What teams will qualify for 2006

[Jay510]

Originally posted by xenaphobia


It's irrelevant what they've done, they are a fully fledged confederation like all the others and it is the WORLD Cup after all which should represent all parts of the WORLD

Asia doesn't want Oceania in it, Australia tried to shut it down and merge into Asia a few years ago and that vote got lost 150 something to 1

20 years ago CONCACAF was virtually a 1 team federation also

The deal to give Oceania their own spot has been done (with Asia's blessing) so deal with it

id like to see some concrete evidence of this so-called deal.....any chance you have a link

[sammydog]

Australia and New Zealand never wanted to have an oceania confederation, but fifa made one anyway.

Australia have tried to have the confederation put back into asia or at least get out of the confederation and into asia themselves. As you can see they never got very far.

There are links slowly being built with asia and oceania. There are talks of including oceania teams in the new asian club championship as well as other tournaments but unfortunately as much as I wish it would happen, oceania will never be put into asia.

[bocatuna]

Germany.

[jamisont]

Originally posted by xenaphobia


It's irrelevant what they've done, they are a fully fledged confederation like all the others and it is the WORLD Cup after all which should represent all parts of the WORLD

Asia doesn't want Oceania in it, Australia tried to shut it down and merge into Asia a few years ago and that vote got lost 150 something to 1

20 years ago CONCACAF was virtually a 1 team federation also

The deal to give Oceania their own spot has been done (with Asia's blessing) so deal with it

its a very fully fledged confederation for sure huh?

[The Modest Bighead]

Argentina - Australia - Austria - Brazil - Canada - Denmark - Egypt - England - France - Germany - Ghana - Greece - Italy - Ivory Coast - Japan - Mexico - Morocco - Netherlands - Norway - Paraguay - Qatar - Romania - Russia - Saudi Arabia - South Africa - South Korea - Spain - Sweden - Turkey - Ukraine - Uruguay - USA

[Crazy_Yank]

Originally posted by xenaphobia



20 years ago CONCACAF was virtually a 1 team federation also




True, but Concacaf wasn't given anything we didn't earn. Teams like the US, CR, Jamaica, and Honduras proved themselves. No one from Oceania besides Australia has done that.

[Doctor Stamen]

England should get there, depending on who's in the group. Ireland and possibly Wales as well. I doubt Scotland will though.

[lanman]

Originally posted by Crazy_Yank



True, but Concacaf wasn't given anything we didn't earn. Teams like the US, CR, Jamaica, and Honduras proved themselves. No one from Oceania besides Australia has done that.

Australia are yet to prove themselves. They recently lost to New Zealand in the Oceania Cup.

[crom80]

Asia

Bhutan
Brunei
Tibet
Singapore


America

Panama
Belize
Haiti



Africa

Somalia
Congo
Madagascar(spelling?)
Swaziland(Spelling)


Europe
Lucsembruke...(spelling... the place between germany and france and belgium)
Vatican
Ciprus
Latvia
Iceland
Moldova
Albania
etc etc

South America

Venezuela
umm what other team sucks over there??


Oceania

Papua New Gunie or something....
Solomon Islands


High scoring games awaits

[Chachi King]

they should have a world cup of the world's worst 32 teams just to give them a taste of international competition. that would be sweet.

i wonder if i can play on the American Samoa team.

[Ilhan Mansiz]

Island!! hehe i'll keep dreaming and praying for them,Maybe one day they will suprise me and the world :)

[FIFA_King]

I'll wait until I see how the big teams perform over the next few years and what groups they are drawn into before I make any decision. However, I can imagine that France, Italy, Holland, Portugal, England, Spain, Brazil, Argentina, USA, Mexico and Japan.

I have a feeling Germany will be there too. ;)

[Awe-Inspiring]

Originally posted by crom80
Europe
Lucsembruke...(spelling... the place between germany and france and belgium)


Try Luxembourg. ;)

[gabe]

costa rica will once again beat Mexico in the Azteca! Costa Rica, USA, Honduras, all 3 three will advance very far

[fademan77]

The game against New Zealand for the Confed cup berth was ludicrous.

There were several reasons why we lost that game:

1. None of our starting-15 players were called up for the match; It was made up of local NSL players who hadn´t played competitive soccer for almost 2 months (it was the off season).

2. Soccer Australia was involved in a legal dispute with their sponsers and if the result in the court went against, Soccer Australia would not have had the money to put up a team.

3. The courts allowed S. Australia to field a team while the legal battle was ongoing. They were given 10 days before the match to call up a squad.

That is not enough time to become match fit, especially when all the players hadn´t kicked a footy in such a long time and most of them were on holidays. Given that, we still only lost 1-0.

Lastly, the deal to give the OFC a berth in the WC is to be decided next month. I wouldn´t be counting chickens till they hatch.

All i have to say is that for the past two attempts to qualify we´ve had a very raw deal. in 98 we didn´t lose a qualifier yet still didn´t qualify, and in 02 we lost one game, getting conditioned by playing spastics like american samoa.

end rant.

[RomaDcUnitedSaoPaulo]

Originally posted by ursula
For Asia: Bhutan
althoug i would like this i doubt it

[thurd]

Originally posted by crom80
Asia

Bhutan
Brunei
Tibet
Singapore


America

Panama
Belize
Haiti



Africa

Somalia
Congo
Madagascar(spelling?)
Swaziland(Spelling)


Europe
Lucsembruke...(spelling... the place between germany and france and belgium)
Vatican
Ciprus
Latvia
Iceland
Moldova
Albania
etc etc

South America

Venezuela
umm what other team sucks over there??


Oceania

Papua New Gunie or something....
Solomon Islands


High scoring games awaits
i dont think island and albania are even that bad as the other teams.

[Zola Magic]

The Ocenia champion will automatically qualify for the World cup, and that will most likely be Australia. You must remember Australia were without Harry Kewll and Mark Viduka when New Zealand beat us (Australia) a few months ago.

[SeinDude]

Originally posted by lanman
They recently lost to New Zealand in the Oceania Cup.

Australia basically played their 2nd side in that match with most of our big name players like Kewell and Viduka unavailable.

We'll be there in 2006... I hope!! :)

SeinDude

[Chachi King]

ASIA

Korea, Japan, Iran, and Saudi Arabia.

Communist China will not have the luxury of not having to play Japan and Korea (Korea, which China has still never beaten in 22 matches) and may find themselves stuck with two superior teams at the very least in qualifying.

There are some other intriguing sides like Iraq, whose youth talent is pretty good, but I'm not placing any bets on their asses after they get bombed around by the U.S. I don't think Thailand is good enough yet, since they really haven't had an "explosion" of sorts since everyone has started tabbing them as the team on the rise.

Some of the Arab states like UAE or Kuwait are at the China level, definitely there, but not quite up to par with the top 4 Asian sides.

On another note, woe be the Taiwanese team, who is not allowed to play any friendly matches with other nations because their thug Goliath to the west threatens economic sanctions against anyone who tries to play a freaking SPORT with Taiwan.