Australia won the second leg of the play-offs to the Fifa World Cup in Germany in 2006 against Urugay.

They won the game 1-0 and qualified at the penalty shoot-outs with 4-2.
It seems like Germany is really good for the Aussies, since their last appearance at a World Cup was in 1974, in Germany.
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Their […]

All the above teams qualified:
Czech Republic beat Norway 1-0, Spain drew 1-1 with Slovakia and, in a dramatic match, Swiss lost 4-2 in Turkey (4-4 on aggregate, Switzerland qualifies on away goals).

Trinidad & Tobago won their last game in the play-offs with 0-1. This way, with 2-1 on aggregate, they go to Germany.

Well, some analysis before Wednesday games is required.
Spain crushed Slovakia. A 5-1 score line makes any comment unnecessary. One thing, though, is that, finally, Liverpool’s Luis Garcia steps up and delivers the performance all of us saw possible when he scored a sensational goal against Bayern Munich in the Champions League.
Czechs seem to cruise, since […]

These are the results on the first leg of the play-off matches for the World Cup Final in Germany, 2006:

Norway - Czech Republic: 0-1
Switzerland - Turkey: 2-0
Uruguay - Australia: 1 - 0
Spain - Slovakia: 5 - 1
Trinidad & Tobago - Bahrain: 1 - 1
As you can see, Czech Republic and Spain took quite an advantage over […]

In order for the Uruguay players to have more times to recover, they asked for the match to be played earlier than its initial start hour (9pm local time, 11pm GMT).
FIFA decided that the start hour should be 6pm local time, though Australia didn’t initially wanted to play earlier than 7pm.
Source: noticias.info

Good news for the Czech team before the play-off matches: Nedved, their best football player is back in the team. Having been gone for the entire qualifying group matches, because of injury and feeling that he has to focus more on his club team, Juventus Torino, Nedved finally comes back

to bring his talent and help […]

While all the odds are against Slovakia, Spain’s adversary in the qualifying play-off, you have to agree that a team like Spain should have never had to go through something like that. Even they agree on that:

Whatever follows over the next week, both Xavi and Vicente agree that Spain should not have allowed themselves to […]

Thirteen more teams qualified for next year’s World Cup, with England, Italy and Netherlands leading the way in Europe.
So, a lot more teams made it to the finals in Germany.
Here is a list of the teams already qualified:

Germany
Ukraine
England
Italy
Netherlands
Portugal
Croatia
Poland
Togo
Ghana
Ivory Coast
Tunisia
Angola
Brasil
Argentina
Paraguay
Ecuador
Mexico
USA
Iran
Japan
Saudi Arabia
South Korea

There are some more games to be played, the playoffs, but half of the […]

In completion to our series of articles on the chances of teams qualifying for the World Cup in Germany, you can read this article written by Reuters.