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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.
The 2010 FIFA World Cup was the 19th edition of the FIFA World Cup, FIFA's football competition for national teams, held between 11 June and 11 July 2010 in South Africa. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] South Africa qualified for the finals automatically as tournament hosts, while 205 teams competed for the remaining 31 spots through qualifying rounds organised by ...
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 .
The knockout stage of the 2010 FIFA World Cup was the second and final stage of the World Cup, following the group stage. It began on 26 June with the round of 16 matches, and ended on 11 July with the final match of the tournament held at Soccer City, Johannesburg, in which Spain beat the Netherlands 1–0 after extra time to claim their first World Cup.
Group G of the 2010 FIFA World Cup began on 15 June and ended on 25 June 2010. [1] The group consisted of reigning Copa América champion Brazil , North Korea , the Ivory Coast and Portugal . Brazil and Portugal were also drawn in the same group at the 1966 FIFA World Cup , their previous official World Cup match.
The 2010 World Cup is off to an exciting start, with a couple of upsets, plenty of stunt dives, and the now-iconic background buzz drone of the vuvuzela (now Twittering too).
2010 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2010th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 10th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 1st year of the 2010s decade.
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 ...