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The 2010 FIFA World Cup will be the 19th FIFA World Cup, the premier international football tournament. It is scheduled to take place between 11 June and 11 July 2010 in South Africa. The 2010 FIFA World Cup will be the culmination of a qualification process that began in August 2007 and involved 204 of the 208 FIFA national teams. As such, it matches the 2008 Summer Olympics as the sports event with the most competing nations.
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This will be the first time that the tournament has been hosted by an African nation, after South Africa beat Morocco and Egypt in an all-African bidding process. This decision left the Oceania Football Confederation as the only confederation yet to host the FIFA World Cup. Italy are the defending champions. The draw for the finals took place on 4 December 2009 in Cape Town.

Group Fixtures

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Knockout Stages

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I am really looking forward to this summers tournament for a number of reasons. For once, England really do have a manager and a squad who can challenge for the World Cup.

In terms of outsiders then the good money seems to be Ivory Coast. Who will win ???
 
One of the usual suspects will win, Brazil, Italy, Germany etc, the teams that always knock it up another gear when its a world cup. Spain maybe if they stay confident.

As for England, we will do great in the groups, which will have the media screaming that we are going to win, then we will go straight out the moment we have to play a team in the top 10th.
 
i cant see past brazil,

cesar, alves, juan, lucio, luisao, maicon, marcelo, kaka, ronaldhino, diego, robhino, fabiano, pato, adriano and nilmar

the only thing they lack is a decent defensive mid, melo and silva have both been poor of late, i would maybe stick lucio in that position and have luisao and juan as centre back's. ramires seems to be a good newcomer so maybe he could adapt to defensive mid, but i dont rate him that highly.
 
we will have seperate threads for each group and each round, these will be posted about a week in advance
 
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Jamie Carragher set to be recalled to England Squad
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/world_cup_2010/8673706.stm

I got to say as a defender he has been a consistent performer for Liverpool what I have seen of him over this season. I think what has contributed to that is his self imposed abscence from the England set up. A good addition if you ask me
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Had a very shaky start to the season, but I'm fine with him going - far more reliable than Lescott or Upson, and Dawson is a little inexperienced for me.
 
Your 30 man England Squad

As above. Who would be in your preliminary 30 man squad announced today?

My squad;

GK: James, Green, Hart, Harper

DF: A.Cole,Konchensky, G.Johnson, Jagielka, Terry, Ferdinand, King, Dawson, Carragher

MF: Lennon, Walcott, A.Johnson, J.Cole, Young, Lampard, Gerrard, Hargreaves, Milner, Wilshire

ST: Rooney, Defoe, Abonglahor, Zamora, Crouch, Heskey, Bent


That's mine thought not particularly sure who I would cut out to get it down to 23 man
 
GK: James, Green, Hart, Harper

DF: A.Cole,Konchensky, G.Johnson, Jagielka, Terry, Ferdinand, Sol, Dawson, Lescott

MF: Lennon, Parker, A.Johnson, J.Cole, Young, Lampard, Gerrard, Hargreaves, Milner, Wilshire

ST: Rooney, Defoe, Abonglahor, Zamora, Crouch, Cole, Bent.

Honestly though, a 30man squad is silly, theres players I don't want in there and wouldn't take to the world cup but frankly, I can't think of anyone else to put in, in the 23 man squad, you'd get a much more telling team to be honest. Sol over King because its completely pointless taking a guy who can't play games in such a short space of time, taking someone who essentially you know will get injured and unable to play is ridiculous. Play king till his knee's give out, you want consistancy and the team with the best chance of playing all games, staying together, getting used to playing together and picking up form towards the end of the competition.

GK: James, Green, Hart,

DF: A.Cole,Konchensky, G.Johnson, Jagielka, Terry, Ferdinand, Young, Dawson,

MF: Lennon, Parker, A.Johnson, Young, Lampard, Hargreaves, Milner

ST: Rooney, Defoe, Abonglahor, Zamora, Bent.

Meh, I'm having name block issues going on, I really would prefer to take a better starting right back than Johnson, and another DM over Hargreaves(due to fitness) but can't think of any.

EDIT:- Starting 11 is even more interesting

GK: Hart

DF: A.Cole, Terry, Ferdinand Jagielka,

MF: Young, Parker, Lampard, Milner

ST: Rooney, gabby/Zamore

Gabby/Zamora as the more withdrawn striker/willing runner with Rooney the furthest forward. Jagielka at right back, he's played there, he's FAR more solid defensively than Johnson, whose too weak going forwards and leaves FAR to many gaps as he runs back. Parker as DM, Lampard in his role for Chelsea. Parkers not the same player as he was at Chelsea, he was more like Lampard running forwards lots, now he's more of a midfield battler who defends brilliantly. We need someone like him to release Lampard to get forward, there is NO better midfielder for scoring than him.
 
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James, Green, Hart

A Cole, G Johnson, Terry, Ferdinand, King, Dawson, Jagielka, Upson, Brown

Lennon, Walcott, Gerrard, Lampard, Young, A Johnson, Milner, Carrick, Huddlestone, J Cole, Hargreaves, Barry

Rooney, Crouch, Defoe, Zamora, Bent, Agbonglahor

I'd pick Barry & Hargreaves solely on the basis to prove their fitness to even be slightly considered for the final 23.
 
