Argentina beat Uruguay 26-0 in Buenos Aires on Saturday to safely qualify for the 2007 World Cup in France.
The Pumas, who have appeared in all five previous editions of the World Cup, scored two unanswered tries by wing Miguel Avramovic to join France, Ireland and two more teams still to qualify in Pool D next year.
Uruguay, who have played at the last two World Cups, host Chile on July 22 with the loser bowing out and the winner advancing to a playoff against either Canada or the United States.
Canada play the U.S. on Wednesday to decide the second of the three regional qualifiers from the Americas. The third qualifier will be the winner of the playoff.
The eight quarterfinalists from the last World Cup in 2003 - England, Australia, New Zealand, France, South Africa, Wales, Ireland and Scotland - were all given automatic places in the 2007 event.
Argentina are the third team to seal their place through qualifying, joining Fiji and Samoa from Oceania.
2 comments:
If you thought it was disgusting for Argentina to lose in a shootout, what about Italy's winning the trophy in a shootout? That should be outlawed! :-/
I agree...shootouts should be outlawed. They need to come up with something different.
And France played better, too! That's what rots about the penalty shots--doesn't matter how you played for two hours...it comes down to who gets lucky!
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