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Game no.63 is the match for 3rd place: July11, 2:30 am, Iloilo time, is between Uruguay and Germany

Game no.64 is the match for the champion and 2nd place: July 12, 2:30 am, Iloilo time, is between Netherlands and Spain.

Germany is still favored over Uruguay for the 3rd placer and I think Spain will be the champion but I may be wrong! You can have the complete statistics in FIFA.com . Just click on statistics.

2010 FIFA World Cup Upcoming Games

Quarter Finals

Game No. 59: Argentina vs. Germany – July 3, 10:00 PM Iloilo Time

Game No. 60: Paraguay  vs. Spain – July 4, 2:30 AM Iloilo Time

Semi-Finals

Game No. 61: Uruguay vs. Netherlands – July 7, 2:30 AM Iloilo Time

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Castro Football is measuring past team and player performance and working out the attack and defence ratings of each nation Castro Football calculated how far through the tournament each team is likely to progress.

These information are updated after each round of matches, so you should check Castrol Football statistics for the latest changes and chances!

Official Program for the Inauguration of Benigno S. Aquino III and Jejomar C. Binay as President and Vice President of the Philippines, June 30, 2010, Quirino Grandstand, Rizal Park, Manila, Philippines

Official Program Aquino Inaugural (Excerpts)

2010 FIFA World Cup: Quarter-finals schedule

Game No. 57:  The Netherlands vs. Brazil – July 2, 10:00PM  Iloilo time

Game No. 58: Uruguay  vs. Ghana – July 3, 2:30 AM Iloilo Time

Game No. 59: Argentina vs. Germany – July 3, 10:00 PM Iloilo Time

Game No. 60: Winner of Game 55 (Paraguay   vs. Japan  ) vs.

Winner of Game 56 (Spain  vs. Portugal  ) July 4, 2:30AM Iloilo Time

2010 FIFA World Cup: Matches

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USA fought back from two goals down to earn a battling 2-2 draw with Slovenia and keep their FIFA World Cup™ hopes alive in an exciting Group C clash at Ellis Park.

Matjaz Kek’s men looked on course for a second straight win in the section when they took a 2-0 lead into the break through Valter Birsa and Zlatan Ljubijankic but the Americans hit back as Landon Donovan narrowed the deficit before Michael Bradley equalised eight minutes from time. The result left Slovenia top of Group C with four points ahead of England’s meeting with Algeria later in the day, and ensured the Americans remain undefeated with two draws ahead of their third game against the Algerians.

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An exciting contest opened with Birsa blasting Slovenia into an early lead. There were just 13 minutes on the clock when the midfielder collected the ball some 25 yards from goal and left Tim Howard rooted to the spot with an expertly-guided strike to the goalkeeper’s left. Bradley’s men sought a response and came close when midfielder Francisco Torres fired in an inswinging free-kick from out wide that drew a fingertip save from Samir Handanovic. Donovan then looked set to tap in Clint Dempsey’s low cross only for defender Miso Brecko to get a decisive touch to clear the ball.

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Slovenia looked to be in dreamland in the 42nd minute when Ljubijankic doubled their lead. Milivoje Novakovic played a defence-splitting pass through to Ljubijankic who, with the Americans appealing in vain for offside, slipped the ball coolly past Howard. Yet Donovan threw the Americans a lifeline three minutes after the restart when Bostjan Cesar failed to deal with a ball down the right touchline, allowing the LA Galaxy man a free run into the box. Cutting in from the right, Donovan lashed a superb shot high above Handanovic at the near post.

With the Slovenia defence struggling to cope with the power and aerial strength of the imposing Jozy Altidore, Bradley’s men kept the pressure on and the coach’s son grabbed the US the point their efforts deserved – a father-and-son first in the FIFA World Cup. Altidore nodded a high ball down into the path of the onrushing Borussia Moenchengladbach midfielder and he fired emphatically into the roof of the net. The Americans might even have won the game only for referee Koman Coulibaly to rule out a goal from Maurice Edu, who volleyed home Donovan’s free-kick from the right. There was still time for Novakovic to threaten with a header at the other end but his effort was held comfortably by Howard.

The Celtics were coming out of a timeout with 38.9 seconds to play and clinging to an 87-82 lead when Pierce ran up the sideline and caught a long pass from Kevin Garnett, and without so much as a hitch in his throw as he was falling out-of-bounds, Pierce fired a bullet pass to a streaking Rajon Rondo, who finished the play with a reverse layup.

