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The 2010 FIFA World Cup was an international football tournament held in South Africa from 11 June until 11 July 2010. The 32 national teams involved in the tournament were required to register a squad of 23 players; only players in these squads were eligible to take part in the tournament. Before announcing their final squad for the tournament ...
The teams were decided by World Cup draw that took place on 4 December 2009. [1] The group was set to receive one team from each pot, which sorted all World Cup teams by position on the FIFA World Rankings as of October 2009. [2] The first team drawn was England, which secured qualification as a pot one team by winning Group 6 of UEFA ...
The 2010 FIFA World Cup was the 19th FIFA World Cup, the world championship for men's national football teams. It took place in South Africa from 11 June to 11 July 2010. The bidding process for hosting the tournament finals was open only to African nations.
Group A of the 2010 FIFA World Cup began on 11 June and ended on 22 June 2010. [1] The group consisted of host nation South Africa , Mexico , Uruguay and the runners-up from 2006, France . France and South Africa previously met at the 1998 FIFA World Cup , when then-hosts France beat South Africa 3–0.
A provisional 30-man England squad for the 2010 World Cup was announced on 11 May 2010. [4] This was then reduced to the official 23-man squad, announced on 1 June 2010. [5] The seven players dropped from the provisional squad were Leighton Baines, Darren Bent, Michael Dawson, Tom Huddlestone, Adam Johnson, Scott Parker and Theo Walcott. [5]
Group D of the 2010 FIFA World Cup began on 13 June and ended on 23 June 2010. [1] The group consisted of Germany , Australia , Serbia and Ghana . Along with Group G , it was considered to be a group of death .
Group B of the 2010 FIFA World Cup began on 12 June and ended on 22 June 2010. [1] The group consisted of Argentina , Nigeria , South Korea and Greece . It was the third time that Argentina and Nigeria had been drawn together in the same World Cup group, after 1994 (when Greece were also in the same group) and 2002 .
Brazil and Portugal were also drawn in the same group at the 1966 FIFA World Cup, their previous official World Cup match. In 1966, the Portuguese team defeated Brazil 3–1, thus eliminating the defending champions, to advance to the quarter-finals where they encountered and defeated North Korea (another team in Group G) 5–3 after trailing 0 ...