“204 nations entered the running for a place at World Cup 2010. From Burundi to Guam to Tahiti, everybody wants to be involved in the planet’s most popular spectacle. ‘Around half the planet watched the 2006 World Cup final,’ writes David Goldblatt in his seminal masterpiece The Ball Is Round. ‘Three billion human beings have never done anything simultaneously before.’ But only 32 nations make the finals. The other 172 can only watch and dream.” (Just-Football)