[adoreorerie]

32 years after, yeay!! Aussie is in the soccer world cup! This is soo awesome!!!
My brother and his wife (both Colombian) and all of their friends (all latinamericans) all supported the Uruguayans, but I got aussie in my blod. I am primarily aussie and secondarily colombian, and after such a long suffering of them supporting uruguay, and me going flat out for aussie, I could finally shout in their face: WE'RE IN THE WORLD CUP AND COLOMBIA ISN'T!!!

YEAH HELL IM HYPERACTIVE!!!!
Go Soccerroos!!!
... I said do you speak my language... he just smiled and gave me a vegemite sandwich.... and he said Oh! Do you come from the Land down Under....


Modified by Superfresa at 7:14 AM 11/16/2005

[citalopram]

Im full Aussie, and you seem to have way more Aussie spirit than me! lol, ROCK ON!!! lol

[indocrew]

Congrates dudes!
But it gets kinda boring when you're Portuguese.

[adoreorerie]

Quote, originally posted by Hornbag »Im full Aussie, and you seem to have way more Aussie spirit than me! lol, ROCK ON!!! lol
Hell yeah.
Bring on the Vegemite!
We rock, Aussie is the best

[gydrorway]

Congrats dude! I'm glad Australia made it, but i'm not sure about how important is soccer in Aus.
Tonight we will know if Spain goes to the World Cup or not. Probably will, just to loose in quarter finals as we always do.....spanish national team sucks .
EDIT: to not get a warning, i'll say that I AM from Spain, so i guess i had the right to say that.

[adoreorerie]

Lol... you dont get warned for that lol...
Yeah well soccer aint that important here but Im happy because after this it'll start to be. To be honest the aussie team is pretty crap too but who cares, its just starting!

[Paiblyelaxy]

Congratulations antipodean car dudes.
As a Leeds U fan, I know how good some aussie players can be (though Kewell's gone off since he signed for Liverpool)

[ugosanchezo]

So has england made it in yet or did they crap out again? I don't really follow soccer, so this is a legit question on my part.

[Paiblyelaxy]

England (or for purposes of football supporters' chants; Eng-ger-land!) made it through as top of their qualifying group and now await the seeding decisions for the upcoming World Cup. Hopefully, we'll be seeded (and thus avoid a strong team in the first round), but it depends on previous performances at World Cups and FIFA rankings. Seeing as we just beat Argentina (second favourite fot the cup) in a 'friendly', we might be lucky.

[xtrudood]

My dads praying for Wales to qualify for something, anything, anytime.... not in this world cup but maybe next time.. kinda an ongoing motto, it's not qualified for an international tounament since about 1958 I think.

[Wmshyrga]

Here is a list of all the teams that have qualified (in order of date) so far:
The list is now final
African Zone (5 Teams)
Angola (ANG) 08-Oct-05
Cote d'Ivoire (CIV) 08-Oct-05
Togo (TOG) 08-Oct-05
Ghana (GHA) 08-Oct-05
Tunisia (TUN) 08-Oct-05

Asian Zone (4.5 Teams)
Japan (JPN) 08-Jun-05
Iran (IRN) 08-Jun-05
Korea Republic (KOR) 08-Jun-05
Saudi Arabia (KSA) 08-Jun-05

European Zone (14 Teams)
Germany (GER) Host
Ukraine (UKR) 03-Sep-05
Netherlands (NED) 08-Oct-05
Poland (POL) 08-Oct-05
England (ENG) 08-Oct-05
Croatia (CRO) 08-Oct-05
Italy (ITA) 08-Oct-05
Portugal (POR) 08-Oct-05
Sweden (SWE) 12-Oct-05
Serbia and Montenegro (SCG) 12-Oct-05
France (FRA) 12-Oct-05
Switzerland (SUI) 16-Nov-05
Spain (ESP) 16-Nov-05
Czech Republic (CZE) 16-Nov-05

North, Central American and Caribbean Zone (3.5 Teams)
USA (USA) 03-Sep-05
Mexico (MEX) 07-Sep-05
Costa Rica (CRC) 08-Oct-05
Trinidad and Tobago (TRI) 16-Nov-05

Oceanian Zone (0.5 Teams)
Australia (AUS) 16-Nov-05

South American Zone (4.5 Teams)
Argentina (ARG) 08-Jun-05
Brazil (BRA) 04-Sep-05
Ecuador (ECU) 08-Oct-05
Paraguay (PAR) 08-Oct-05



Modified by comrade at 6:39 AM 11/17/2005

[adoreorerie]

Quote, originally posted by pcread »Congratulations antipodean car dudes.
As a Leeds U fan, I know how good some aussie players can be (though Kewell's gone off since he signed for Liverpool)
Thanks. Kewell played really well this one IMO

[peveballery]

I watch it fully last nite, very good. I hope Australia will played well in next years world cup, same to Italy.

[lh88gFzI]

How great was that game?!? Down to penalties - one of the best IMO.

[gydrorway]

You can add Spain to the list, as expected. Now all press here says we will win the Cup ......also as expected.

[StarsWorld]

That Schwarzer guy is an absolute champion!
I haven't been this interested in soccer (I'm more of a rugby man) since South Korea got into the semi-finals 3 years ago!
Ironically, they were coached by the same guy - Gus Hiddink. That guy is a miracle worker.

[adoreorerie]

Quote, originally posted by geary »How great was that game?!? Down to penalties - one of the best IMO.
Stressful. It stressed me very much every time they didn't know what to do in a corner shot. It stressed me when the goal keeper droped the ball right infront of an Uruguayan... But It was heaps fun in the end

[RadcliffXX]

Too bad that Turkey lost.. They did an awesome job last world cup, taking 3rd place.

[ugosanchezo]

Quote, originally posted by Nath »My dads praying for Wales to qualify for something, anything, anytime.... not in this world cup but maybe next time.. kinda an ongoing motto, it's not qualified for an international tounament since about 1958 I think.
How come the different british countries compete separately? I would have guessed that england, scotland, wales, N. Ireland, and the other assorted territories would all compete as the UK.
Also, how come there are so many teams from europe qualified? The little I understand of FIFA is that only so many teams from certain regions are able to qualify right? if so, why is europe's quota so much bigger than everyone elses?

[gydrorway]

Quote, originally posted by somebody..lol »Too bad that Turkey lost.. They did an awesome job last world cup, taking 3rd place.
And too bad the way they reacted against the other team players. They should be banned for that.