it is two miles from spain to africa.
how far is it from spain to africa?
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former legend jomo sono was brought back in a caretaker capacity to lead south africa in korea/japan. placed in group b along with spain, paraguay and debutants slovenia at the 2002 fifa world cup, south africa had high hopes of progressing to the knockout phase of the tournament. after earning a 2–2 draw against paraguay in their opening game with a last-gasp penalty from quinton fortune and following it up with their first ever victory at the finals with a 1–0 win over slovenia, south africa headed into their final game against spain second in the group and 3 points clear of paraguay and slovenia. in arguably the game of the group, in which 5 goals were scored inside the hour, south africa twice came from a goal down in an agonising 3–2 defeat to the spanish. in the other game, which kicked off at the same time as the south africa-spain game, paraguay found themselves beating slovenia 2–1, but the result was not enough for paraguay to surpass south africa in the standings as south africa's goal difference of zero was superior to paraguay's minus one. but south african hearts would be broken. with 84 minutes gone in the slovenia-paraguay game nelson cuevas bagged a vital third goal for paraguay, giving paraguay a 3–1 victory over slovenia. the win left both paraguay and south africa level on 4 points with the late cuevas strike against slovenia lifting paraguay's goal difference to zero, level with south africa's. the deciding factor moved onto a third tiebreaker; goals scored, and as paraguay had scored six goals to south africa's five, they progressed to the round of 16 at the expense of south africa. what made the early exit all the more heartbreaking was that south africa was the only team in the group that managed to hold its own against runaway group winners spain, as both slovenia and paraguay were comfortably cast aside 3–1 by the spanish.
south africa national football team