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Mar 27, 2024 · World Cup 2010 South Africa: Round date place Opponent Results; Group B: 12/06/2010: 15:00: N: Nigeria: 1:0 (1:0) Group B: 17/06/2010: 12:30: N: South Korea: 4:1 (2:1) Group B: 22/06/2010: 19:30: N: Greece: 2:0 (0:0) Round of 16: 27/06/2010: 19:30: N: Mexico: 3:1 (2:0) Quarter-finals: 03/07/2010: 15:00: N: Germany: 0:4 (0:1) Friendlies 2010 ...
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Spain's Joan Capdevila holding the FIFA World Cup Trophy after defeating the Netherlands in the final. The 2010 FIFA World Cup was the 19th FIFA World Cup, the world championship for men's national football teams. It took place in South Africa from 11 June to 11 July 2010. The bidding process for hosting the tournament finals was open only to ...
Eight years after the victory on home soil, Argentina won the World Cup title for the second time. Diego Maradona was voted Best Player of the tournament after scoring five goals and assisting the decisive 3-2 by Jorge Burruchaga in the 84th minute of the final.
- Background
- Route to The Final
- Match
- Post-Match
The 2010 FIFA World Cup was the 19th edition of the FIFA World Cup, FIFA's football competition for national teams, held between 11 June and 11 July 2010 in South Africa. South Africa qualified for the finals automatically as tournament hosts, while 205 teams competed for the remaining 31 spots through qualifying rounds organised by the six FIFA co...
The Netherlands
The Netherlands entered the World Cup having won all eight matches in their qualifying campaign. They were then drawn in Group E for the World Cup, in which they were joined by Cameroon, Denmark and Japan. Their first match was against Denmark at Soccer City, on 14 June 2010. The Netherlands took the lead shortly after half-time when Denmark's Simon Poulsen cleared a cross from Robin van Persie, but it struck the back of Daniel Agger and deflected in for an own goal. Dirk Kuyt added a second...
Spain
Like the Netherlands, Spain also won all of the matches in their qualifying campaign. They were then drawn in Group H, alongside Chile, Honduras and Switzerland. Spain began their finals campaign on 16 June 2010 in the Moses Mabhida Stadium against Switzerland. In what The Daily Telegraph reporter Jeremy Wilson described as "among the bigger shocks in the competition's entire history", Switzerland won the game 1–0 with Gelson Fernandes scoring the winner in the second half after teammate Eren...
Pre-match
Howard Webb of England was named as the referee for the final, along with fellow Englishmen Darren Cann and Michael Mullarkey who were the assistant referees. Webb was the first Englishman to referee a World Cup final since Jack Taylor officiated the 1974 final. A former police officer from Rotherham, Webb was one of the English Select Group of referees, and had officiated Premier League matches since 2003. He was appointed to the FIFA list of international match referees in 2005, and before...
First half
The Netherlands kicked off at approximately 8:30 pm local time (6:30 pm UTC) in temperatures of 14 °C (57 °F), with humidity of 34%. Spain won a free kick on 5 minutes, when van Bronckhorst fouled Alonso. Xavi's kick reached Sergio Ramos in the penalty area, who headed the ball towards the bottom-left corner of the goal, but Stekelenburg was able to make dive down to make the save. Pique then gained possession of the loose ball, and attempted to pass to Villa in the centre, but Stekelenberg i...
Second half
There were no substitutions at half-time, and Spain kicked off the second half. They had the first opportunity of the half on 48 minutes, when the ball reached Capdevila around 6 yards (5 m) from goal, but he scuffed his attempted side-footed shot. Spain had a penalty appeal turned down on 50 minutes when van Bommel and Alonso were contesting the ball, after which the Netherlands moved down the field and crossed the ball into the Spanish penalty area, but no Netherlands players were able to r...
The win was Spain's first World Cup title, and it lifted them to first place in the FIFA World Rankings with the Netherlands moving into second. Spain also became the first European nation to win a World Cup outside of Europe. At the conclusion of the match, the Spanish team changed into their red-shirted home kit for the presentation. These shirts...
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Results. Download the World Cup fixtures. Sunday, 11 July 2010. Netherlands. 0-1 (HT 0-0) Spain. Iniesta (116) Bookings: Van Persie (15) Van Bommel (22) De Jong (28) Van Bronckhorst (54)...
Scores & Fixtures 2010 Argentina: World Cup Table; Date Time Round Day Venue Result GF GA Opponent Poss Attendance Captain Formation Referee Match Report Notes; 2010-06-12: 16:00: Group stage: Sat: Neutral: W: 1: 0: ng Nigeria: 55,686: 4-2-3-1: Match Report: 2010-06-17: 13:30: Group stage: Thu: Neutral: W: 4: 1: kr Korea Republic: 82,174: 4-3-2 ...
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