In the CONCACAF qualification tournament for the 2014 FIFA World Cup, Canada was seeded into Group D with threeother teams:
France are in qualifying Group A along with hosts South Africa, former winners Uruguay and CONCACAF Champions Mexico.
The Netherlands were in the same qualifying group as Norway, Scotland, Macedonia and Iceland.
All of the international teams play the qualifying tournament to see which teams move on to the world cup.
Teams participated in various qualifying games, such as regional tournaments and matches against other national teams, to secure a spot in the 2018 World Cup.
The field started for the 2010 World Cup with 204 countries. In 2 years of qualifying it was reduced to the 32 teams that will play in South Africa.
FULL LIST OF TEAMS AT 2010 WORLD CUPHOSTS: South AfricaAFRICA QUALIFYING: Ghana, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, CameroonASIA QUALIFYING: Australia, Japan, North Korea, South KoreaEUROPE QUALIFYING: Denmark, England, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, SwitzerlandSOUTH AMERICA QUALIFYING: Brazil, Paraguay, Chile, ArgentinaNORTH, CENTRAL AMERICA AND QUALIFYING: United States, Mexico, HondurasASIA/OCEANIA PLAY-OFF New Zealand
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The Group B teams are : Argentina Nigeria Korea Greece
In basic teams who do not automatically qualify (those who are always qualifying at this time are the founders of the RWC)play other teams in their group - the over all winner in the fist stages move to second stage where they are pooled and play again against other pool winners. This continues until they ahave the remaining 24 teams. These are the teams that will play in the finals.
Canada for one, if you mean soccer