how teams qualify to the FIFA world cup

FIFA which is the organ that regulates soccer worldwide, has a system of 5 different confederations that regulate how the countries within that are qualify. This confederations are: AFC (Asian Football Confederation), CAF (Confederation of African football), CONCACAF( Confederation of North, Central America, and Caribbean Association Football), OFC( Oceania Football Confederation),CONMEBOL( Confederacion Sudamericana de Futbol) and the UEFA(Union of European Football Associations).

they all have different rules of how to qualify to the world cup. The UEFA is the biggest football confederation and 13 of its members national teams are qualified to the world cup. 6 members of the CAF are qualified to the world cup. 5 members of the CONMEBOL are going to be in South Africa this year. 4 members of the AFC are attending this event. 3 of the CONCACAF are also qualified to the world cup, and the last one is the OFC with just one member qualified.

FIFA World cup

It is an international Football(soccer) cup played by men's national teams that are members of Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the sport's global governing body. It happens every 4 years in different parts of the world. This year South Africa was awarded as the host country for the cup. 32 team are going to play for around a month this summer. These teams had to play a qualification phase against countries in the same area ,and the best in the area are the ones that go to the world cup. The world cup started in 1930 in Uruguay as a small tournament and is now is by far the most viewed sporting event in the world. In my next post I am going to explain how countries qualify to this event.

El clasico

Last weekend I was able to watch the Clasico online. The clasico is probably one of the best rivalries in sports. Barcelona and Real Madrid are the 2 teams in the clasico. They play el clasico twice a year. What make this rivalry so unique, is that Barcelona is the capital of Catalunya. It is an spanish province that has some peaceful independent movements going on. They claim that they don't share many cultural features with spanish people, they even have their own language (catalan). While Real Madrid represents the spanish capitol. They also represent spanish pride in this kind of game. They played in Santiago Bernabeu Stadium. The game was sold out. 90,000 people were able to get tickets to this game. This time (unfortunately) Barcelona won 0-2. I have to admit that their football (soccer) style right now is just amazing. Hopefully Real Madrid is able to catch up before the end of the season

Outside sources:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.html?curid=9977483, www.as.com

which one is the best

which one is the best

which of these to players you think is the best in the world? Cristiano Ronaldo, or Lionel messi. If you know nothing about soccer let me give you some info about these 2 players. Cristiano Ronaldo is from portugal. He plays for the spanish team Real Madrid. Leonel Messi was born in Argentina. He plays for the spanish team Barcelona. These two teams are probably the best rivalry in any sport. I know many of you will say that Red Sox-yankees is the best rivalry in any sport , but if you ever have the chance of going to a Real Madrid-Barcelona I am sure you would change your mind. In these 2 videos you can watch the best 10 goals of both players this season.

Bad injuries

this weekend Aaron Ramsey got one of the worst injures in the history of british soccer. He suffered a double fracture in his right leg after a tackle from Ryan Shawcross Ramsey was stretchered off the field into an ambulance and hospitalized, where he was confirmed to have broken his tibia and fibula. The player that did this to him got a red card, and left the field crying