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2010 World Cup preliminary Draw:

nipponyid

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Takes place on Sunday. 15.00GMT.

Live video streaming of the draw.
http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/index.html
 

nipponyid

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Sunday's draw will see Asia's groups drawn first, followed by those in the Concacaf region, Europe and then Africa.
There is no draw for South America and the Oceania region, who have already started their preliminary competition.
A total of 861 qualifying matches will be played to determine the lineup for the 2010 World Cup finals.
 

kishman

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As we finished third in our group. Does that mean will be seeded third? So we could potentially play teams who finished 1st or 2nd in their groups. How does that work?
 

thfcsuperyid

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international football is falling out of football fans interest in my opinion...its just so bad to watch.
 

Rocksuperstar

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Nice one, NY :up: had no idea the draw was this weekend
 

HuggyBear

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We'll probably end up in a group with Germany or Italy, and fail to qualify for that as well.
 

nipponyid

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England suffer 2010 seedings blow:

England will not be among the top seeds in the 2010 World Cup qualifying draw after their failure to reach Euro 2008. The defeat against Croatia has seen them drop to 12th in the world rankings after being leap-frogged by Greece.

This means they are not in the top nine European countries in the draw when it is made in South Africa on Sunday. They are in the group of second seeds and could possibly face a leading team such as Italy, France or Germany in a potentially hazardous qualifying group.

The nine seeded teams are expected to be Italy, Spain, Germany, Czech Republic, France, Portugal, the Netherlands, Croatia and Greece.
The nine group winners will automatically qualify with the best eight runners up playing off for the last four tickets to South Africa.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/internationals/7108764.stm
 

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England suffer 2010 seedings blow:

England will not be among the top seeds in the 2010 World Cup qualifying draw after their failure to reach Euro 2008. The defeat against Croatia has seen them drop to 12th in the world rankings after being leap-frogged by Greece.

This means they are not in the top nine European countries in the draw when it is made in South Africa on Sunday. They are in the group of second seeds and could possibly face a leading team such as Italy, France or Germany in a potentially hazardous qualifying group.

The nine seeded teams are expected to be Italy, Spain, Germany, Czech Republic, France, Portugal, the Netherlands, Croatia and Greece.
The nine group winners will automatically qualify with the best eight runners up playing off for the last four tickets to South Africa.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/internationals/7108764.stm

The teams i didn't underline are the one we would need to avoid, and we would really like to get one of the underlined teams but preferrably not Portugal and Germany.
 

don1

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what would be the chances of Ireland and England in the same group does anyone know if they will be kept apart
 

Rocksuperstar

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i expect the format will be the usual, keep it simple, that's the key:

The teams will be split into 8 pots, numbered A to 9. A team will be drawn from each pot in the order of the FIFA headquarters phone number, minus any zeros, and put into one big pot, which will be stirred by a transexual Shania Twain look-a-like, called Pedro. A special little crane, controlled by the power of thought by Sepp Blatter, will draw two teams at a time, then each of the countries delegates will play Tekken to decide who gets first dibsies on the pot they go in. Portugal can't go in pot 2 or 3, Crotia will go wherever the hell the Gippos get drawn, France can't be drawn into pots F, Hercules or 2. Germany have refused to be put in any pot but 1.

Once the preliminary rounds of the draw are over, and everyones had a sauna and toweled each other down, then the balls will be swallowed, one pot at a time, by a magician from the Czech Republic, and pooed from the top of the Hague into a paddling pool full of naked children, who will then fight to the death. The winner will decide the home and away draws by scrawling it on the front of an EU approved fridge with a poisonous yellow crayon.

Every year, same thing, but it's simple and it works, so why change, eh? :shrug:
 

nipponyid

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Here`s the different pots for the draw, so its possible England could get Eire.

POT ONE
Italy
Spain
Germany
Czech Rep
France
Portugal
Holland
Croatia
Greece

POT TWO
England
Romania
Scotland
Turkey
Bulgaria
Russia
Poland
Sweden
Israel

POT THREE
Norway
Ukraine
Serbia
Denmark
Northern Ireland
Republic of Ireland
Finland
Switzerland
Belgium

POT FOUR
Slovakia
Bosnia Herzegovina
Hungary
Moldova
Wales
FYR Macedonia
Belarus
Lithuania
Cyprus

POT FIVE
Georgia
Albania
Slovenia
Latvia
Iceland
Armenia
Austria
Kazakhstan
Azerbaijan

POT SIX
Liechtenstein
Estonia
Malta
Luxembourg
Montenegro
Andorra
Faroe Islands
San Marino
 

nipponyid

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i expect the format will be the usual, keep it simple, that's the key:

The teams will be split into 8 pots, numbered A to 9. A team will be drawn from each pot in the order of the FIFA headquarters phone number, minus any zeros, and put into one big pot, which will be stirred by a transexual Shania Twain look-a-like, called Pedro. A special little crane, controlled by the power of thought by Sepp Blatter, will draw two teams at a time, then each of the countries delegates will play Tekken to decide who gets first dibsies on the pot they go in. Portugal can't go in pot 2 or 3, Crotia will go wherever the hell the Gippos get drawn, France can't be drawn into pots F, Hercules or 2. Germany have refused to be put in any pot but 1.

Once the preliminary rounds of the draw are over, and everyones had a sauna and toweled each other down, then the balls will be swallowed, one pot at a time, by a magician from the Czech Republic, and pooed from the top of the Hague into a paddling pool full of naked children, who will then fight to the death. The winner will decide the home and away draws by scrawling it on the front of an EU approved fridge with a poisonous yellow crayon.

Every year, same thing, but it's simple and it works, so why change, eh? :shrug:

Very good..:rofl:
 

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I hope we get Finland, Czech,Cypress, slovenia, Andora. All great drinkers!
 

nipponyid

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Group 1
Portugal, Sweden, Denmark, Hungary, Albania, Malta

Group 2
Greece, Israel, Switzerland, Moldova, Latvia, Luxembourg

Group 3
Czech Republic, Poland, NORTHERN IRELAND, Slovakia, Slovenia, San Marino

Group 4
Germany, Russia, Finland, WALES, Azerbaijan, Liechtenstein

Group 5
Spain, Turkey, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Armenia, Estonia

Group 6
Croatia, ENGLAND, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Andorra

Group 7
France, Romania, Serbia, Lithuania, Austria, Faroe Islands

Group 8
Italy, Bulgaria, Republic of Ireland, Cyprus, Georgia, Montenegro

Group 9
Holland, SCOTLAND, Norway, FYR Macedonia, Iceland
 
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