“I was just showing off my Randy Moss and Tom Brady in one play, that’s all,” Pierce said after torching the Lakers for a team-high 27 points on 12-for-21 shooting. “Going up to catch it, then I went to my Brady move when I was falling out-of-bounds to find Rondo on the receiving end.”

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It was the game-clinching play for the Celtics on a night that saw them make dozens of crucial hustle plays that helped them survive Kobe Bryant‘s offensive onslaught.

“It was all instinctive,” Pierce said. “I took off long, and that was part of the play. We tried to get Ray [Allen] the ball and I think Kevin saw Derek Fisher was on me so he just threw it up. I know I was on the sideline falling out and I turned and I saw Rondo streaking and I was able to it to him and he made a great play.”

Pierce might not have a career as a travel agent, since he’s botched the Celtics’ last two trips he planned — he promised they weren’t going back to LA in this series after they won Game 2, and yet here he is ready to head back to Los Angeles for Games 6 and possibly 7.

But there might some football in his future, if you let him tell it.

“Paul has said for years that he can play for the Patriots,” Celtics coach Doc Rivers joked. “Maybe we might have to believe him.”

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Colorful Lakers forward Ron Artest introduced a new candidate for debate Wednesday, when he spent six confusing minutes trying to explain why he’s so impressed with Glen “Big Baby” Davis, the Celtics’ 6-foot-9, 289-pound bulldozer in baggy shorts.

The gist, after three rugged games in these NBA Finals of trading elbows and body blocks with Big Baby, is that Artest swears he’s never seen a man this big, this nimble, this skilled or this versatile on a basketball court or anywhere else.

“He should have been a football player and a basketball player,” Artest said before going on, “basketball, too, and a boxer. What about rugby? Tennis, a bodyguard, a bouncer, he definitely should bounce … he’s just a great athlete.”

And unique in a league filled with versatile athletes.

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Davis is also a great fit for the Celtics off the bench. During a series in which the Celtics haven’t had their celebrated Big Three-plus one of Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce, Ray Allen and Rajon Rondo put it together simultaneously, Davis has led a bench crew that’s kept the Celtics in the thick of all three games.

Averaging 7.7 points and 4.3 rebounds in his 20 minutes per game, Davis has provided the kind of energy and production off the bench that has helped sustain the Celtics through a series they trail 2-1 heading into Thursday’s ultra critical Game 4 at TD Garden.

He’s come a long way from the struggles he experienced earlier this season. Celtics’ management and coach Doc Rivers were upset when Davis broke his right thumb fighting with a childhood friend just two days before the season opener, a transgression that earned him a suspension.

This is the same Davis who barked at a heckling fan during a road game in Detroit in January and was suspended for a game by the league and admonished by Rivers for being childish. “Glen Davis has to grow up,” Rivers said then.

His performance during this postseason, and particularly these first three games of the Finals, is proof that Davis is ready to permanently retire at least one of his nicknames. (”Big Baby” has to go. but the “Ticket Stub” must remain.) Davis continues to serve as the rock on the court and the surprising voice of reason off of it. He’s doing it in the midst of a wicked rivalry capable of consuming even the most level-headed of participants, too.

How’d he deal with the disappointment of the Celtics dropping Game 3 on their home floor?

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“I got some sleep,” he said. “I watched the film over and over again, I kept rewinding it. I didn’t make bedtime until probably like [3 a.m.]”

What Davis said he saw on film would have been fodder for disciplinary action against the Big Baby. But not the new and improved Glen Davis.

“The refs are some special people,” Davis said smiling. “They’re one of a kind, and it’s hard to be them. I wouldn’t want to be them at all … there’s a lot of things that come into the game of basketball that you have to deal with, but the refs have to take it from everybody.”

Davis is getting universal love these days from just about everybody; friends, foes likes Artest, and even his own coach.

With Game 3, and potentially this series and the Celtics’ season on the line in the fourth quarter Tuesday night, Rivers went with Davis instead of Perkins. Davis responded with a team-high eight points, making all three of his shots, though he was unable to outduel Lakers’ late-game hero Derek Fisher.

When asked if there was something wrong with Perkins or if he just liked what Davis was giving his team, Rivers didn’t hesitate.

“Baby was playing well,” Rivers said. “No conspiracy. Baby was playing well.”

Fine, so maybe we won’t retire the nickname. But all the baggage that comes with it appears to have vanished for this one-of-a-kind young athlete.

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