Monday, October 10, 2005

Soccer summary: World Cup Qualifying

-Contributed by Erwin Cifuentes. Ecuador and Paraguay secured their tickets to next year’s World Cup after the penultimate round of games this weekend. Uruguay remains in the final playoff spot due to their 0-0 tie with Ecuador, though the “charruas” are only one point ahead of Chile and Colombia and four points in front of Venezuela. Meanwhile, Costa Rica qualified to the World Cup with a 3-0 thrashing of the U.S. In spite oftheir loss to Mexico Saturday night. Guatemala can stillmake the last playoff spot if they win their final game later this weekand Trinidad and Tobago loses.

2 comments:

Erwin C. said...

Correction: Venezuela are FOUR points behind Uruguay. Thus, they are mathematically eliminated from reaching the playoff spot. Sorry!

Taylor Kirk said...

Yay Ticos!!! (Even though it was out butts they whooped) :/