 4 1 0 16 4 +12 13
Burkina Faso 5 3 0 2 9 11 -2 9
Malawi 5 1 1 3 4 10 -6 4
Guinea 5 1 0 4 7 11 -2 3
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UEFA
UEFA's qualifying is split into nine groups. The top nation of each group automatically qualifies, with the top 8 second place nations competing in four playoffs for the final spots. Groups are home and away match based.
Group 1
[HTML]Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
Denmark 10 6 3 1 16 5 +11 21
Portugal 10 5 4 1 17 5 +12 19
Sweden 10 5 3 2 13 5 +6 18
Hungary 10 5 1 4 10 8 +2 16
Albania 10 1 4 5 6 16 -10 7
Malta 10 0 1 9 0 26 ?26 1[/HTML]
Group 2
[HTML]Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
Switzerland 10 6 3 1 18 8 +10 21
Greece 10 6 2 2 20 10 +10 20
Latvia 10 5 2 3 18 15 +3 17
Israel 10 4 4 2 20 10 +10 16
Luxembourg 10 1 2 7 4 25 ?21 5
Moldova 10 0 3 7 6 18 ?12 3[/HTML]
Group 3
[HTML]Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
Slovakia 10 7 1 2 22 10 +12 22
Slovenia 10 6 2 2 18 4 +14 20
N. Ireland 10 4 3 3 13 9 +4 14
Czech Republic 10 4 4 2 17 6 +11 16
Poland 10 3 2 5 19 14 +4 11
San Marino 10 0 0 10 1 47 ?46 0[/HTML]
Group 4
[HTML]Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
Germany 10 8 2 0 26 5 +21 26
Russia 10 7 1 2 19 6 +13 22
Finland 10 5 3 2 14 14 0 14
Wales 10 4 0 6 9 12 -3 12
Liechten. 10 0 2 6 2 19 ?17 2
Azerbaijan 10 0 1 7 1 13 ?12 1[/HTML]
Group 5
[HTML]Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
Spain 10 10 0 0 28 5 +23 30
B&H 10 6 1 3 25 13 +12 19
Turkey 10 4 3 3 13 10 +3 15
Belgium 10 3 1 6 13 20 -7 10
Estonia 10 2 2 6 9 24 ?15 8
Armenia 10 1 1 8 6 22 ?16 4[/HTML]
Group 6
[HTML]Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
England 10 9 0 1 34 6 +28 27
Ukraine 10 6 3 1 23 6 +17 21
Croatia 10 6 2 2 19 13 +6 20
Belarus 10 4 1 5 19 14 +5 13
Kazakhstan 10 2 0 9 11 29 ?18 6
Andorra 10 0 0 10 3 39 ?36 0[/HTML]
Group 7
[HTML]Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
Serbia 10 7 1 2 22 8 +14 22
France 10 6 3 1 18 9 +9 19
Austria 10 4 2 4 14 15 -1 14
Lithuania 10 4 0 6 10 11 -1 12
Romania 10 3 3 4 12 18 -6 12
Faroe Islands 10 1 1 8 5 20 ?15 4[/HTML]
Group 8
[HTML]Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
Italy 10 7 3 0 18 7 +11 24
Rep. of Ireland 10 4 6 0 12 8 +4 18
Bulgaria 10 3 5 2 17 13 +4 14
Cyprus 10 2 3 5 14 16 -2 9
Montenegro 10 1 6 3 9 14 -5 9
Georgia 10 0 3 7 7 19 -12 3
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Group 9
[HTML]Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
Netherlands 8 8 0 0 17 2 +15 24
Norway 8 2 4 2 9 7 +2 10
Scotland 8 3 1 4 6 11 -5 10
FYR Macedonia 8 2 1 5 5 11 -6 7
Iceland 8 1 2 5 7 13 -6 5
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OFC
The OFC was given half a qualifying spot, after a preliminary group, the winner faced off with the 5th placed AFC team
Qualified Nations
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You posted a video of the incident, but I guess you were too busy to watch it. He kicked his foot. His toe didn't barely touch anything, he kicked him. He didn't dive, he was knocked out of his stride because he was running at the time. It was a foul, and therefore a penalty. There's nothing to debate, it's one of the clearest penalties I've ever seen.
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You may as well try to argue that the sun is made of custard. The replay speaks for itself, it was a foul, end of story.
The majority of times I have seen dudes on the ground in these games he has been faking and holding the wrong body part.
I never said it wasn't a foul. I said he wasn't kicked.
At no point in that entire video does a force of impact come from the direction the keeper is sliding, if you actually watched the slow motion angles.
That has nothing to do with anything. If you stick your foot out and trip someone up it's a foul. The rules don't need to be changed just because you can't understand them once every 4 years.
In this case, uhhhhhhhhhhhh...go Mexico?
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You won't really know until you watch the game. Let the hate come naturally, don't force it.
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Unfortunately, I probably won't watch it. It's on at 4.30am here, and unless I want to watch it on tape delay, I am unlikely to see it.
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Thus a red.
Also in general vuvuzelas and South Africans suck so fuck em
Leaving ten minutes early FROM YOUR HOME NATION PLAYING IN THE FUCKIN WORD CUP
Even if he didn't trip him
because that's what happened
the goalie tripped him
goddamn it
mexico will have a few frustrted players and they'll start to play "dirty"
wouldnt surprise me if they take more yellows. (which always shames me)
frankly i'm not cheering for either team as i like them both
ha i know man i'm still pissed about that
i mean goddamit...
you cannot impede a goal from being scored as the last man by fouling the man
you especially cannot do it in the box
how is this a question
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Chile/Spain should be incredible.
That ain't depressing, it's infuriating. Fucking fair weather shit fans just going to games to blow on their stupid fucking noise makers and ruin everything for everyone ever.
He definitely ought to have been warned, although I think it stopped short of being bookable.
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I'll be sure to applaud and remember the name of the first person I see in this year's world cup who doesn't embellish a fall. Assuming it'll happen at least once.
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Even Italy wasn't awful about it (except that bitch de rossi)
I don't really take note of embellishments unless they're excessive.
They only dives I've seen were from germany and Ronaldo.
Because...I like it?
Not many Asians do it either.
It's mostly a Central/South American/European thing.