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Prominent Players of the 2010 Football World Cup

Here is a list of possible stars at the 2010 FIFA World Cup...

Many of the past great players won't be appearing, but there are many new faces, highly ranked new players who will be playing with some of the older, more experienced counterparts.

The Best Rated Football Players at the Start of the 2010 FIFA World Cup:
Bastian Schweinsteiger	"Kaká" Ricardo Izecson dos Santos Leite	David Beckham
Mario Gómez García	"Lúcio" Lucimar Ferreira da Silva	Frank Lampard
Miroslav Klose	Gilberto Aparecido da Silva	Wayne Rooney
Philipp Lahm	"Alex" Alexandre Raphael Meschini	Steven Gerrard
"Deco" Anderson Luís de Souza	"Robinho" Róbson de Souza	Didier Drogba
Ricardo Carvalho	"Kléberson" José Kléberson Pereira	"Kwadwo" Kojo Asamoah
Cristiano Ronaldo	Marcelo Vieira da Silva Júnior	Samuel Eto'o
Florent Malouda	"Adriano" Adriano Leite Ribeiro	Carles Puyol
Thierry Daniel Henry	"Ronaldinho" Ronaldo de Assis Moreira	Sergio Ramos
Franck Bilal Ribéry	Mark van Bommel	Iker Casillas
Patrick Vieira	Wesley Sneijder	Diego López
Fabio Cannavaro	Robin van Persie	Pablo Hernández
Gianluca Zambrotta	Arjen Robben	Fernando Torres
Alberto Gilardino	Giovanni van Bronckhorst	David Silva
Giuseppe Rossi	Rafael van der Waart	...
Hernán Crespo	Dirk Kuyt	...

The Groups of the World Cup

There are 8 groups from A to H this year and here is the distribution of the teams in each one.

The order of teams is according to FIFA's officially published information, not to alphabetical order.

A	B	C	D
South Africa [host]	Argentina	England	Germany
Mexico	Nigeria	United States	Australia
Uruguay	Korea Republic/South Korea	Algeria	Serbia
France	Greece	Slovenia	Ghana
Netherlands	Italy	Brazil	Spain
Denmark	Paraguay	Korea DPR/North Korea	Switzerland
Cameroon	New Zealand	Côte d'Ivoire/Ivory Coast	Honduras
Japan	Slovakia	Portugal	Chile

Participating Football Teams and Their Coaches

All participating countries by region are listed below in the table. To the right of each country name is the coach name with his own national flag. Notice the large number of Argentine and German coaches.

Teams by Region:	Coach:
North & Central America (CONCACAF)
Honduras	Reinaldo Rueda
Mexico	Javier "El Vasco" Aguirre
United States	Bob Bradley
South America (CONMEBOL)
Argentina	Diego Maradona
Brazil	Carlos "Dunga" Caetano Bledorn Verri
Chile	Marcelo Bielsa
Paraguay	Gerardo Daniel "Tata" Martino
Uruguay	Oscar Tabarez
Europe (UEFA)
Denmark	Morten Olsen
England	Fabio Capello
France	Raymond Domenech
Germany	Joachim "Jogi" Löw"
Greece	Otto Rehhagel
Italy	Marcello Lippi
Netherlands	Lambertus "Bert" van Marvijk
Portugal	Carlos Queiroz
Serbia	Radomir Antiæ
Slovakia	Vladimír Weiss
Slovenia	Matjaž Kek
Spain	Vicente del Bosque
Switzerland	Ottmar Hitzfeld
Africa (CAF)
Algeria	Rabah Saâdane
Cameroon	Paul Le Guen
Côte d'Ivoire/Ivory Coast	Vahid Halilhodžiæ
Ghana	Milovan Rajevac
Nigeria	Shaibu Amodu
South Africa [host]	Carlos Alberto Parreira
Asia & Australia (AFC)
Australia	Pim Verbeek
Japan	Takeshi Okada
Korea DPR/North Korea	Kim Jong-Hun
Korea Republic/South Korea	Hu Jung-Moo
Oceania (OFC)
New Zealand	Ricki Herbert