Cape Verde Islands vs Tunisia live stream soccer video sopcast online on HD TV

Cape Verde Islands vs Tunisia live stream soccer video sopcast online on HD TV

Time and Date:09/06/12 16:30 Local Time   

Status:LIVE

Venue:Praia

Qualification history

Cape Verde Islands vs Tunisia live

Morocco ended Tunisia’s first FIFA World Cup™ qualifying campaign – the preliminaries for Chile 1962 – by edging a replay after a two-legged tie had failed to separate the north African rivals. History repeated itself eight years later, with the Moroccans prevailing in a one-match play-off to decide which of them would go through to the last phase, the Atlas Lions eventually going on to the world finals for the first time in their history.

In the qualifiers for Germany 1974, Tunisia overcame Egypt in the first round, only to lose to Côte d’Ivoire. The Eagles of Carthage redeemed themselves at the next opportunity, however, exacting revenge on Morocco in a penalty shootout to make their maiden world finals appearance at Argentina 1978. They failed to return to the big stage in their next four attempts, a barren spell ended by successive qualifications for France 1998, Korea/Japan 2002 and Germany 2006. The Tunisians looked all set to keep the run going at South Africa 2010, but after earning a seemingly decisive draw away to Nigeria they lost their final game in Mozambique and fell a point short of qualification.

FIFA World Cup finals history
Tunisia have taken part in the world’s greatest football competition on four occasions, the first and most successful of them coming at Argentina 1978. They became the first African outfit to win a FIFA World Cup finals match when they saw off Mexico 3-1 in their opening match in Group 2, their one and only victory in the competition to date. Defeat to Poland followed and though they earned a creditable 0-0 draw against reigning world champions West Germany, the Tunisians failed to make the next round.

In each of their three subsequent appearances they have drawn one game and lost two. The pattern began at France 1998, where a 1-1 stalemate with Romania followed defeats to England and Colombia. At Korea/Japan 2002 Tunisia’s solitary point came against Belgium and was sandwiched by defeats to Russia and Japan, and in Germany four years later they kicked off with a 2-2 draw against Saudi Arabia before coming unstuck against Spain and Ukraine.

The current crop
The Eagles of Carthage are in danger of missing out on the CAF Africa Cup of Nations for the first time in 20 years. Drawn into a seemingly straightforward five-team qualifying group with Botswana, Togo, Chad and Malawi, Sami Trabelsi’s charges fell to a surprise 1-0 home loss to the Botswanans in their first match. Wins over Chad and Togo came either side of a home draw with Malawi, but were followed by another reverse at the hands of the Zebras, who have already won the section. Tunisia’s only remaining hope of reaching Gabon/Equatorial Guinea 2012 is to finish as one of the best second-placed teams.

The key players
Issam Jemaa, Amine Charmiti, Oussama Darragi.

Coach: Sami Trabelsi
Best performance in a FIFA competition: FIFA U-17 World Cup Korea 2007 (Round of 16)
Former stars: Faouzi Benzarti, Sami Trabelsi, Youssef Zouaoui

Qualification history 
Cape Verde Islands have made significant strides in recent times despite being a relatively new team, their FIFA World Cup™ qualifiers debut only coming in the Korea/Japan 2002 preliminaries. Proof of that has come in the last two qualification tournaments. After reaching the final phase in the Germany 2006 competition, they acquitted themselves well again on the road to South Africa 2010, overcoming Tanzania and Mauritius, and finishing just behind Cameroon in the second round.

The current crop
With virtually all of their internationals playing their club football overseas, Cape Verde Islands have good reason to believe a lasting place in the African elite lies ahead, especially if their strong showing so far in the qualifiers for the 2012 CAF Africa Cup of Nations is anything to go by. “It’s the first time I’ve felt this kind of expectation in the national team,” their upbeat coach Lucio Antunes told FIFA.com recently.

The key players
Youngsters Varela and Stopira and the more seasoned Nando are the mainstays of a well-drilled defence, while old hand Lito is still a force to be reckoned with up front, where Babanco and Nhuck have increasingly been among the goals of late.

Coach: Lucio Antunes.
Best performance in a FIFA competition: None
Former stars: Dady, Carlos Morais, Cafu