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.