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Post by frag on Jun 15, 2011 15:31:38 GMT 1
So qualifying starts today, a Football League player may be involved - Port Vale's Anthony Griffith, who has been called up to the Montserrat squad despite never having visited the island.
Montserrat has a population of less than 6,000, the lowest of any country or territory to enter the World Cup qualifiers. There were 13,000 in Montserrat as recently as 1995, but much of the island has been devastated by a series of volcanic eruptions. Their capital, Plymouth, is a ghost town that remains covered in ash (have a look on Google maps). Montserrat are ranked 222nd in the Elo ratings, conceding an average 7.4 goals per game; their last three world cup qualifiers were defeats by 13-0, 7-0 (in a two-leg match against Bermuda in 2004), and 7-1 (in a one-off game against Suriname in 2008). In the circumstances, it's impressive that they can put together a team at all.
Belize is just south of Mexico, and has a population of around 333,000. They're ranked joint 179th in the Elo ratings. Last world cup, they reached the second qualifying round, where they were beaten 9-0 on aggregate by Mexico.
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Post by Panda on Jun 15, 2011 22:42:22 GMT 1
Nice work frag. I launched a new blog in the early hours of this morning, which will have updates and various pieces on the 2014 campaign. It is at: worldcuptracker.wordpress.comFormer Mansfield and Notts County player Junior Mendes is in the line-up for Montserrat.
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Post by suedehead on Jun 15, 2011 22:53:40 GMT 1
Nice work frag. I launched a new blog in the early hours of this morning, which will have updates and various pieces on the 2014 campaign. It is at: worldcuptracker.wordpress.conFormer Mansfield and Notts County player Junior Mendes is in the line-up for Montserrat. Why would you call it something dot con? Is it Nigerian?
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Post by Panda on Jun 16, 2011 1:01:03 GMT 1
CONCACAF 1st round, 1st leg: | 2-5 | |
(played in Trinidad) Deon McCauley had the honour of scoring the first goal of the 2014 World Cup as Belize beat Montserrat. McCauley went on to score a hat-trick. Montserrat threatened a shock when they scored just before half-time to send the sides in level at 1-1. But Belize took control after the break with four second half goals and look certain to progress to the group stage after Sunday's second leg (as long as they don't get suspended by FIFA).
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Post by frag on Jun 16, 2011 10:36:56 GMT 1
Nice work frag. I launched a new blog in the early hours of this morning, which will have updates and various pieces on the 2014 campaign. It is at: worldcuptracker.wordpress.comFormer Mansfield and Notts County player Junior Mendes is in the line-up for Montserrat. Any chance of an RSS link? ;D
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Post by Panda on Jun 16, 2011 18:43:56 GMT 1
Should be one there now...
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Post by Panda on Jun 16, 2011 19:05:59 GMT 1
Found a site that has updated images of team strips so I'll change the colours on the tabs accordingly.
From the photo gallery on the FIFA website, it appears both teams were wearing their away kits yesterday for some reason.
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Post by Panda on Jun 17, 2011 22:27:54 GMT 1
Sunday's second leg between Belize and Montserrat has been postponed after Belize were suspended by FIFA due to "severe governmental interference."
No new date has been said but FIFA has stated if the game is not played by July 10th, Belize will be excluded from the World Cup.
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Post by Shireblogger on Jun 18, 2011 8:34:44 GMT 1
Not a very auspicious start to the tournament.
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Post by Panda on Jun 18, 2011 14:46:13 GMT 1
Not a very auspicious start to the tournament. It's no surprise with FIFA... A possible outcome of all this could be Montserrat finding themselves in a World Cup group stage for the first time ever, which could see them going up against Canada, Trinidad & Tobago or Panama (currently lighting up the CONCACAF Gold Cup).
