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ESPN3.com will be showing most of the matches on Friday, Saturday, and Tuesday, and they are usually pretty good about leaving international games up for replays. Check here to see if your favorite European country is playing soon. Or click on Replay to see some older games. (If you have any trouble navigating their site leave a comment and I'll try to help you.)
If you want to see some good games might I suggest Netherlands vs Hungary, Spain vs Czech Republic, or Austria vs. Belgium. I'm making educated guesses on these. So don't hold me to these predictions.
If you want to see a team get run over might I suggest Germany vs Kazakhstan. Although Kazakhstan did hold Germany to 3 goals last time they played. That might not sound great but Germany has scored at least three goals in all their qualifying games except for one.
These games are to narrow the pool of 53 teams down to the 16 that will compete in the 2012 European Championships in Ukraine, and Poland (they're jointly hosting). There are 9 groups the 1st place of each group get in, as do the hosts, so that's 11 spots counted for. The best 2nd place team gets in automatically, the remaining eight 2nd place teams play each other for the remaining 4 spots.
Keep in mind that qualifications for this tournament have been running since the 3rd of September 2010 and will continue until the 11th of October 2011. Although the qualifiers are spread out so as to not interfere with club soccer (i.e. Premier League, Bundesliga).
Well hope you find some great game to watch and hope your team does well...unless they're playing my teams.
Well see you Saturday.
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