Soccer World Cup 2010 / Slovakia

This article covers the Slovak national football team at the 2010 World Cup .

qualification

The Slovak team qualified as group winners of Group 3 for the World Cup in South Africa through the qualifying matches of the European football association UEFA, and in 2010 they took part in a World Cup finals for the first time.

In the first round of qualification, Slovakia faced Slovenia , the Czech Republic , Northern Ireland , Poland and San Marino . Slovakia won seven of the ten games. One match ended in a draw, the team lost two more games.

Group opponents San Marino, who conceded 47 goals in ten games and finished last, scored their only goal of the entire qualification in their 3-1 defeat against Slovakia.

First round

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	Slovakia	22:10	22nd
2	Slovenia	18: 4	20th
3	Czech Republic	17: 6	16
4th	Northern Ireland	13: 9	15th
5	Poland	19:14	11
6th	San Marino	1:47	0

September 6, 2008 : Slovakia - Northern Ireland 2-1 (0-0)

September 10, 2008 : Slovenia - Slovakia 2: 1 (1: 0)

October 11, 2008 : San Marino - Slovakia 1: 3 (1: 2)

October 15, 2008 : Slovakia 2-1 Poland (0-0)

April 1, 2009 : Czech Republic - Slovakia 1: 2 (1: 1)

June 6, 2009 : Slovakia - San Marino 7-0 (5-0)

September 5, 2009 : Slovakia - Czech Republic 2: 2 (0: 0)

9 September 2009 : Northern Ireland - Slovakia 0: 2 (0: 1)

October 10, 2009 : Slovakia 0-2 Slovenia (0-0)

October 14, 2009 : Poland 0-1 Slovakia (0-1)

Slovak contingent

No.	Surname	Club before the start of the World Cup	birthday	Games	Gates
goalkeeper
1	Ján Mucha	Legia Warsaw	05.12.1982	4th	0	1	0	0
12	Dušan Perniš	Dundee United	11/28/1984	0	0	0	0	0
23	Dušan Kuciak	FC Vaslui	May 21, 1985	0	0	0	0	0
Defender
2	Peter Pekarík	VfL Wolfsburg	10/30/1986	3	0	1	0	0
3	Martin Škrtel	Liverpool FC	December 15, 1984	4th	0	1	0	0
4th	Marek Čech	West Bromwich Albion	01/26/1983	1	0	0	0	0
5	Radoslav Zabavník	1. FSV Mainz 05	09/16/1980	3	0	0	0	0
16	Ján Ďurica	Hannover 96	December 10, 1981	4th	0	0	0	0
21st	Kornel Saláta	ŠK Slovan Bratislava	January 24, 1985	1	0	0	0	0
22nd	Martin Petráš	AC Cesena	11/02/1979	1	0	0	0	0
midfield player
6th	Zdeno Štrba	Skoda Xanthi	06/09/1976	3	0	2	0	0
7th	Vladimír Weiss	Bolton Wanderers	11/30/1989	3	0	0	0	0
8th	Ján Kozák	FC Timișoara	04/22/1980	1	0	0	0	0
10	Marek Sapara	MKE Ankaragücü	07/31/1982	1	0	0	0	0
15th	Miroslav Stoch	FC Twente Enschede	October 19, 1989	4th	0	0	0	0
17th	Marek Hamšík	SSC Naples	07/27/1987	4th	0	0	0	0
19th	Juraj Kucka	Sparta Prague	02/26/1987	3	0	1	0	0
20th	Kamil Kopúnek	FC Spartak Trnava	05/18/1984	2	1	1	0	0
striker
9	Stanislav Šesták	VfL Bochum	December 16, 1982	2	0	0	0	0
11	Róbert Vittek	MKE Ankaragücü	04/01/1982	4th	4th	1	0	0
13	Filip Hološko	Beşiktaş Istanbul	January 17, 1984	2	0	0	0	0
14th	Martin Jakubko	Saturn Ramenskoye	02/26/1980	1	0	0	0	0
18th	Erik Jendrišek	1. FC Kaiserslautern	10/26/1986	3	0	0	0	0
Trainer
	Vladimír Weiss		09/22/1964

Preliminary round

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	Paraguay	3: 1	5
2	Slovakia	4: 5	4th
3	New Zealand	2: 2	3
4th	Italy	4: 5	2

In the preliminary round of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, the Slovak national soccer team met in Group F against Italy , Paraguay and New Zealand . After they had to accept the equalizer in stoppage time in the opening game against New Zealand and lost to Paraguay, the return flight home was already booked. With a sensational victory against defending champion and group favorite Italy, they made it to second place and thus to the round of 16.

• Tuesday June 15, 2010; 1.30 p.m. in Rustenburg New Zealand - Slovakia 1: 1 (0: 0)
  

• Sunday June 20, 2010; 1:30 p.m. in Mangaung / Bloemfontein Slovakia - Paraguay 0: 2 (0: 1)
  

• Thursday June 24, 2010; 4:00 p.m. in Johannesburg (Ellis Park Stadium) Slovakia - Italy 3: 2 (1: 0)
  

Final round

Round of 16

The Slovak team qualified second in Group F for the round of 16 and met the Netherlands , the winners of Group E. The game was lost 2-1.

• Monday June 28, 2010; 16:00 in Durban Netherlands - Slovakia 2: 1 (1: 0)
  

Web links

• All matches in the preliminary round at a glance ( memento from September 29, 2010 on the Internet Archive ) on FIFA.com