Could CONMEBOL live with 5 guaranteed places if there were 12 nations instead of 10?

can not play with geography!

is only 10 nations (guyana and suriman do not have a federation that runs a national team)

we need and deserve 4.5 spots

the spot everyone cries for should be a playoff with a team from concacaf/ oceania/ africa & asia IMHO

 

I never understood how Oceania deserves a spot if the can't evem baeta 5th best team in the COnmebol. That means their trip to the WC is pointless.

 

its all about the money making, if they include at least one from Oceania, then from that part of the world they will go to the WC.

 

tomorrow the rulers of conmebol will sort it out in paris.... eugenio Figereido, vice-president, claims to retain the 1/2 spot

the 36 teams may not have legs, but the australian federation was absorbed by the Ministry of sports, and FIFA does not allow governmet involvement in futbol matters. Meaning that oceania will lose direct qualification vs. new zeland or Soma (joke)

the worse case will be a to fight out the 1/2 spot by playing a home/away games vs the runners up from asia and concacaf..... But, they are confident to get the .5 spot lost to blatter.

 

I don't honestly think that FIFA will make such a radical change to 36 teams simply to appease CONMEBOL. I feel bad about the fact that one of their spots was robbed, but what can you do? I'm sure that they'll get their fifth spot back for the next WC cycle with all the uproar that this situation has created. Remember - just about EVERY World Cup has changed in its format through all of them. Only back in 1994 there were 24 teams instead of today's 32. I have a feeling that FIFA is throwing the Oceana spot their way to see what kind of an impact it will have on developing the market there, but I imagine they'll only give them one free pass and then send that spot back CONMEBOL's way for 2010. Just a feeling - no requests for links, please.

 

sounds like they will not do 36 teams, what conmebol really cares for is the .5 spot lost to concacaf/asia

and they will get in there with one team, to fight for it. Or from oceania.... but at the end conmebol will have the same 4.5, they have the time to think about it, hopefully a decision in principle tomorrow.

 

32 teams for WC2006

and CONMEBOL will play Oceania's best team. So, it won't lose its own .5 spot that had before. But there is compromise that CONMEBOL will not have an additional team when Brasil hosts the Cup.

 

as I expected yesterday.

WE could live with that!

 

Good good, we can live with that.....

 

excellent news!!!

 

Guyana and Surinam do have a national team, but they compete in CONCACAF.

 

whata travesty!

 

LOL

 

Justce is finally served, According to soccernet.com

"The decision led to the furious Oceania delegate storming out of the meeting, after the vote was taken."

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/headlinenews?id=270695&cc=5901

 

the final vote was 22-1

1 is oceania fellow, who are the other 22 voters?

2 per confederation is 10 pts, plus FIFA president and vice president.....who else gets a vote?


Pele, maradona y Beckenbauer?

 

Volvemos a tener 4 cupos y medio en Sudamerica.

Hoy se dio la resolucion de que Sudamerica volvera a tener cuatro cupos y medio para ir al Mundial. En otras palabras, 4 irian directamente, y un 5to, jugaria el repechaje con el ganador de Oceania. Se especula de que la razon para quitarle el cupo directo a Oceania fue el bajo rendimiento que mostro el combinado neo-zelandes durante la Copa Confederaciones, en la cual fueron eliminados en 1era ronda.

Que lastima para Oceania--y por Nueva Zelanada, yo los habia apoyado durante la Copa. Para los sudamericanos es una noticia muy importante.

 

No olvides el Papa, su santidad tambien cuenta....

 

oye y que bronca se levanto el de oceania

ahora dicen que no queieren nada que ver con FIFA, a pesar de que blatter bajo la mesa ofrecio un cuadrangular, con los 2 del repechaje asia/concacaf y 2 de oceania.....


que presiones tan grandes pudo conMebol poner a los de europa para que votaran tan abrumadoramente?

 

Now Chile can at least dream about going to the WC

 

despues de copa Oro, te dire si estamos tan necesitados como chile!

pregunta: cuando llege copa america, uds creen que usaremos el mismo equipo que en las eliminatorias? 2/ cuantos partidos llevaremos entre todos, cuando llege copa america?

 

Fuimos a las del 98, eramos malos de visita y practicamente inbatibles de local-por lo tanto tu argumento no es valido, y a mi ni me parece chistoso. Y ademas fuimos locales el 62.