*--* CONCACAF QUALIFYING FINAL Team W L...
*--* CONCACAF QUALIFYING FINAL Team W L T Pts GF GA Diff. Mexico 7 2 1 22 22 9 +13 United States 7 2 1 22 16 6 +10 Costa Rica 5 4 1 17 15 14 +1 Trinidad & Tobago 4 5 1 13 10 15 -5 Guatemala 3 5 2 11 16 18 -2 Panama 0 8 2 2 4 21 -17 * Wednesday’s results: United States 2, Panama 0; Guatemala 3, Costa Rica 1; Trinidad and Tobago 2, Mexico 1.
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*--* GERMANY ’06 FIELD Teams that have qualified for the 2006 World Cup, with automatic berths per region in parentheses: * Africa (5) -- Angola, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Togo, Tunisia. * Asia (4) -- Iran, Japan, Saudi Arabia, South Korea. * CONCACAF (3) -- Costa Rica, Mexico, United States. * Europe (14) -- Croatia, England, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Serbia and Montenegro, Sweden, Ukraine. * South America (4) -- Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, Paraguay. Note: The remaining three European teams will be decided by home-and-home series pairing six teams that finished second in their groups: Czech Republic, Norway, Turkey, Slovakia, Spain and Switzerland, The final two berths will go to winners of playoff series featuring Trinidad and Tobago (CONCACAF’s fourth-place finisher) vs. Bahrain (Asia’s fifth-place finisher); and Uruguay (South America’s fifth-place finisher) vs. Australia (Oceana champion).
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