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Post by Panda on Jun 21, 2011 22:29:22 GMT 1
Rather than doing a separate thread, I'm going to keep track of eliminations in this one. Presenting: THE HAVEN WORLD CUP WALLAFG | ALB | ALG | ASA | AND | ANG | AIA | ATG | ARG | ARM | ARU | AUS | AUT | AZE | BAH | BHR | BAN | BRB | BLR | BEL | BEN | BLZ | BER | BOL | BIH | BOT | BRA | VGB | BUL | BFA | MYA | BDI | CAM | CMR | CAN | CPV | CAY | CTA | CHA | CHI | CHN | COL | COM | CGO | COK | CRC | CRO | CUB | CUW | CYP | CZE | COD | DEN | DJI | DMA | DOM | TLS | ECU | EGY | SLV | ENG | EQG | ERI | EST | ETH | FRO | FIJ | FIN | FRA | GAB | GAM | GEO | GER | GHA | GRE | GRN | GUA | GUI | GNB | GUY | HAI | HON | HKG | HUN | ISL | IND | IDN | IRN | IRQ | IRL | ISR | ITA | CIV | JAM | JPN | JOR | KAZ | KEN | KUW | KGZ | LAO | LVA | LIB | LES | LBR | LBY | LIE | LTU | LUX | MAC | MKD | MAD | MWI | MAS | MDV | MLI | MLT | MRI | MEX | MDA | MNG | MNE | MSR | MAR | MOZ | NAM | NEP | NED | NCL | NZL | NCA | NIG | NGA | PRK | NIR | NOR | OMA | PAK | PLE | PAN | PNG | PAR | PER | PHI | POL | POR | PUR | QAT | ROU | RUS | RWA | SAM | SMR | STP | KSA | SCO | SEN | SRB | SEY | SLE | SIN | SVK | SVN | SOL | SOM | RSA | KOR | ESP | SRI | SKN | LCA | VIN | SUD | SUR | SWZ | SWE | SUI | SYR | TAH | TPE | TJK | TAN | THA | TOG | TGA | TRI | TUN | TUR | TKM | TCA | UGA | UKR | UAE | USA | URU | VIR | UZB | VAN | VEN | VIE | WAL | YEM | ZAM | ZIM |
204 entered, 204 remain All teams that are still in the World Cup appear on the wall. When a team is eliminated, they are removed from the wall and will appear on the eliminations list below it.
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Post by Panda on Jun 30, 2011 14:03:45 GMT 1
Asian 1st round, 1st leg: Cambodia and Mongolia earned their first ever World Cup victories in the opening round of games in Asia. Nepal, managed by ex-Chelsea and Spurs defender Graham Roberts, edged out East Timor. The Philippines, who had Fulham goalkeeper Neil Etheridge in their line-up scored a valuable away goal against Sri Lanka. Top seeds in this round, Malaysia made hard work of Taiwan, while there were more comfortable victories for Vietnam, Bangladesh and Palestine. The second legs take place this weekend.
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Post by Panda on Jun 30, 2011 19:01:07 GMT 1
The Oceania qualifying format has been changed.
The Pacific Games in August/September will no longer be part of World Cup qualifying due to Guam (members of the AFC, rather than the OFC) planning to participate.
Oceania's qualifying will now consist of three stages:
Round 1 will feature 4 teams (American Samoa, Cook Islands, Samoa and Tonga) playing in a mini-tournament in November. The winner will go forward to Round 2.
Round 2 will be the revived OFC Nations Cup tournament in June 2012. The winners from stage 1 will join the other 7 OFC members (New Zealand, New Caledonia, Fiji, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, Tahiti and Papua New Guinea). The winners of the tournament will qualify for the 2013 Confederations Cup and the top four will go forward to Round 3.
Round 3, like before, will be a 4-team round-robin group with the winners going forward to the intercontinental playoff for a place at the World Cup finals.
The changes mean the minimum number of games required for qualification will be 13 instead of 8. The maximum will probably be 16 instead of 14.
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Post by Shireblogger on Jul 1, 2011 15:13:21 GMT 1
Fascinating detail, and I love the wallchart.
My one-stop-shop for WC qualifying. Thanks MrH.
