Having just put together their best ever qualification campaign, Paraguay are entitled to think big ahead of their fourth consecutive appearance at the FIFA World Cup™ finals. Under the guidance of Argentinian coach Gerardo Martino, the current Albirroja crop look to have what it takes to build on the progress made by their predecessors at France 1998 […]
Being the defending Champions of the World Cup, many will be thinking of Italy as a favourite to win the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa. The only country along with Brazil to have won the tournament twice in succession, Marcello Lippi’s team will be vying to match the performance of their pioneering predecessors […]
The 2002 World Cup hosts are one of the major foot balling strong houses in Asia. Boasting one of the strongest squads in Asian football, Japan, winners of three of the last five editions of the AFC Asian Cup, have high hopes for the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa™ – their fourth appearance […]
The Indomitable Lions as the Cameroon national football team is called are one of Africa’s perennial representatives in the World Cup. Though their light may have faded somewhat since they brightened up the world stage at the 1990 FIFA World Cup™, Cameroon are not a side to underestimate at the 2010 FIFA World Cup […]
The final or bust. The Oranje have set lofty aims for their campaign in South Africa, 32 years after their 3-1 extra-time defeat by Argentina in the showpiece game, which itself came four years on from their 2-1 final loss to West Germany. Since the retirement of pioneering coach Rinus Michels, a multitude of players […]
After a six-year absence, Danish Dynamite is once again set to explode on the elite world footballing scene. The Scandinavians missed out on both the 2006 FIFA World Cup™ in Germany and UEFA EURO 2008 in Austria and Switzerland, but the FIFA founder members blazed an impressive trail en route to a berth in South […]
The Germans are one of the favorites at the 2010 FIFA World Cup not just because of their history having won the world three times but because of their consistent good team. Germany will open their campaign in Durban against Australia on 13 June. They will then travel to Nelson Mandela Bay/ Port Elizabeth […]
The Australia football team is not one to wear the favourites tag by any means but that does not mean anyone should write off the Socceroos who impressed in a 14-match Asian qualification campaign overcoming some of the continents best to finish top of Group 1 and be one of the first nations to reach […]
This is the first time this team is appearing at World Cup as Serbia and they should be hungry to make a good record for their new country name after breaking away from Yugoslavia and Serbia and Montenegro. Serbia played their maiden international, independently, on 16 August 2006, winning 3-1 away to Czech Republic. […]
Ghana has for long had a promising squad and many consider it a team with potential but they are yet to show what they can achieve at the big stage. Ghana appearing at the World Cup for the second time have won four CAF African Cup of Nations titles, though none since 1982, as well […]