Showing posts with label FIFA World cup 2014. Show all posts
Showing posts with label FIFA World cup 2014. Show all posts

Sunday, 9 September 2012

2 Argentina's Di Maria, Higuain and Messi sink Paraguay 3-1 in South American - CONMEBOL World cup 2014 qualifies

Angel Di Maria score the opener with well taken kick just outside penalty box after good combination with Messi and Higuain. Paraguay’s consolation goal came through after penalty kick by midfielder Jonathan Fabbro after hand ball by Rodrigo Bran. Di Maria goal was followed by another Real Madrid players goals, Higuain who displayed fantastic finishing ability. Lionel Messi score the third goal with a well taken free-kick, the goal which adds to his recent good performance for the Argentina national team. Messi has rose his goals tallies to 28 for national team, 10 in the last 6 matches.  

Lionel Messi celebrate after scoring third goal for Argentina against Paraguay. Photo by REUTERS
Argentina topped the CONMEBOL group for FIFA world cup 2014 with 12 points after 6 matches, one point ahead of Chile and Ecuador, two more than Uruguay and 3 more than Colombia.
Argentina vs Paraguay goals summary
Ángel Di María - Argentina (2')  1-0   
Jonathan Fabbro - Paraguay (penalty 17')  1-1
Gonzalo Higuaín - Argentina (30')  2-1   
Lionel Messi - Argentina (63')  3-1


South American world cup 2014 qualifies: Argentina vs Paraguay video highlight of all goals  

Video by ShivDes357

CONMEBOL
No National P GD Pts
1 Argentina 6 9 13
2 Chile 6 1 12
3 Ecuador 6 1 12
4 Uruguay 6 4 11
5 Colombia 6 4 10
6 Venezuela 7 -3 8
7 Peru 6 -4 6
8 Bolivia 7 -5 4
9 Paraguay 6 -7 4

1st , 2nd , 3rd , 4th - Qualifies for World Cup
5th - Play-off with a nation from Asia

Sunday, 31 July 2011

0 FIFA World Cup qualification draws for 2014 in Brazil

The FIFA 2014 World Cup has been scheduled to feature 32 national teams from FIFA six continental confederations. Only the host, The 5 times world cup champions, Brazil will be allowed to participate in world cup finals without competing in qualification draw.. Spain, World cup and European Champions will join other 30 national teams in competing for their place in World cup finals.
The preliminary draw of the 2014 FIFA World Cup draw was made on 30 July 2011 at the Marina da Glória in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The 32 world cup place distribution
1. Europe (UEFA): 13 places
2. Africa (CAF): 5 places
3. Asia (AFC): 4 or 5 places
4. South America (CONMEBOL) 4 or 5 places (Brazil host)
5. North, Central American and Caribbean (CONCACAF): 3 or 4 places
6. Oceania (OFC): 0 or 1 place

2014 FIFA World Cup qualification for European zone-UEFA

The road to 2014 world cup for European zone teams will kick off on August 2012 after the Euro 2012. 53 national teams will compete for 13 allocated places for this zone. 9 group winners will automatically enter the world cup finals and eight best runners-up will face play-off for the remaining 4 places.

France recent poor performance pushed them to 15 in FIFA World Rankings world wide and have been drawn with World cup champions, Spain. In the last world cup play-off, France won a controversial play-off win over Ireland to qualify for the 2010 World cup inals in South Africa. France coach Laurent Blanc speaking to French FA's website, he said "At least we won't receive the tag of favourites with the world champions and European champions in our group. It's extremely exciting to compete with the best. It's through such matches that we can improve.''
''It'd be a lie to say that we're in an easy group. But we will focus on our task and France will take its chances as usual.
''Spain will definitely be our toughest opponent in the group. But I have confidence in our team and the goal will be to advance in first place.''

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