October 14th, 2011
What we know for sure is that the following teams HAVE qualified – Spain
Germany, Russia, Italy, France, the Netherlands, Greece, England,Denmark and
the best 2nd place team Sweden.
Also both host nations – Poland and Ukraine – are by default participants.
What is yet to be decided are four places from what are being called the ‘play-off draw’ – which will be the winners of the following pairs which were loted yesterday:
Turkey vs Croatia
Estonia vs Republic of Ireland
Czech Republic vs Montenegro
Bosnia and Herzegovina vs Portugal
There will be a home and away games with the first matches to be held on the 11th and 12th of
November and the return matches on the 15th of November.
The final tournament draw will be held on the 2nd December in Kiev.
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September 20th, 2011
World Champions Spain -now 2nd on the Fifa world rankings list after the Netherlands – have, as was expected, taken the maximum points after 6 perfect wins. They are now in first place. They have a very good team and have no problem putting goals in the net – 21 goals thus far in qualifying – the Netherlands 34 and Germany 25.
The 2nd place in this group is occupied by the Czech Republic who have 2 points more than the next team, Scotland.
Lithuania and Liechtenstein make up the other teams in the group and with 5 and 4 points respectively, dont have any chance of going through.
The Czechs have a better scoring record than the Scots and thus perhaps would be favorite to finish 2nd in the group.
However both teams still have to play the reigning world champions Spain and Scotland away to Liechtenstein and the Czech Republic also away in Lithuania.
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September 8th, 2011
The Netherlands are now the 4th nation to have qualified for next year’s EURO 2012 championships after beating Finland 0-2 in their 8th straight win in their group stage matches.
And while they have a 6 point lead over the next team in the group, Sweden, with only two games left in the qualifiers it is now mathematically a certainty, that even if they somehow lose first place they would at least qualify as the best of the ‘runners-up’ group.
UEFA, the European Football Federation and the organizers of EURO 2012 have confirmed this on their website -
http://www.uefa.com/uefaeuro2012/news/newsid=1673471.html
#uefa+euro+2012+qualifying+state+play
Along with the Netherlands, Spain, Italy and Germany along with the hosts Poland and Ukraine are all now officially qualified.
For an extremely well-written report on the Finland/Suomi – Netherlands match by a certain William Moore entitled “Finland 0 Netherlands 2: Non-destructive testing”writing in the autoritative Finnish daily ‘Helsingin Sanomat’ please see-
http://www.hs.fi/english/article/Finland+0+Netherlands+2+Non-destructive+testing/1135269156801
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August 31st, 2011
Spain’s number one spot as the world’s best football team – that is the highest ranked FIFA team has come to an end – Holland runners-up to Spain in the World Cup final last year have replaced them
Being in this same position for more than one year, with a loss to Italy -even though it was only a friendly match -means the world and European champions have been replaced by the Dutch national team.
The Dutch team will become just the 7th team ever to head the world rankings.
Uruguay’s recent Copa America wins mean that they are now best of the South American sides in 5th place, with Brazil dropping to 6th.
Germany retain 3rd place and England have moved up one to 4th.
While many deride these almost computer dictated places, there is an element of truth to them and no-one can deny, that the Dutch team remains one of the strongest football teams in Europe and the world.
Fifa’s latest Rankings : August 2011
1. Netherlands
2. Spain
3. Germany
4. England
5. Uruguay
6. Brazil
7. Italy
8. Portugal
9. Argentina
10. Croatia
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