The Road To South Africa

After reviewing Solomon Island's achievements in their 2006 World Cup campaign, it's now time to look forward to the future. As much as I enjoy reminiscing about 2004, 2 years have already passed and it would be naive to judge ourselves based on what happened in one particular tournament. If we're truly as good a team as we Solomon Islanders tend to believe, then the upcoming Nation's Cup should prove that.

Just to clear things up, the Nations Cup has been incorporated into the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifying stages. And, today we're going to take a look at that.

Once again, the football website planetworldcup.com, and in particular, columnist Paul Marcuccitti has covered this in detail. I must say, given Australia's departure from the Oceania Football Confederation, it's good to see an independent website still taking an interest in what goes down in this small region. Major props to Paul and planetworldcup.com.

Here are the links:
From FIFA's official website, the 2010 format is covered briefly:
Oceania alters format for FIFA World Cup qualifiers

Form planetworldcup.com, Paul Marcuccitti covers the format in great detail and gives a few of his opinions on the whole thing:
Wrap-Up: Oceania qualification series