Why is the FIFA chosen refferres are always partial when an africa country team play against other continent?
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refs are always impartial to the team you root for, lemme guess, you root for African teams.
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A team may play with seven players on the field.  Under FIFA regulations, in an international match, If it drops to six players, the match is abandoned.  It is not considered a valid match.\n\nNational associations may have different rules.
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There are 53 countries in the african federation. 5 countries qualified, 9% of participation.\n\nThere are 10 countries in the south american confederation. 4 countries qualified, 40% of participation (Europe has 27%).\n\nFrom plain proportional representation, south america has the biggest representation, bigger than any other confederation in the world.\n\nI do agree that not a single african country has ever raised the trophy, but I'm sure the qualified teams from that confederation are competitive enough. Remember South America had the chance to send a 5th team to the world cup (Uruguay), they lost against Australia though. From that result, I don't think they deserved to take a 5th (half their confederation) to the World Cup.\n\n4 teams are just fine and they still have a big chance to take the cup, they don't need Chile, Uruguay or Colombia to have a bigger chance. Argentina and Brazil, the strongest in south america, are in.
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FIFA refs were instructed to hand out yellows for basically any hard foul. This was supposed to encourage players to play clean. It backfired in the Portugal - Netherlands game.
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He got suspended by CAF (African Federation) for a red card he received in the Cup of Nations Tournament.  His appeal has been denied.  He was suspended four games, with the first being served in Ghana's final group game of the tournament.  Also, friendlies do not count toward the suspension.
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There is no such thing as a continent playing a World Cup. Maybe you are refering to a country coming from a certain continent. I know for a fact that no country from the continents of Africa and Asia have won a World Cup Championship.
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Hi there!\n\nIt works like this: \n\n"(...)Individual national associations submitted nominations to their confederations. The names of the 44 nominated referees were submitted to FIFA months ago. \nAn arduous process then commenced. According to FIFA "when making (its) decision, the committee members evaluated the performances of the 44 candidates during FIFA competitions, continental championships and in national leagues over the past 18 months. The referees' performances at the two FIFA workshops in Frankfurt were likewise taken into account, as the match officials were subject to close scrutiny from February (12-16) 2005 and again from March (21-25) 2006. At the second workshop, the match officials underwent comprehensive medical checks, as well as a fitness test. In addition, they all completed a psychological test, and members of the FIFA Referees Committee held interviews with the candidate referees." \n\nFollowing below the list of 23 referees chosen to officiate at the 2006 World Cup in Germany:\n\nEssam Abd El Fatah (Egypt) Carlos Amarilla (Paraguay) Benito Archundia (Mexico) Carlos Batres (Guatemala) Massimo Busacca (Switzerland) Coffi Codjia (Benin) Frank De Bleeckere (Belgium) Massimo de Santis (Italy) Horacio Elizondo (Argentina) Valentin Ivanov (Russia) Toru Kamikawa (Japan) Jorge Larrionda (Uruguay) Shamsul Maidin (Singapore) Manuel Mejuto Gonzalez (Spain) Markus Merk (Germany) Lubos Michel (Slovakia) Graham Poll (England) Eric Poulat (France) Peter Prendergast (Jamaica) Oscar Ruiz (Colombia) Mark Shield (Australia) Carlos Simon (Brazil) Kyros Vassaras (Greece).\n\nI just put part of the article for you.\nBut you can have more information on the sites listed in the Sources field, okay!?\n\nCheers,\n\nClaire
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It is possible because Angola had more head-to-head points against Nigeria. Personally, I think Nigeria is a much better team, but that's another subject...\n\n These are the rules FIFA follows in the case of teams tied at the end of qualifiers.\n\nThe first tie-breaker is head-to-head points - not goals. If there are two teams tied, only the two head-to-head home and away games played are taken into consideration. Thus, if Team A wins one and draws one, Team A will have four points and Team B just one. Adding in a Team C, the same concept applies: in this case you add up the points gained from the four matches played by each team against the other two (i.e. for Team A: A v B, B v A, A v C, C v A). So if Team A record two wins, a loss and a draw in those games they will get you a total of seven points.\n\nIf teams are still not separated after taking into account head-to-head points, you must look next at their goal difference in their head-to-head encounters. \n\nIf they are still equal on head-to-head goal difference, then the greater number of goals scored in the head-to-head matches is the deciding factor. Still equal? Next is goal difference in all the group matches, followed by the greater number of goals scored in all the group matches. If none of the above factors can break the stalemate, a play-off game is held on a neutral ground. \n\nGood to note: as per the regulations, away goals are not taken into consideration at all in the 'league system' group stage.
