The second round of
qualifying matches for the
2010 FIFA World Cup
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CONCACAF section featured the 13 top-ranked CONCACAF teams in the FIFA World Rankings as of May 2007, along with the 11 winning teams from the
First Round. The draw took place on 25 November 2007 in
Durban
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South Africa
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Format
In this round 12 of the remaining 24 teams would be eliminated. There were 12 ties and the winners advanced to the
next round. All games were scheduled to be played in home and away format. Further organisation were involved in the draw, with the 12 ties grouped into three groups of four – each feeding into a separate Third Round group. Within each group of four ties, one tie included a team ranked 1–3, one included a team ranked 4–6 and two included teams ranked 7–12. The 13th ranked side (who received a bye in the first round), were ensured a tie against a team ranked 7–12. All other ties were against First Round Winners.
Group 1
Group 1A
''United States won 9–0 on aggregate.''
Group 1B
''Guatemala won 9–1 on aggregate.''
Group 1C
''Trinidad and Tobago won 3–2 on aggregate.''
Group 1D
''Cuba won 8–3 on aggregate.''
Group 2
Group 2A
''Mexico won 9–0 on aggregate.''
Group 2B
''Jamaica won 13–0 on aggregate.''
Group 2C
''Honduras won 6–2 on aggregate.''
Group 2D
''Canada won 7–1 on aggregate.''
Group 3
Group 3A
''Costa Rica won 5–2 on aggregate.''
Group 3B
''Suriname won 3–1 on aggregate.''
Group 3C
''El Salvador won 3–2 on aggregate.''
Group 3D
''Haiti won 1–0 on aggregate.''
Goalscorers
A total of 90 goals were scored over 24 games, for an average of 3.75 goals per game.
5 goals
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Luton Shelton
Luton George Kieshawn Shelton (11 November 1985 – 22 January 2021) was a Jamaican professional footballer who played as a striker or winger. At the time of his death, he was the top scorer for the Jamaican national football team with 35 g ...
4 goals
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Ali Gerba
Ali Ngon Gerba (; born September 4, 1981) is a former professional soccer player who played as a forward. Born in Cameroon, he represented the Canada national team.
Club career
Canada and United States
In 2000 Gerba signed with the Montreal ...
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Carlos Ruíz
3 goals
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Roberto Linares
Roberto Linares Balmaseda (born February 10, 1986) is a football forward from Cuba playing currently for Argentine side All Boys.
Club career
A powerful and pacy striker, Linares played for his provincial side Villa Clara. He was the Cuban lea ...
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David Suazo
Óscar David Suazo Velázquez (born 5 November 1979) is a Honduran retired professional footballer turned coach who played as a striker.
Suazo played more than 300 league games and scored over 980 league goals in Italy during a span of 7 yea ...
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Jared Borgetti
Jared Francisco Borgetti Echavarría (; born 14 August 1973) is a Mexican former professional footballer who currently works as a commentator for ESPN Deportes and ESPN Mexico.
As a player, Borgetti was known as a prolific goal scorer at both ...
2 goals
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Kerry Skepple
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John Barry Nusum
John Barry Nusum (born March 18, 1981 in Mineola, New York) is an Americans, American-born Bermuda, Bermudian retired association football, football player.
Career
College
Nusum grew up in Devonshire, Bermuda, before returning to the United St ...
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Dwayne De Rosario
Dwayne Anthony De Rosario OOnt (born May 15, 1978) is a Canadian former professional soccer player, who played as a forward or as an attacking midfielder. De Rosario last played for the Mississauga MetroStars of the Major Arena Soccer League. ...
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Jaine Valencia
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Eliseo Quintanilla
Eliseo Antonio Quintanilla Ortíz (born 5 February 1983) is a former Salvadoran professional footballer.
Club career
Nicknamed ''Cheyo'', Quintanilla started his professional career at Salvadorian giants FAS, making his professional debut in ...
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Gonzalo Romero
Gonzalo Antonio Romero Paz (born 25 March 1975) is a retired Guatemalan football midfielder who last played for local club Deportivo Marquense in the Guatemala's top division.
Club career
Romero joined Guatemalan top side CSD Municipal in 2 ...
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Abner Trigueros
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Wilson Palacios
Wilson Roberto Palacios Suazo (; born 29 July 1984) is a Honduran former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder.
Born in La Ceiba, he played for Victoria and Olimpia in Honduras before moving to England, where he played ...
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Deon Burton
Deon John Burton (born 25 October 1976) is a football coach and former professional footballer who played as a striker and who is the current Under-23's Manager of EFL Championship club West Bromwich Albion. His numerous clubs in English footba ...
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Carlos Vela
Carlos Alberto Vela Garrido (born 1 March 1989) is a Mexican professional footballer who captains and plays for Major League Soccer club Los Angeles FC. Described as a versatile player who can play as a forward, winger, and attacking midfield ...
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Fernando Arce
Fernando Enrique Arce Ruiz (born 24 April 1980) is a Mexican former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.
Club career
Arce came out of Club América's youth prospects, but never debuted there. Arce debuted for Irapuato in a ga ...
