| Team | Goals For | Goals For Average | Matches Played |
 Burkina Faso | 21 | 2.3 | 9 |
 Côte d'Ivoire | 20 | 2.2 | 9 |
 Mali | 17 | 1.9 | 9 |
 Ghana | 16 | 1.8 | 9 |
| Team | Goals For | Goal For Average | Matches Played |
 El Salvador | 36 | 2.4 | 15 |
 Costa Rica | 34 | 2.6 | 13 |
 USA | 33 | 2.5 | 13 |
 Mexico | 24 | 1.8 | 13 |
| Team | GF | GFA | MP |
 England | 26 | 3.7 | 7 |
 Germany | 18 | 3.0 | 6 |
 Bosnia-Herzegovina | 18 | 3.0 | 6 |
 Poland | 18 | 3.0 | 6 |
Wellington's Westpac Stadium has been selected as the host venue for New Zealand's World Cup play-off against Saudi Arabia or Bahrain, announced New Zealand Football (NZF).
North Harbour Stadium and Waikato Stadium also tendered bids to stage the 14 Nov match but Wellington won out because of its bigger capacity.
"With a match of this magnitude we need to give ourselves the best possible chance of qualifying," NZF chief executive Michael Glading said in a statement. "If players feel more comfortable in one venue and we can get an extra 8000 fans playing their part, that could just be the edge needed to realise the dream of reaching the World Cup again."
Saudi Arabia and Bahrain play each other home and away in September with the winner to host New Zealand on 10 Oct before the return leg in Wellington. New Zealand have qualified for the FIFA World Cup™ once, in 1982, but advanced to the play-offs this time after winning the Oceania qualifying division. "This fixture is easily the most important football match ever played in New Zealand," Glading said.
It is one of the many tragedies of the apartheid era in South Africa that footballers from the country were denied a chance to perform on the international stage.Yet there were South Africans who did manage to taste international football, but had to represent other countries to compete at that level.
Hodgson the hero
The first real superstar of South African football was Gordon Hodgson, who played in the country's first-ever international against Northern Ireland in Belfast in 1924.
He later went on to play for Liverpool and England and his record of 17 hat-tricks for Liverpool is yet to be broken.
After World War Two, a flurry of South African footballers left to play in England, almost all of them white, who were members of the racially-segregated national side.
Bill Perry played for England and scored the winning goal in the famous 'Matthews' FA Cup final of 1953 when Blackpool came from behind to beat Bolton Wanderers 4-3.
John Hewie was the first South African to play in a FIFA World Cup. Thanks to his ancestry, he was picked to play for Scotland in Sweden in 1958.
The first black footballers to leave South Africa were Darius Dhlomo and Steve Mokone, who made a major impression at Heracles Almelo in the Netherlands. They were major heroes for the black population, who because of apartheid had few role models in their society.
Later David Julius left South Africa because of apartheid and played at Sporting Lisbon. As 'David Juliao', he was capped by Portugal.
South African Albert Johanneson was the first black player to play in a FA Cup final for Leeds United in 1965.
Colin Viljoen and Brian Stein, whose father was an anti-apartheid activist and had to flee the regime, both played later for England at a time when there was no South African national side to represent.
Roy Wegerle, who competed for the likes of Chelsea, QPR and Luton Town in England's top flight, became an American citizen through his wife and competed at the 1994 and 1998 FIFA World Cup finals. His decision to take up the opportunity to play for the USA came just before South Africa's re-admission into international football.
The forgotten footballers
Names like Pule 'Ace' Ntsoelengoe, Kaizer Motaung and Jomo Sono are legendary in South Africa, but their impact on the international scene is negligible.
Had they, however, been exposed to international audiences and competition, who knows how different their futures and profiles might have been.
Ntsoelengoe, who died last year at the age of 50, is generally regarded as the best ever South African footballer. His career alternated between the colours of Kaizer Chiefs and clubs in the North American Soccer League. Two years ago he was inducted into the US Soccer Hall of Fame.
In the late 1960s and throughout the 70s, the NASL in the USA and Canada was only the outlet for top South African talent and Ntsoelengoe was one of many who crossed the Atlantic Ocean to play in the league.
Sono was an understudy to Pele for New York Cosmos and later helped Toronto Blizzard to win the NASL title.
Motaung was the first South African to go the USA and was named Rookie of the Year in 1968. He later came home and started a new club called Kaizer Chiefs, today the country's best supported team.
Since the end of apartheid, South African footballers have had the same opportunities as the rest of the world and players like Lucas Radebe, Benni McCarthy and Steven Pienaar have been able to compete at the highest level.
Indeed, McCarthy is the only South African international to have won a UEFA Champions League medal, with FC Porto in 2004.
It is a very special day tomorrow, when it will be exactly one year to kick-off of the 2010 FIFA World Cup™ South Africa, the very first on African soil. The second ticketing phase on a first come, first serve basis will continue until 16 November. FIFA Confederations Cup: Ticketing centres will be open until last minute
The final countdown is on: With only four days to the first match of the FIFA Confederations Cup 2009 on 14 June - with the home team South Africa facing Iraq at Ellis Park - there have been already more than 70 % (this corresponds to a figure of 438,000) sold of the total of tickets available. To cater for the expected last-minute surge of demand, tickets can be purchased (even on match days) at:
The ticket centres will be open from 9am-6pm, seven days a week.
To further assist football fans, a Ticketing Call Centre has been established and fans can call 0832010010 to book their seat at the FIFA Confederations Cup. Please be aware, that there will be no ticket sales at the four stadiums.
