World Cup Soccer Online and Soccer Stars 2010

World Cup Soccer Online and Soccer Stars 2010 bring you the information about the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. From the 11th of June to the 11th of July 2010, the excitement and fan frenzy will be building to a deafening crescendo. Soccer fanatics are on high alert. It is time to defend to no end the pride of Region and Country.

This is big. No, it’s bigger than big. Considering the fact that soccer is the most popular sport in the world today, it is no jaw-dropping surprise that Soccer’s World Cup is actually the largest sporting event on the planet. Based on sheer numbers, fan attendance, television ratings, number of viewers, travel revenue, ticket sales and media coverage; there is no sporting event that even comes close to this one. If you take the NCAA Basketball Tournament, the World Series, the Super Bowl and the Olympics and add them all together, it would still not be as big as the World Cup!

Three and a half billion people worldwide will be watching this tournament unfold in at least ten locations in South Africa in 2010. Strangely enough, the past World Cup events have been all but ignored in the United States. This is rapidly changing as Americans get more familiar with this action-packed sport.

The Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) was established in 1904 and they are the ultimate authority when it comes to anything that has to do with International Soccer. For those of you that don’t know, the United States is one of the countries in the world that calls this sport “soccer”. Many other countries call it “football”.

FIFA is, of course, overseeing the qualifying of teams into the World Cup Tournament. This is an extremely lengthy and complicated process that is several years in the making. The process of a team qualifying is too complicated and lengthy to go into here, but suffice it to say that the teams that make the cut are well qualified. Individual team statistics considered for the qualifying starts two years before the World Cup begins. For this year, the host country team, in this case South Africa, gets in automatically. The rest of the field is chosen from 150 possible candidates spread out all over the globe. FIFA analyzes endless streams of data from the two years of competition leading up to this prestigious event. They eventually whittle the field down to 32 teams. These 32 will represent not only the best soccer teams from around the world, but the will represent the regions of the world.

Certainly, no other sport unifies and assembles so many different cultures from each of the different continents. But it also can cause friction and even violence between some fanatical groups. Soccer fans are among the most passionate (and expressive) of any sports spectator group and needless to say; security considerations are always very high as an explosive situation could arrive at any given time.

This is even true in the pre-competition games known as the “International Friendlies” matches, which start up early in March. These games are held all over the world and include more practice and a chance for teams to “feel out” their potential competition. They work on their conditioning and strategy more than anything else. Nevertheless, the competition is very fierce. There doesn’t seem to be anything “friendly” about this phase of the World Cup. It is indeed taken very seriously. Getting respect from opponents in the pre-competition match-ups can be a huge psychological edge going in to the tournament.

Of the 32 outstanding teams representing regions from all over the globe, only one will stand on the podium with cup in hand. Come July 11th, 31 of the competing countries at the World Cup will experience a range of emotions from mild disappointment to broken hearts. However, one region, one country and one aspiring championship team will experience the elation of overcoming incredible adversity to win, what some would call the greatest sporting event on the planet; The 2010 FIFA World Cup.

Comments are closed.