Some of you may be wondering how the teams in Asia are determined for the FIFA World Cup.
Well, Asia (AFC) had preliminary rounds as a qualifying tournament which narrowed the teams down from 42 to 20, and are then split into 5 groups of 4. Winners and runners-up moved on, and these 10 teams are then put into 2 groups of 5. The winner and runner-up of each group qualifies, with the two 3rd placed teams played a playoff against each other. The winner of this game then gone into a playoff with the 1st placed OFC team.

Teams that qualified for 2010 World Cup: Australia, Japan, Korea Republic, Korea DPR

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Africa (CAF) had a preliminary round to cut the teamcount to 48, then 12 groups of 4. 12 winners and 8 best runners-up divided into 5 groups of 4, the winners of these groups qualified for the final rounds of FIFA World Cup 2010.

Teams that qualified for 2010 FIFA World Cup: Cameroon, Nigeria, Algeria, Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire.

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Only the host team South Africa automatically qualified for the final 2010 FIFA World Cup tournament. All other teams played a series of qualifying tournaments. The qualification tournaments were organized by six FIFA Confederations – AFC (Asia), CAF (Africa), CONCACAF (North America), CONMEBOL (South America), OFC (Oceania), and UEFA (Europe).

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Here are some stats on the 2006 FIFA World Cup: Germany to give you guys an idea of what 2010 FIFA World Cup: South Africa might be like.

I predict Italy will have a good year again and take the cup again this time around!

Teams: 32
When: 09 June 2006 to 09 July 2006
Final: 09 July 2006
Matches: 64
Goals Scored: 147 (average 2.3 per match)
Attendance: 3359439 (average 52491)

Winner: Italy
Runners-Up: France
Third: Germany
Fourth: Portugal

Adidas Golden Ball: Zinedine Zidane (FRA)
Adidas Golden Shoe: Miroslav Klose (GER)

Yashin Award for the Best Goalkeeper: Gianluigi Buffon (ITA)
Best Young Player Award: Lukas Podolski (GER)
FIFA Fair Play award: Spain, Brazil

FIFA Award for the Most Entertaining Team: Portugal

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