21.   Failure to do so would make them the first World Cup host to get knocked out in the first stage of the competition.

22.   FIFA had originally planned to select the first Asian hosts for the finals in June next year.

23.   The parasites would have jumped from a first host, the snake, to infect another host, the tadpole.

24.   They were the first batch toban hosts.

25.   Japan will also face Russia and Tunisia and are desperate to avoid becoming the first hosts in World Cup history to bow out in the first round.

26.   The Japanese are determined not to become the first hosts in World Cup history to bow out in the group stage,

27.   The president of the Argentinian football federation Julio Grondona said he was delighted by the selection of Buenos Aires, hoping to become the first ever South American hosts.