South Africa national football team 2010
This article discusses the South African national football team at the FIFA World Cup 2010.
Qualification
The team was fixqualifiziert to host the World Cup, but still took part in qualifying matches Confederation of African Football CAF, as these also served as a qualification tournament for the African Cup of Nations 2010.
Since the Africa Championship was held in Angola, Angola also took part in the World Cup qualifiers. The South African team would have qualified for the third round, which they ultimately did not, so the games would have been counted with South African participation for the qualification for the African Cup of Nations, but not for the World Cup qualifiers. For it was Angola Inverted. In addition to South Africa and Angola difference due to the poor placement in the " ranking of the runners " after the second qualifying round of.
Previously met the South African national team in the second round in Group 4 on Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Equatorial Guinea and was placed as runner-up behind Nigeria on the " ranking of the runners ."
Second Round
June 1, 2008: Nigeria - South Africa 2-0 (2-0)
June 7, 2008: South Africa - Equatorial Guinea 4-1 (2-0)
June 14, 2008: Sierra Leone - South Africa 1-0 (1-0 )
June 21, 2008: South Africa - Sierra Leone 0-0
September 6 2008: South Africa - Nigeria 0:1 ( 0:0)
October 11, 2008: Equatorial Guinea - South Africa 0:1 ( 0:1)
South African squad
Preliminary round
In the preliminary round of the World Cup 2010 in South Africa, the South African national football team met in Group A on Mexico, Uruguay and France.
- Friday, June 11, 2010; 16:00 clock in Johannesburg ( Soccer City ) South Africa South Africa - Mexico 1-1 (0-0 )
- Wednesday, June 16, 2010; 20:30 clock in Tshwane / Pretoria South Africa South Africa - Uruguay Uruguay 0:3 ( 0:1)
- Tuesday, June 22, 2010; 16:00 clock in Mangaung / Bloemfontein France France - South Africa South Africa 1:2 ( 0:2 )
Despite the victory against France, the South African team missed the next round. Thus, South Africa was the first nation to already retired as host in the first round.