England’s World Cup challenge

Friday, 04/12/2009

Fabio Capello’s England face USA, Algeria and Slovenia in the World Cup finals.

England will play USA first –and near their expected training camp in Rustenburg on June 12  

Their second match will be against Algeria on June 18 in Cape Town and they face Slovenia on June 23 in Port Elizabeth.

If England win their group they will meet the team who are second in Group D, which includes Germany, Australia, Ghana and Serbia. If they are second they would play the group winner.

Former England captain David Beckham said: “It is an interesting group but they are all hard games when you get to this point.”

The opening match of the tournament is South Africa v Mexico on June 11.

Some 853 matches were played during the qualifiers, yielding 2,000 goals.

 

FULL WORLD CUP DRAW

 

GROUP A

South Africa

Mexico

Uruguay

France

 

GROUP B

Argentina

South Korea

Nigeria

Greece

 

GROUP C

England

USA

Algeria

Slovenia

 

GROUP D

Germany

Australia

Serbia

Ghana

 

GROUP E

Holland

Japan

Cameroon

Denmark

 

GROUP F

Italy

New Zealand

Paraguay

Slovakia

 

GROUP G

Brazil

North Korea

Ivory Coast

Portugal

 

GROUP H

Spain

Switzerland

Honduras

Chile

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