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2010 World Cup Team Previews: South Africa

Matt Martz weighs in with his 2010 World Cup insider betting guide and World Cup 2010 Preview for the host nation South Africa. We will also have game by game Free World Cup soccer predictions and more.

World Cup 2010 Team Spotlight – South Africa

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The WORLD CUP FINALS had their final draw on Dec 4th, 2009. 32 teams were picked out of their respective pots and we now know the matchups for World Cup 2010 in South Africa. Need predictions for South Africa?

Our analysis indicates the hosts will do well to escape from a Group A that also includes Mexico and previous FIFA World Cup winners France and Uruguay.

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Not only is South Africa carrying the weight of hosting the first World Cup on African soil, the Bafana Bafana will feel the pressure to qualify for the round of 16, as no host nation has ever failed to advance past the opening round.

Group A: France, Mexico, South Africa and Uruguay

South Africa – FIFA Ranking: 86
South Africa Odds to win World Cup: +12500

Matchups:
Jun 11 vs. Mexico,
Jun 16 vs. Uruguay
Kim 22 vs. France

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As the hosts, South Africa gained automatic qualification, but South Africa still went through the qualification process, and was knocked out in the Second Round. The team will look to take some of the experience they gained from reaching the semifinals of the 2009 Confederations Cup, also hosted in the country last summer, into this year’s FIFA World Cup.

Newly appointed boss, Brazilian Carlos Alberto Parreira, will be at the helm as he searches to regain the respect he has lost after coaching Brazil to a World Cup victory in 1994.

Much of the side’s success will depend on the efforts both captain Aaron Mokoena, a physical defender, and talented midfield maestro Steven Pienaar of Everton. Pienaar has quickly become South Africa’s star player in the absence of the country’s most successful striker, Benni McCarthy, who has been frozen out of the international set-up following an altercation with former national team boss Joel Santana.

Pienaar has reinvented himself since his stint at Everton and should be able to bring confidence and leadership the to the entire squad. His performances during the FIFA Confederations Cup prove that he will play a vital role in any South African success in 2010. Bet on Soccer at Sportsbook.com

The team will also rely heavily on the unsung heroics of versatile, hard working and resilient back Siboniso Gaxa, and Tsepho Masilela, a winger who strikes fear into opponents with his rampaging forays down the left-hand side.

South Africa has failed to make it beyond the group stages in both of their previous FIFA World Cup appearances. Their first appearance was in France 1998, and despite a 3-0 loss to the host nation, posted draws with Denmark and Saudi Arabia.

Their next appearance was in 2002 where they were bumped out after the group stage; despite beating Slovenia 1-0 for their first-ever FIFA World Cup win. Fortunately for them soccer is played out on the pitch and not on paper.

I expect South Africa will have a very tough time of advancing out of this group, but there is a first time for everything and there can be no greater motivation than representing their country in a FIFA World Cup on home soil.

The one intangible advantage is that they will have the support of the home crowd.

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Matt Martz is a sportswriter for the Bakersfield Californian located in Central California. “ Football (soccer) is a game in which a handful of fit men run around for one and a half hours watched by millions of people who could really use the exercise.”

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