Europe
30 teams entered the qualifying tournament which was held over three rounds between 28 September 1996 and 5 December 1998. England, Ireland, Italy, Romania, Scotland, and Spain qualified for RWC 1999. Georgia, Netherlands and Portugal qualified for repechage.
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Famous quotes containing the word europe:
“I’ve come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version.”
—Don Delillo (b. 1926)
“Of one thing I can assure you with comparative certainty, whoever wins, Europe will be economically ruined. This war is America’s great opportunity.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)
“The city is recruited from the country. In the year 1805, it is said, every legitimate monarch in Europe was imbecile. The city would have died out, rotted, and exploded, long ago, but that it was reinforced from the fields. It is only country which came to town day before yesterday, that is city and court today.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)