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Post by suedehead on Jul 1, 2011 15:46:00 GMT 1
So, to paraphrase the Oceania qualifying competition, they go through a convoluted process with a stop-off for the OFC Nations Cup on the way before New Zealand go into a play-off.
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Post by Panda on Jul 1, 2011 21:55:21 GMT 1
So, to paraphrase the Oceania qualifying competition, they go through a convoluted process with a stop-off for the OFC Nations Cup on the way before New Zealand go into a play-off. Pretty much, though I'm glad to see them bring the Nations Cup back. Without a proper tournament, the OFC was becoming even more pointless than it already is. And New Zealand are nowhere near as dominant as Australia were and by playing more regularly, one of the other teams could challenge them.
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Post by Panda on Jul 1, 2011 21:56:02 GMT 1
Fascinating detail, and I love the wallchart. My one-stop-shop for WC qualifying. Thanks MrH. Many thanks, Shireblogger. The wall will lose its first team tomorrow...
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Post by Panda on Jul 2, 2011 12:44:25 GMT 1
Asian 1st round, 2nd leg: | 0-5 | | agg: 1-7 | (played in Nepal) |
East Timor are the first team eliminated from the 2014 World Cup after losing to Nepal. 2-1 up from the first leg, Nepal took control with an early penalty, and although East Timor managed to hold the score at 1-0 until half-time, two goals just after the break sealed their fate. Nepal added a couple more right at the end to complete a 7-1 aggregate victory. They will face Jordan in the next round.
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Post by Panda on Jul 2, 2011 12:50:28 GMT 1
THE HAVEN WORLD CUP WALLAFG | ALB | ALG | ASA | AND | ANG | AIA | ATG | ARG | ARM | ARU | AUS | AUT | AZE | BAH | BHR | BAN | BRB | BLR | BEL | BEN | BLZ | BER | BOL | BIH | BOT | BRA | VGB | BUL | BFA | MYA | BDI | CAM | CMR | CAN | CPV | CAY | CTA | CHA | CHI | CHN | COL | COM | CGO | COK | CRC | CRO | CUB | CUW | CYP | CZE | COD | DEN | DJI | DMA | DOM | | ECU | EGY | SLV | ENG | EQG | ERI | EST | ETH | FRO | FIJ | FIN | FRA | GAB | GAM | GEO | GER | GHA | GRE | GRN | GUA | GUI | GNB | GUY | HAI | HON | HKG | HUN | ISL | IND | IDN | IRN | IRQ | IRL | ISR | ITA | CIV | JAM | JPN | JOR | KAZ | KEN | KUW | KGZ | LAO | LVA | LIB | LES | LBR | LBY | LIE | LTU | LUX | MAC | MKD | MAD | MWI | MAS | MDV | MLI | MLT | MRI | MEX | MDA | MNG | MNE | MSR | MAR | MOZ | NAM | NEP | NED | NCL | NZL | NCA | NIG | NGA | PRK | NIR | NOR | OMA | PAK | PLE | PAN | PNG | PAR | PER | PHI | POL | POR | PUR | QAT | ROU | RUS | RWA | SAM | SMR | STP | KSA | SCO | SEN | SRB | SEY | SLE | SIN | SVK | SVN | SOL | SOM | RSA | KOR | ESP | SRI | SKN | LCA | VIN | SUD | SUR | SWZ | SWE | SUI | SYR | TAH | TPE | TJK | TAN | THA | TOG | TGA | TRI | TUN | TUR | TKM | TCA | UGA | UKR | UAE | USA | URU | VIR | UZB | VAN | VEN | VIE | WAL | YEM | ZAM | ZIM |
Eliminated: East Timor | 02/07/2011 | lost to Nepal in Asian 1st round |
204 entered, 203 remain
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Post by Panda on Jul 3, 2011 0:06:48 GMT 1
CONCACAF 1st round, 1st leg: | 0-4 | |
The Bahamas achieve only their third ever victory in the World Cup with a comfortable win over the Turks & Caicos Islands. The result puts them on the verge of a place in a qualifying group stage for the first time ever.
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