The final World Cup list
The final World Cup list
Posted: 2009-11-19 07:58
Qualification for the 2010 World Cup is officially over. Play-offs won, tears shed, hearts broken and dreams renewed, it’s all over.
After Uruguay withstood the Costa Rican pressure late in the evening, the final 32 teams were written into stone – though not without a fair bit of controversy.
And perhaps what’s a bit special about next year’s event is South Africa is that this list of 32 includes every single World Cup winner in the history of the event, thanks to the Uruguayan victory yesterday.
This list (with asterisks denoting previous World Cup victories) is:
Algeria
Argentina**
Australia
Brazil*****
Cameroon
Chile
Denmark
England*
France*
Germany***
Ghana
Greece
Honduras
Italy****
Ivory Coast
Japan
Mexico
Netherlands
North Korea
New Zealand
Nigeria
Paraguay
Portugal
Serbia
Slovakia
Slovenia
South Africa
South Korea
Spain
Switzerland
United States
Uruguay**



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