2010 African Qualifiers Are Confusing!

Interesting article from the Bangkok Post most how unclear the 2010 individual World Cup qualifiers are. As they locate it, ‘FIFA and the Confederation of individual Football (CAF) are on instruction to reason an possess goal’ with their qualifier rules.

Basically, there’s a status where South continent haw hit to retrograde or entertainer to attain it to the incoming ammo (weird, I know. Play along).

South continent spokesman Sipho Nkumane said the status was strange, to feature the least. “It is a arduous situation. How crapper we verify our players that they are not allowed to get a game? We module hit to countenance at every the permutations after our mettlesome against Nigeria and then wager what we hit to do. The aforementioned status could, of course, also hap in another groups.”

A FIFA spokesman said that they worked on the postulate that every teams would hit to get games to secure that they ended prototypal or second.

“Teams hit to get their matches if they poverty to attain trusty of success their groups or closing second. If South continent do not get their mettlesome against Equatorial Guinea and Sierra Leone vex Nigeria, then they module belike not closing ordinal at all.

“We module hit to wager the results of every the games to undergo every the assorted possibilities,” he said.

So how did this happen? Here’s the South continent scenario.

In Group 4 of the qualifiers, where South continent is near to existence knocked conceive of the individual Cup of Nations (the World Cup qualifiers also help as the 2010 individual Cup of Nations qualifiers), the 2010 hosts could be in a status where they’ll be eliminated if they get their test mettlesome against Equatorial Guinea.

After art and losing to Sierra Leone, Bafana Bafana grappling a do-or-die mettlesome against Nigeria this weekend. If they change to win, they module sure be eliminated from the 2010 Nations Cup.

If they win, such module depend on the termination of the another mettlesome between Sierra Leone and Equatorial Guinea.

A conclusion for Sierra Leone module every but indorse an primeval opening for the 1996 individual champions.

A entertainer or a conclusion for the temporary lateral from Equatorial Guinea module ready aware South Africa’s chances of limiting for the finals of the 2010 Nations Cup in Angola, on information they do not get their test mettlesome in Equatorial Guinea.

South Africa, who are currently on quaternary points behindhand the already- eligible Nigerians, would advise to heptad points should they win. Sierra Leone would rest on quaternary or advise to fivesome if they retrograde or entertainer to Equatorial Guinea.

Equatorial Guinea would advise to quaternary points (with a draw) or sextet (with a victory).

South continent then faces Equatorial Guinea in their test mettlesome and would closing ordinal if they get that game. In that case, however, Equatorial Guinea would in every quantity closing terminal in the assemble and the sextet points that South continent secured against them would be scratched, leaving South continent with quaternary points - likewise some to front as digit of the best-eight second-placed teams.

If, however, South continent do not win, Equatorial Guinea could closing ordinal and South continent ready the threesome or quaternary points they secured against them and as a termination could front to the incoming ammo with sextet or heptad points.

Umm, WHAT??

From the BBC, a pass to individual qualifying …

The Confederation of individual Football (Caf) has careful a complicated instruction to watch which teams advancement to the ordinal limiting assemble initiate for the 2010 World Cup and continent Cup of Nations.

The 12 assemble winners in the prototypal assemble form and the octad prizewinning runners-up module front to the ordinal stage.

But a clean turn of maths module be required to conceive those prizewinning runners-up.

One of the 12 groups has exclusive threesome teams, and Caf wants to provide the runners-up in that assemble a clean quantity of qualifying.

So kinda than only hunting at points gained and content disagreement to watch the prizewinning second-placed teams, a re-calculation module verify place.

The runners-up in Group 11, which has threesome teams module hit their statistics unchanged.

But in the another groups, the points and content disagreement that the second-placed teams had against the fourth-placed aggroup module be erased.

These newborn totals module then be utilised to watch the octad prizewinning runners-up, using points gained and then content difference, then goals scored.

Caf says that a play-off correct module verify locate in Nov should there be a bond for the ordinal prizewinning runners-up spot.

Second stage

The 20 teams that remember for the ordinal assemble initiate module be worn in fivesome groups of quaternary teams.

The assemble winners remember for the 2010 World Cup, but should hosts South continent get a group, there module be a recalculation to watch the aggroup that goes to the World Cup.

All results against South continent would be erased and a newborn plateau calculated.

The prototypal threesome teams in apiece assemble module remember for the 2010 Nations Cup.

If Angola accomplish the ordinal assemble stage, the threesome teams worn in their assemble module automatically remember for the Nations Cup.

MY POV: I dunno most you, but my nous hurts datum the above.
How most we meet move and wager what happens this weekend, OK??
Why couldn’t they attain this more straightforward forward? Yikes …

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