Review: World Cup Football 2006
The FIFA World Cup 2006
was organized in Germany from June 9th to July 9th for one month. Due to the great
practice and competition among many countries in the world, all the continents
were represented in that World Cup 2006. So this world cup was considered as
the first record in the history of the football where the countries from all
the continents were selected. Following are the names of the countries that
were competitive and lucky enough to get the pass to World Cup 2006:
Asia: Iran, Japan, South Korea and Saudi
Arabia
Europe: Germany (organizer), Ukraine, England,
Poland, Serbia and Montenegro (Yugoslavia), Croatia, France, Italy, Spain,
Portugal, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Netherlands, Sweden
Africa: Togo, Ghana, Angola, Ivory Coast,
Tunisia
North America and
Caribbean countries: United States of
America, Costa-Rica, Mexico, Trinidad and Tobago.
South America: Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Ecuador
Australia and Oceania: Australia
The qualification round of the very world cup 2006 turned out to
be unbelievable because four new countries from Africa were selected. Cameroon,
the legendary country known as the “African Eagle” which had played
former 5 World Cup football series and had won the match against the 1982 World
Cup winner, Argentina, failed to participate in the world cup. Likewise,
Senegal which had failed the former world cup winner France was unable to enter
the world cup. Similarly, the “African Power House” Nigeria also couldn’t
secure its position in world cup. South Africa is going to organize the World
Cup 2010. But this nation was unable in 2006 to play world cup too.
From Asia, the participants are as like of former world cup ’02.
South Korea, Japan and Saudi Arabia were the former participants. That was 3rd,
7th and 4th participation from Japan, S. Korea and
Saudi Arabia respectively. But China which participated in WC ’02 for the first
time was unable to be selected for WC ’06 though it had not lost the nomination
match. It was due to less point. WC ’06 is the 5th time for Iran.
Czech Republic and Ukraine had represented their nations for the 1st time in WC from Europe. Corresponding
to China, Denmark “Red Devil’” was also eliminated from qualification round due
to less point. Spain, Czech Republic and Switzerland won over Slovakia
Republic, Norway and Turkey in “Play off” respectively to get pass to the WC
’06. Unfortunately, Slovenia which played WC ’02 for the first time lost the
final game against Italy and …. Likewise, Russia Belgium and Ireland were
unable to qualify for WC ’06. Trinidad and Tobago qualified for the first time
in WC from N. America by winning the game against Asian country, Bahrain.
Mexico was the first country to ensure its position for WC’06. USA and Costa
Rica respectively followed it then.
Brazil was able to qualify itself 18 times for all 18 World Cups.
Twice winners and 1o time’s world cup player Uruguay couldn’t qualify for 2006.
Australia won over Uruguay in Play-off and thus Australia represented its
country for 2nd time
in WC.
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