Football Round-up: Chelsea Stars Around The World.

Nigeria beat World Cup host nation South Africa 2-0 with John Mikel Obi, who crossed for the second goal, playing the full game.

Wayne Bridge was the only Chelsea member of Fabio Capello's squad not rested for the trip to the Caribbean to play Trinidad and Tobago. He was on-field for the first 83 minutes of a 3-0 friendly win and it was he that crossed for Gareth Barry to open the scoring.

France could only manage a 0-0 with Paraguay in Toulouse. Raymond Domenech picked a side likely to be close to their Euro 2008 opening line-up. Claude Makelele and Florent Malouda both started while Nicolas Anelka was a 63rd minute sub for Lyon's young phenomenon, Karim Benzema. Makelele made way for former Chelsea player Lassana Diarra at half-time.

Ricardo Carvalho, Paulo Ferreira and new Chelsea player, Jose Bosingwa, were all starters as Portugal head for Switzerland and Austria in good heart after a 2-0 win over Georgia. Carvalho nearly scored when he hit the crossbar during the match.

Back in Africa, qualification for the 2010 World Cup is already fully underway. Ghana, with Michael Essien, made a solid start on Sunday with a 3-0 win at home to Libya.

Ivory Coast beat Mozambique 1-0. Neither Didier Drogba nor Salomon Kalou were present though.

At the weekend, an England Under 19 squad containing Chelsea youth/reserve team stars Scott Sinclair, Jack Cork (who captained the side) and Ryan Bertrand made it through to this summer's European Championship finals in the Czech Republic.

Miroslav Stoch will not be joining his Chelsea youth team-mates as Slovakia Under 19's could only finish third in their elite round qualification group.