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they are comsidered seprate nations according to FIFA. So they can have their own national team.
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Côte d'Ivoire for sure they played against one of the best team,Argentina and they also scored.Whereas Ghana played against Czechs which is no better team compared to Argentina.I think you find the difference.
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Players don't necessarily wear the numbers of their club for their country.\nWhat happens if two players wear number 12 and play for different clubs, but the same country?\nDuh.
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seeing as all they would do is fight every time they play against a country - not the best option , also FIFA Rules state that every SINGLE country must have a seperate team unless they are like Serbia and Montenegro who are having disagreements about everything(this is teh last time they play as 1 country)
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It depends.\n\nIf you´re talking aboout UEFA using only the European players, or if you´re talking about using the players registered in UEFA.  In the second case, it would then be UEFA, because that´s where all the good ones play.  If u mean only Eurpean players, than the rest of the world is by far the better one.  Because the European leagues have more an more foreign players as starters, and the native players are all relegated to bench players, or even third string.  Take the German league for example, where the only publicized player that is actually German is Ballack, the rest are Brazilian, Egyptian, Iranian, and Marrocan and all sorts of other African nationalities.  THe French league is full of Africans as well as Brazilians, look at 5 time defending champ Lyon...(Juninho Pernambucano, Fred, Chris, Caçapa) 4 Brazilians in their starting lineup, the rest are African, with 2 or 3 french players.  Chelsea, full of Africans and Argentines.  Arsenal, full of French and french African players.  Barcelona(Ronaldinho Gaúcho, Belleti, Thiago Motta, Deco, Sylvinho, Edmilson) all brazilians, Giuly, French, Eto´o Cameroonian, Gio, Dutch, Larsson, Swedish, Messi, Argentine, Maxi Lopez, Argentine, only Puyol and Victor Valdes are actually Spanish on their starting lineup.  Not to mention Real Madrid, which has an all South AMerican team, with four Brazilian nationals.  The list goes on, and also, if you coount world cups per trophies, South America has taken it home more times. Argentina and Uruguay 2 each, Brazil 5=9.  Europe, Italy and Germany 3 each, England and France, 1 each=8.\n\nWorld Club championships, South America 22, Europe 20.\n\nSo the rest of the world is better, but it depends how u look at it, to see how dominant the rest of the world is.
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First off, your nation must be an association in FIFA. There are currently 207 associations in FIFA.\n\nSecond, your team must qualify (until its the host nation, like Germany this year, then you get an automatic bid). Now, the qualification process is different in each zone or continent. In most cases, a team must play anywhere from 10-20 games in the qualification process. However, many nations are eliminated from qualifying after only two games.\n\nEach zone gets a set number of teams to send to the World Cup. For example, Africa got 5. Some zones get "half-teams", like Asia which got 4.5. What they do is the top 4 teams from Asia automatically qualify for the World Cup, the fifth place team must play a home-and-away series against a team from another zone which had a "half-team". The winner of that series qualifies for the World Cup.
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Because America is full of ethnocentric people who think that their way is the only way and should be followed as such. FIFA might as well just ignore the US since we are the only ones hard headed enough to pick up on the fact that football is world-wide, not just an american-born game played on sundays.
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Qualification goes like this:\n\nThe world is divided into regions:\nAsia\nEurope\nAfrica\nConcacaf (North America, Central Am. and Caribian)\nSouth America\nOceania \n\nThen Fifa divides up the 32 possible spots to the regions based on the strenghtn of the region, number of teams, and various political stuff. Some of these are half slots that require a playoff with another region.\n\n\nThen each of the regional confederation determines how to determine which teams will qualify for the spots they have been alloted. \n\nEach region is different and can vary from one cup to the next.  Here is how it went this time around.\n\nEurope - 8 "Random" pools are created and the winners (and next two best teams) qualify and then the second place teams are randomly paired with a home and home deciding who gets the remaing spot\n\nConcacaf has several stages to create a final group of 6 who play round robin with the first 3 qualifying and the 4th going to a playoff with another region.\n\nS. America just has one large pool where everyone plays everyone home and away with the top 4 qualifying and the fifth going to a playoff.\n\nAfrica has 5 groups with the winners of the groups qualifying.\n\nAsia has 3 stages of groups with the final one having 2 groups.  Top two in each qualifiy with the third playing each other for a chance at a playoff with another region\n\nOceania has only a half spot with the top two teams in the final group stage playing each other for the right to play \na team in another region for the right to go to.
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the referee can choose the uniform that he wants but it can not be the same color of any jersey in the game but in a world cup the one who decide it is th eFIFa