South Korea, Australia close on World Cup spots

SINGAPORE, June 19 Asian giants Iran, South Korea and Australia scrambled into next year's World Cup on Tuesday after scenes of crowd anger and high tension on the final night of group qualifying. Irate South Korean fans hurled water bottles and ...

The curtain was brought down on Asia's mammoth, 24-month qualifying campaign for the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil, with Australia, Korea Republic and Iran progressing from Tuesday's closing matchday to join Japan at next year's global showpiece. ...

BEIJING, June 19 (Xinhua) -- Following are the results from the Asian zone's final World Cup group qualifiers on Tuesday: Group A At Ulsan South Korea 0 Iran 1 (Reza Ghoochannejhad 60) At Tashkent Uzbekistan 5 (Bahodir Nasimov 60, 74, Oleg ...

(Reuters) Uzbekistan rallied to beat Qatar 5-1 at home but still fell short of an automatic qualifying spot for the 2014 World Cup finals on Tuesday. Uzbekistan were pushed into third place in Asian qualifying Group A, behind Iran and South ...

In the end it didn't matter. Australia could have, had it owned a crystal ball, relaxed and played out a scoreless draw with a hard-to-break-down Iraq at ANZ Stadium and gone through to Brazil 2014. Holger Osieck's men could even have lost and ...

Iran and South Korea have scrambled into the 2014 FIFA World Cup after scenes of crowd anger and high tension on the final night of group qualifying. Celebration time ... Iran are back in the big time after beating South Korea. Source: Kim Do-hun / ...

Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- Korea Republic took a huge step towards an eighth consecutive FIFA World Cup finals appearance as Akmal Shorakhmedov's first-half own goal secured a 1-0 win over Uzbekistan on Tuesday to leave the Taeguk ...

Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- Uzbekistan national football team claimed a 2-1 victory of China in an away friendly match on Thursday, 6 June 2013. Yongpo Wang opened the score on 32 minutes of the match, but Ulugbek Bakaev netted equalizer ...