World Cup Draw

[cwy21]

Location: Cape Town, South Africa
Time: Friday, December 4 at 1700 GMT

Its still a few days away, but the meeting to decide the seeds and pots is tomorrow.

Here are the expected pots IF they keep the same formula as 2006. FIFA can always change it tomorrow.

Pot 1: Brazil, Germany, Italy, Spain, England, Argentina, France, South Africa
Pot 2: Denmark, Greece, Netherlands, Portugal, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland
Pot 3: Algeria, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Nigeria, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay
Pot 4: Australia, Japan, North Korea, South Korea, New Zealand, Honduras, Mexico, USA

The only remaining question is who gets grouped with Africa? The assumption is CONMEBOL gets grouped with the African teams, but they could include CONCACAF.

This is big because whoever gets grouped with Africa has a 1/3 chance of drawing South Africa from the seeds pot because none of the five Africa teams could be put in group A. Also, it opens up being able to draw the weaker Asian/New Zealand teams.

The teams put with Asia will only have a 1/8 chance of drawing South Africa, while they will draw someone from Africa or South America. As an American I'm praying we somehow get put with Africa. If not, the US and Mexico will both likely be in the two or three groups of deaths (which there will be more than one).

From Pot 2, Netherlands and Portugal will be the teams to avoid.

Best group for England: England, Slovenia, Uruguay (or maybe Algeria), New Zealand (or North Korea)
World group for England: England, Netherlands, Cote d'Ivoire, Mexico

Best group for USA: South Africa, Slovenia, USA, Uruguay
World group for USA: Brazil, Netherlands, Cote d'Ivoire, USA

Hardest possible group: Brazil, Netherlands, Cote d'Ivoire, Mexico
Easiest possible group (aka the one South Africa will really get :wink: South Africa, Slovenia, Uruguay, New Zealand

You could replace Cote d'Ivoire with Ghana or Cameroon as well.

 

[seany]

I thought the draw was 5.15

 

[Dougal]

:lol:

 

[seany]

:lol:

?

 

[Dougal]

He went through all the different possible outcomes of the groups, did his research, took a bit of time working out the seeds, the tough groups, the easy groups, posted it all and then you pointed out the time of the draw might be 15 minutes out. It tickled me

 

[seany]

He went through all the different possible outcomes of the groups, did his research, took a bit of time working out the seeds, the tough groups, the easy groups, posted it all and then you pointed out the time of the draw might be 15 minutes out. It tickled me

Cool

 

[deselina]

south africa
holland
algeria
new zealand

please

uruguay are not a bad team, they have luis suarez and diego forlan upfront!

 

[Dougal]

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[nipponyid]

Fifa will announce which teams will be seeded for the draw on Wednesday.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...World-Cup-2010-draw-all-you-need-to-know.html

Possible draw (using random.org):

Group A: South Africa, Switzerland, Australia, Paraguay
Group B: Germany, Serbia, USA, Uruguay
Group C: Argentina, Portugal, New Zealand, Ghana
Group D: Spain, Greece, Mexico, Chile
Group E: England, Slovakia, Honduras, Cote d'Ivoire
Group F: Italy, France , Japan, Algeria
Group G: Netherlands, Denmark, North Korea, Cameroon
Group H: Brazil, Slovenia, Korea Republic, Nigeria

Match Schedule

The JABULANI.

 

[deselina]

pots came all out different lol.

holland in pot 1, wooptiedoo!

 

[Kendall]

I would love to play Cote d'Ivoire :-D

 

[Kendall]

pots came all out different lol.

holland in pot 1, wooptiedoo!

deselina! where have you been? duh!

 

[Kushal]

Confirmed seeds and pots:

Pot 1 - South Africa, Argentina, Brazil, England, Germany, Holland, Italy, Spain.

Pot 2 - Australia, Japan, North Korea, South Korea, Honduras, Mexico, USA, New Zealand

Pot 3 - Algeria, Cameroon, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay

Pot 4 - Denmark, France, Greece, Portugal, Serbia, Slovenia, Slovakia, Switzerland

Gotta wait until Friday for the sprouts.

 

[Kushal]

England - USA - Ivory Coast - France anyone? :lol:

 

[Kendall]

I want Australia, Cote d'Ivoire and France!!!

I wonder who Ireland will get.












Sorry.

 

[Partizan]

South Africa
North Korea
Paraguay
Slovenia

That would suck.

 

[barry]

Jesus North Korea qualified. Why wasn't I informed

 

[chrissivad]

why does pot 4 look stronger than pot 2 and 3?

 

[Chris12345]

Cos it's the non-seeded European pot, and European teams tend to be stronger...

 

[cwy21]

Odds are the US will be in a group of death again. Hope we can get lucky because we aren't getting out of a group of Brazil, Ivory Coast, USA, and Switzerland.