The Fifa World Cup 2010:

The Fifa world cup 2010 is an international soccer competition marked by the presence of the best 32 national teams, the sequence of the event in South Africa and the delight that this competition is going to bring. This event takes place every four years, and many countries make whatever they can to organize this tournament. The 2010 world cup is going to be the first one organized on African soil. In the past, only thirteen teams participated to the first edition in Uruguay: Seven from South America (Uruguay, Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Chile, Bolivia and Peru), four from Europe (France, Belgium, Romania, and Yugoslavia) and two from North and Central America (USA and Mexico). However, the competition saw a growth with the participation of the British team in 1950, and then fifteen teams joined the competition between 1934 and 1978. The tournament was expended to 32 teams in 1998 during the world cup in France. In this way more teams from Africa, North America, and Asia can took part. “A total of 200 teams have entered the race for one of the 31 places at the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa™. The preliminary phase, which began in the Oceanian Zone back in August 2007, is now in full swing, with only the Host Nation guaranteed a berth in world football's showpiece event” according to a member of the FIFA (Federation International Football Amateur). The qualifications are organized by continent. The country which organizes the event is automatically qualified. In Europe, 53 nations try to get tickets. They are divided in 8 groups of 6 and 1 group of 5. Each team will play 5 matches at home and 5 matches and outdoors. The firsts of each group is directly qualified and the second will be engaged in play-off matches at home and outdoor. Finally the four winners of play-off matches will join the nine qualified to go to the world cup. In South America, a mini-championship is organized with ten 10 teams. Each team will play