Japan are the first named team to get through the qualifying stages and will be joining Brazil in the World Cup next summer. Japan made it through their group stages with wins against Latvia and Canada. They lost two games and on 4/06/2013 scored a last minute penalty to draw with Australia taking them through.

Japan has some great players, one of these being Shinji Kagawa. The Manchester United striker has had an up and down season, with some great goals but his knee injury has often got in the way of his fantastic form. It now comes down to the second automatic qualifying spot. This is out of Australia who currently sits in third place, Iraq, Jordan and Oman. The Fifa World Cup 2014 will feature 32 teams altogether, one of these was given to hosts Brazil but the defending champions Spain will be fighting for their place. There is now only 30 places left after Japan took the second spot.

We will see many new 13-14 World Cup kits in the tournament next year hopefully including the brand new England Home kit. It will be interesting to see whether any surprising teams reach the quarters and beyond. The teams who have won the World Cup in the past include Spain, England, Italy, Brazil, Argentina, Germany, France and Uruguay. The England national team played reasonably well during their friendly match with Brazil, nobody really thought England would get a win out of the match but they took the lead in the second half and dominated Brazil in their own half. The England team doesn't seem as strong as it was a few years back , the youth have a long way to go but England are a progressing team and that showed against Brazil.

Italy are another team sitting comfortably at the top of their group, unsurprisingly Germany have definitely wrapped up their place with 5 wins and 1 draw, Spain, Argentina, Switzerland, Belgium and Croatia are all sitting at the top or in second place in their tables. Next year's World Cup could turn out to be an interesting one if we have some shock results in the group stages.

Who do you think will be next to qualify for the World Cup 2014? Which World Cup Kits would you like to see next year? Let us know your thoughts.

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