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FIFA World Cup Draw; Friday 4pm
Topic Started: Dec 3 2013, 08:15 PM (4,846 Views)
Ricky
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The four pots that will determine the draw for the 2014 World Cup have been confirmed by FIFA. The draw will take place this Friday afternoon as everyone anxiously awaits to see who will be this year's group of death and the path their home nation need to take to reach the knock-out stage.

The big news of the day sees the nine unseeded European teams all clustered in the same pot - pot four - while pot two only has seven teams.

The pots will be as follows:

Pot 1 (Seeded Teams)
Brazil
Argentina
Colombia
Uruguay
Belgium
Germany
Spain
Switzerland

Pot 2 (South America and Africa)
Algeria
Cameroon
Cote d'Ivoire
Ghana
Nigeria
Chile
Ecuador

Pot 3 (Concacaf and Asia)
Australia
Iran
Japan
Korea Republic
Costa Rica
Honduras
Mexico
USA

Pot 4 (Europe)
Bosnia-Herzegovina
Croatia
England
France
Greece
Italy
Netherlands
Portugal
Russia

The rules for the draw allow for only two European teams to be in the same group while the other teams cannot be grouped together with teams from their same federations.

Since Chile and Ecuador cannot be in the same group as other South American nations, by rule, these two nations will have to be in the same group as one of the European top seeds.

With pot four containing nine teams, there will be a special accommodation made that will see one of the teams from the pot placed into a special pot in the begining of the draw to even out the groups. This will see one of these teams grouped together with one of the South American top seeds.

Group A
Brazil
Croatia
Mexico
Cameroon

Group B
Spain
Holland
Chile
Australia

Group C
Colombia
Greece
Ivory Coast
Japan

Group D
Uruguay
Costa Rica
England
Italy

Group E
Switzerland
Ecuador
France
Honduras

Group F
Argentina
Bosnia
Iran
Nigeria

Group G
Germany
Portugal
Ghana
USA

Group H
Belgium
Algeria
Russia
South Korea
Edited by Dotty, Dec 6 2013, 06:17 PM.
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Dotty
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How are Switzerland seeded :unsure:
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Papa_Lazarou
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There was quite a good article on the BBC about it. They have basically been clever with their fixtures by not playing many friendlies. If England hadn't played a couple of the pointless friendlies that they did they would have been seeded due to the way the ranking points are acrued.

Same with Italy - their friendly against San Marino forked them over royally. The national FA's should be looking at FIFA ranking points instead of financial gain all the time.
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Ricky
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Belguim too :lol:

It was based on last months rankings, not the current one's. I think Italy are ranked 7th at present and were around 10/11 before
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It's not even done on total points - it's done on an average. That's why, even though Italy destroyed San Marino, they barely got any points for it due to San Marino's ranking. Therefore their average went down by a fair bit.

Here's the article about it:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-25134584

Gives a complete breakdown of how the points are worked out. Every FA should be looking at this and working out their fixtures to maximise their potential ranking to give them the best possible chance in competitions.
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Switzerland, Algeria, Greece please.

Doesn't matter who we draw we'll get our arse handed to us.
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Ricky
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Rehearsal draw. Pity it's only the rehearsal because it threw up some good group games

Group A had Brazil, France, Australia and Italy.

The opening game of the tournament would be Brazil-France.

Group B was Uruguay, Nigeria, USA and Croatia.

Group C had Argentina, Ghana, Costa Rica and Russia.

Group D in the rehearsal was Switzerland, Chile, Japan and Greece.

Group E was Spain, Ivory Coast, South Korea and England.

Group F is Colombia, Cameroon, Honduras and Holland.

Group G had Germany, Ecuador, Iran and Portugal.

Group H provided Belgium, Algeria, Mexico and Bosnia.
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Brazil, France and Italy :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

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Some terrible teams would qualify from that scenario.
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FIFA will ensure that does not happen. They don't want Italy, Brazil and France all in the same group. While 2 of Belgium, Algeria, Mexico or Bosnia qualify.
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Belgium wouldn't be too bad, not sure about Mexico lately.
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Well they hammered the ram rooters but anyone can do that.
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Dotty
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this on live?
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Tomorrow isn't it.
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that's what the title says
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