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Clifton Sandvliet
Clifton Sandvliet (born August 18, 1977) is a Surinamese retired professional footballer. He played for SV Transvaal, Walking Boys Company and the National Army. Sandvliet won three top scorer standings of the league SVB.
His record with the ...
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Stern John
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Brian Ching
Brian Ching (born May 24, 1978) is an American former professional soccer player who played for twelve years in Major League Soccer and represented the U.S. national team for eight years.
Ching's professional career began when he was the 16th ...
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Clint Dempsey
Clinton Drew Dempsey (; born March 9, 1983) is an American former professional soccer player who played as a forward and midfielder. During his career, he played in the Premier League for Fulham and Tottenham Hotspur and in Major League Soccer ...
1 goal
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Tyio Simon
Tyio Simon (born 29 September 1978) is an Antiguan and Barbudan footballer, currently playing for SAP in the Antigua and Barbuda Premier Division.
International career
Simon, not be confused with fellow Antiguan midfielder Troy Simon, made his ...
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Issey Nakajima-Farran
Issey Morgan Nakajima-Farran (born 16 May 1984) is a Canadian professional soccer player who plays for UE Tàrrega in the Primera Catalana.
Club career
Youth
Born to a Japanese mother and an English Zimbabwean father, Nakajima-Farran moved ...
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Álvaro Saborío
Álvaro Alberto Saborío Chacón (; born 25 March 1982) is a Costa Rican professional footballer, who plays as a forward and captains Costa Rican club San Carlos from the Primera División de Costa Rica. Saborío originally retired in 2017, b ...
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Armando Alonso
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Bryan Ruiz
Bryan Jafet Ruiz González (; born 18 August 1985) is a Costa Rican former footballer. A left-footed attacking midfielder, he also played as a second striker.
Ruiz is the only Central American footballer to have played in the UEFA Champions ...
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Randall Azofeifa
Randall Azofeifa Corrales (born 30 December 1984) is a Costa Rican football midfielder who currently plays for Sporting San José.
Club career
Azofeifa won two national championship, the UNCAF Nations Cup title and a CONCACAF Champions Cup t ...
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Victor Núñez
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Jaime Colomé
Jaime Colomé Valencia (born June 30, 1979 in Havana) is a Cuban retired footballer.
Club career
Colomé played most of his career as a midfielder for Ciudad La Habana. He played the 2016/17 season at Parham in Antigua and Barbuda alongside c ...
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Leonel Duarte
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Jeniel Márquez
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Luis Anaya
Luis Alonso Anaya Merino (born May 19, 1981) is a Salvadoran former professional football player. He was banned for life in 2013, for match fixing while playing for the El Salvador national football team.
Club career
Anaya started his senior ...
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Jason Roberts
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Patrick Modeste
Patrick Modeste (born September 30, 1976 in Grenada) is a Grenadian football player, who represented Q.P.R., and the Grenada national football team
The Grenada national football team represents Grenada in international football and is co ...
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Mario Rafael Rodríguez
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Nigel Codrington
Nigel Codrington (born 5 July 1979) is a Guyanese former footballer
A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, ...
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Julio César de León
Julio César de León Dailey (; born 13 September 1979) is a Honduran footballer who currently plays for Olancho F.C. in the Honduran Liga Nacional de Ascenso as a midfielder. He is known for being a free-kick specialist and was an importan ...
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Demar Phillips
Demar Constantine Phillips (born 23 September 1983) is a Jamaican footballer who plays as a left wingback.
Early life
Demar Phillips was born on 23 September 1983 in a small town in the district of St Thomas outside Kingston. He describes gr ...
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Ian Goodison
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Marlon King
Marlon Francis King (born 26 April 1980) is a Jamaican former professional footballer who played as a striker.
Born and raised in south London, he started his career in non-League football with Dulwich Hamlet. He played for Barnet, Gillingham ...
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Omar Daley
Omar Daley (born 25 April 1981) is a Jamaican footballer. He plays as a winger. He has also played for the Jamaica national team winning more than 50 caps. Daley was born in Kingston, Jamaica. He has played for Portmore United in his homeland ...
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Ricardo Gardner
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Tyrone Marshall
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Andrés Guardado
José Andrés Guardado Hernández (; born 28 September 1986) is a Mexican professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for La Liga club Real Betis and captains the Mexico national team.
Popularly known as ''Principito'' (Spanish for '' ...
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Luis Tejada
Luis Carlos "Matador" Tejada Hansell (born 28 March 1982) is a Panamanian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Molinos El Pirata.
Club career
Tejada's debut in professional soccer was with Tauro in the local league, where he ma ...
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José Luis Garcés
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Chris Megaloudis
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Petter Villegas
Petter Villegas (born November 15, 1975 in Esmeraldas) is an Ecuadorian-born Puerto Rican footballer who played for Puerto Rico Islanders in the North American Soccer League.
Career
Youth and college
Villegas came to the United States with h ...
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Kenwin McPhee
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Marlon James
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Germaine van Dijk
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Darryl Roberts
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Eddie Johnson
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Landon Donovan
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Michael Bradley
1 own goal
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Daryl Ferguson (playing against United States)
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Tervor Lennen (against Mexico)
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Eugene Martha (against Haiti)
Notes
References
External links
FIFA.com
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