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I was a boy when North Korea last qualified for soccer’s fut 14 ps4 coins. It was 1966, the tournament was being played in England, and the proceedings of school speech day were interrupted by an announcement that the Hermit Kingdom’s eleven were leading a powerful Portugal team by three goals to nil after 22 minutes in the quarter finals. And that after beating heavily favored Italy in the previous round.

This was stunning news; almost fairy-tale stuff and as unlikely as the fact that the North Korean team, 1,000-1 outsiders when the tournament started, was even in the country, let alone playing a World Cup quarter final. The Korean war ceasefire was only 13 years passed and London didn’t have diplomatic relations with Pyongyang. It tiny austere team seemed so incongruous in the era of Swinging Sixties Britain. The newspapers dubbed them The Red Mosquitoes.

The 2010 World Cup finals, in South Africa, will again put the secretive Communist state’s soccer team on the world stage. The soccer gods are nothing if not impish: For the first time both North and South Korea have qualified for the finals.

North Korea’s 0-0 draw against Saudi Arabia in Riyadh on June 17th gave it the point needed to ensure a trip to South Africa next year on goal difference. South Korea, a worldly old hand at World Cup soccer, had already wrapped up its seventh successive qualification, though its 1-1 draw with Iran in the final round of qualifying games meant North Korea needed to kaufen fifa 14 coins — those impish soccer goods, again.

Not that fans back in North Korea might have known much about all this as it unfolded. No desperate, nail-biting minutes watching the clock tick down and hoping the team could hang on for the draw. There is no live coverage of sports, or much else, in the country. The sole channel, the state broadcaster, may show censored highlights in a day or two, though word of the great draw was broadcast within a few hours of the final whistle–lightening speed for the state-run channel.

With few international sporting triumphs to boast of, the Dear Leader’s regime is sure, between nuclear bomb testings, to milk World Cup qualification for all the propaganda advantage it can, especially in a country, by all reports, passionate about the sport.

The prospect of both teams from the Korean peninsula facing each other in the Finals in South Africa is a long shot. The form book says neither will get beyond the first stage, which comprises eight round robin groups in which they will be kept apart: the South ranks 46th on the FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking, the North 106th.

Their encounters in the qualifying rounds, when they met four times overall, were anything but routine. The home fixtures for the North were played in Shanghai on FIFA’s orders after the North refused to allow the South’s flag be flown or its anthem played in Pyongyang. Both games ended scoreless.

The second return match in Seoul, a late-snatched 1-0 victory for the hosts, was followed by accusations from the North that the team’s food had been poisoned before the game and that the referee had denied it a legitimate goal. In six qualifying games between the two over three World Cups, the North has yet to beat the South; and it has only beaten it twice in all 16 games they have played (North Korea’s women, on the other hand, have a 7-1-0 record against the South).

In 1966, the North Korean team’s fairy-tale progress in the World Cup came to an abrupt end when a Eusebio-inspired Portugal scored five goals in the second half of that quarter final to take the game 5-3, and send North Korea back into World Cup isolation for more than four decades. What face it will show to the world when it reemerges in South Africa next year, and what aspects of the world will be allowed to filter back in to North Korea, one can only guess.

South Korea is considering bidding to host the 2022 World Cup finals, and not, as it did in 2002 jointly with Japan. Might by then there be one Korean team? Or is that the stuff of schoolboy dreams? You can click coininfifa.com/fifa-14-ps4-coins.html to read more