Wilshire should be nowhere near that training camp! We don't want another Walcott debacle...
And No1newts, your only defensive minded midfielders are Hargreaves, (and at a stretch Jagielka)?! You need someone fit and not-injury prone in that position.

well I think when Fabio announces his squad there'll be plenty of people who are surprised by omissions, I've been reading that Joe Cole is set to miss out, which I find particularly strange, he was one of our best players under McLaren...

As for my 30:

3Gk Hart, Green, James
2RB Johnson, Carragher
2LB A Cole, ???????
5CB Ferdinand, Terry, Dawson, King, Upson
6CMF Lampard, Gerrard, ???????, ??????? (two from Parker, Carrick, Huddlestone, Barry)
6AMF Walcott, J Cole, Milner, Lennon, Wright-Phillips, Young, Johnson
6CF Rooney, Defoe, Crouch, C Cole, Heskey, Bent

My Final 23 are in bold
My First XI are in Bold & Italic

to explain the two ???????s well I have no idea who to take for the backup LB, I thought Lescott initially, but he's been injured most of the season, so perhaps Baines, he's been solid for Everton, or maybe Warnock. Such a shame Bridge retired from the international scene...

As for the CMF ??????? well I have no idea! Undoubtedly Fabio's toughest headache here... Barry's injury is a terrible blow, and I don't see Fabio taking him if he's carrying a knock, even though he was magnificent in the qualies. I don't think Fabio fancies Parker either, despite his good season, so that rules him out.

We don't exactly have many options there, worryingly: Hargreaves is a great player but has barely played for the best part of 2 years! Huddlestone is a talented boy, but he has no pace, and he's more a deep-lying playmaker than a ball-winning midfielder, which is what we need.
Carrick fell out of favour towards the end of united's season.
Trying to wrack my brain, I thought maybe Cattermole as a wild-card? His partnership with Cana impressed early in the season, and Sunderland struggled when he was injured. But he is totally unproven. God knows!
 
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Rumour has it that scholes is in line for a return to the squad.. I'd like to see it, i think he'd have a role to play as an impact player if needed. He's got the experience and the quality that the younger players don't have.

As for goonerfans ?????'s. Left back i'd say take warnock, he's a little bit more experienced than baines and has played awesome since his move to blackburn. (In addition Milner provides good cover as a LB)

CM's. The four i would take would be: Gerrard, Lampard, Milner and Scholes. Out of those i would start with Lampard and Milner. To me he's done that good a job in there for villa it's hard to imagine the impact barry had there. I'd have even picked him there if barry was fit. Gerrard seems to have gone off it a bit and would use him and scholes as game changers.

WINGERS: I would take, Lennon, J Cole, Walcott, Johnson. I'd give Johnson the spot as he's played more regularly than SWP and if im honest he's better and not many people will know about him. Plus he's an out and out left winger, something Eng have been needing for years.

STRIKERS: Rooney, Crouch, Bent, Defoe. Enough said. Heskey hasnt played enough this year for me and even then he's not an impact player that will get you a goal.

Others to consider that i don't think have been mentioned.

Downing? Cambell?

EDIT: Forgot to mention, my starting line up would be:

GK: Hart
DEF: Johnson, Ferdinand, Terry, Cole
MID: Lennon (RW) Lampard (RCM) Milner (CM) Gerrard (LCM) J Cole (LW)
STR: Rooney

In effecting using SAF's preferred formation this year.
 
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Fabio Capello names his provisional 30-man squad for the World Cup:

Goalkeepers

Joe Hart, David James, Robert Green

Defenders

Leighton Baines, Jamie Carragher, Ashley Cole, Michael Dawson, Rio Ferdinand, Glen Johnson, Ledley King, John Terry, Matthew Upson, Stephen Warnock

Midfielders

Gareth Barry, Michael Carrick, Joe Cole, Steven Gerrard, Tom Huddlestone, Adam Johnson, Frank Lampard, Aaron Lennon, James Milner, Scott Parker, Theo Walcott, Shaun Wright-Phillips

Forwards

Darren Bent, Peter Crouch, Jermain Defoe, Emile Heskey, Wayne Rooney

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Heskey and no Zamora :(. Quite a good squad though, although quite a few injury prone defenders!

Shame that Zamora has to have surgery though.
 
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Joe Hart, David James, Robert Green

Leighton Baines, Jamie Carragher, Ashley Cole, Michael Dawson, Rio Ferdinand, Glen Johnson, Ledley King, John Terry, Matthew Upson, Stephen Warnock

Gareth Barry, Michael Carrick, Joe Cole, Steven Gerrard, Tom Huddlestone, Adam Johnson, Frank Lampard, Aaron Lennon, James Milner, Scott Parker, Theo Walcott, Shaun Wright-Phillips

Darren Bent, Peter Crouch, Jermain Defoe, Emile Heskey, Wayne Rooney

30 players named by Capello.
 
I actually agree with his selection, but he's gone back on his word of fitness which has diminished the chances for other relatively fit players to go to South Africa who played well this season.
 
I actually agree with his selection, but he's gone back on his word of fitness which has diminished the chances for other relatively fit players to go to South Africa who played well this season.
 
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