This is certainly the most interesting group for all the supporters of the
Slovenian national football team. The draw in
Johannesburg has dedicated to us
England,
U.S.A and
Algeria.
Slovenia will play the first match with Algeria, which will be probably also the most important for our national team. Because victory can give them a lot of confidence for the next match against the
Americans, which match will practically decide for second place in the group, since
English team is one of the favorites to win the title of the
World Champions annd should easily won the first place..
Short description of national teams:
England:
After the failure in qualifying for
EURO 2008, the
English team changed the coach.
Italian strategist
Fabio Cappelo has sat on coach chair. One of the best coaches in the world has regenerated
English game and put them on the old ways of glory.
English supporters expects at the
World Cup the title of the
World Champions. Selector of
England will have on the
WC available a wealth of celebrities, from
Rooney to
Beckham, who has to earn his ticket to the team, but with good games in
Milan, he will probably get into it.
England has won only one
World Championship title. They won at home on
World Cup 1966, and this year they will certainly do everything to re-make that success. In qualifications for
World Cup 2010 they didn't have any problems. They experienced only one defeat against
Ukraine (when they were already qualified to the
World Cup), but they won the other matches. As one of the interests,
England has played against
Slovenia on September last year at
Wembley and won with result
2-1.
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Algeria:
Algerian national football team (home fans call them »desert foxes«) has so far played on WC twice. In 1982, and four years later. They fell out both times after pre-contest. The greatest success of this team is the title of African champions in 1990. This year in additional qualifications they surprisingly beat the current African champions the Egyptians. This year they also occurred on the African Nations Cup and occupied an excellent fourth place. After the surprise defeat in the first round against Malawi, they gathered later, beat Mali and play tie with Angola and qualified into quarter finals. There they surprisingly beat Ivory Coast and they lost in the semi-finals against old friends Egyptians. Public expectations are also high in Algeria. They want to get into eighth finals of the World Cup finals, but they are certainly not the only one with this goal.
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U.S.A:
The U.S. team has ranked on this year's World Cup without any problems. They smoothly won the first place in American qualifying group. They left behind even the Mexican team. Americans have already occurred at the first World Cup in 1930 in Uruguay. At that time, they also reached their greatest success at the football World Cup. They landed on third place. Until now, the Americans qualified eight times on the World Cup, in addition, they won Concafac Cup ten times and they also play on the Confederations Cup four times. Last year they achieved the greatest success in the big competitions, where they lost against Brazil (3-2) in the finals. Americans also played very well on the Olympic Games. So far they won two medals (silver and bronze). They are also very strong in women's football, where they won two titles yet. Mens are ranked on 14th place on FIFA ranking list, and womens are reigning at the top.
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Slovenia:
Slovenian team has ranked second time this year on the World Cup. In 2002 they appeared on the World Cup in South Korea and Japan and occupied the last place in their group. Once they qualified on the EC and were also eliminated after the first part. In their pre-contest group, Slovenia ranked on the second place (after Slovakia), which has led them further into additional qualifications. Draw devote them the Russian national team. The first match, which they played in the Russian capital, they played very well and returned home with a 2-1 outcome for Russia.
In Maribor there went for real. The players of Slovenian team started very brave and pushing the whole first half on the Russian doors. After outstanding pass of Valter Birsa to Zlatko Dedič, he scored great goal and took Slovenia to the WC 2010.
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