The African zone saw Ghana become the first team to qualify for the final showdown from the continent. Ghana defeated bottom placed Sudan in Group 4 by 2-0. Goals from Muntari and Chelsea player Essien in the 14th and 53rd minute respectively saw the home team through to South Africa for the 2010 finals.
Group 1 saw Cameroon defeating Gabon by 2-0 and Togo drawing 1-1 at home against Morocco. Group 2 had Mozambique defeating Kenya by 1-0. Another game from the group saw Tunisia scoring a late goal to draw 2-2 against Nigeria.
A goal by Ahmed Hassan for Egypt gave his team a 1-0 victory over bottom placed Rwanda in Group 3. Algeria vs. Zambia saw Algeria win the game with a 1-0 score line. Another match in group 4 saw Benin drew 1-1, away to Mali.
Group 5 had Ivory Coast defeating Burkina Faso 5-0. A goal from Toure and two goals each from Keita and Drogba saw Ivory Coast winning their 4th consecutive game in the group. Ivory Coast is just one point away from the finals in South Africa. Malawi defeated Guinea 2-1 in the other match from the group.
In the South American Zone, Peru defeated Uruguay 1-0, Colombia defeats Ecuador 2-0, Argentina loses 1-3 to Brazil, Chile drew 2-2 at home against Venezuela and Paraguay defeats Bolivia 1-0. The results saw Brazil qualifying for 2010 finals and kept their record of qualifying in all the FIFA World Cups till date. Chile and Paraguay are on second and third place respectively with 27 points. Argentina remains 4th in the group with 22 points.
No referee or referee’s assistant should come from any of the teams that will qualify for the 2010 world cup in South Africa.This will prevent any favoritism,for example if team( A) is a strong team playing against team (B) a week team and the winner is to meet team (C).Let’s say the referee officiating team A and B’s match is from the country (C) where team C comes from. Then the referee will prefare team B to win in other to meet team C.
ln other to prevent last minute penalty for team B,let us all send similar email to FIFA about my suggetion.Let me know what you think everyone.
Thank you,
Emmanuel Carter
From Canada