2010 FIFA World Cup qualification
Qualifying for the 2010 FIFA World Cup was a series of tournaments organised by the six FIFA FIFA#Structure, confederations. Each confederation — the Asian Football Confederation, AFC (Asia), Confederation of African Football, CAF (Africa), CONCA ...
saw ten teams competing for places in the finals in
South Africa
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. The format is identical to that used for the previous three World Cup qualification tournaments held by CONMEBOL. Matches were scheduled so that there were always two games within a week, which was aimed at minimizing player travel time, particularly for players who were based in Europe.
The top four teams in the final standings qualified automatically for the
2010 FIFA World Cup
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play-off
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for a place at the World Cup.
Standings
On 24 November 2008, FIFA suspended the Peruvian Football Federation from all international competition due to governmental interference in its operations. The suspension was lifted on 20 December 2008.
The team from fourth place in the CONCACAF qualifying fourth round ( Costa Rica) entered into a home and away play-off against the team which finished fifth in the CONMEBOL qualifying group (
Uruguay
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). The winner of this play-off qualified for the
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finals. The draw for the order in which the two matches were played was held on 2 June 2009 during the FIFA Congress in Nassau,
the Bahamas
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The following five teams from CONMEBOL qualified for the final tournament.
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1 Bold indicates champions for that year. ''Italic'' indicates hosts for that year.
Goalscorers
There were 234 goals scored in 92 games, including three own goals, for an average of 2.54 goals per game (Costa Rica's single goal in the inter-confederation play-offs not included).
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* Humberto Suazo
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* Luís Fabiano
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Joaquín Botero
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Giancarlo Maldonado
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Luis Suárez
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Juan Román Riquelme
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* Matías Fernández
* Édison Méndez
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Carlos Bueno
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Roque Santa Cruz
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José Manuel Rey
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Ronald Vargas
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Mario Bolatti
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Waldo Ponce
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Jefferson Montero
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Ronald Rivero
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This was the first time that Argentina lost more than 2 or 4 matches and has not finished as leader (1st) or runner-up (2nd) of their qualifying group, during a FIFA World Cup qualification.
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World
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World
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