midfielder
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Just been trying to work out how all the seeding and teams get matched... I think this is how it works ... The 32 teams are divided into eight groups of four, with the top eight (atm most likely they will be Brazil, Germany, Italy, Spain, England, Argentina, France and Netherlands if they qualified but Mexico and then USA from the list if one or two of them fail to qualify) are all seeded. No seeded teams are put in the same group.
Geographical criteria plays it part, meaning that only one team per confederation with the exception of Europe, which has two teams allocated to each can be placed in a group, an added complication would be like having a team like Serbia and Montenergo (in 2006) as the lowest ranked of the 14 UEFA teams, who were given a special pot to avoid having three European Teams in the same group.
This means as I understand it we do not get to play another Asian side ... and a good chance of playing two European sides plus someone from America .. hopefully not South America or Africa.
That will be a tough group ... tougher than 2006 me thinks...
BTW am I right in my interpretations of how the WC works.
Geographical criteria plays it part, meaning that only one team per confederation with the exception of Europe, which has two teams allocated to each can be placed in a group, an added complication would be like having a team like Serbia and Montenergo (in 2006) as the lowest ranked of the 14 UEFA teams, who were given a special pot to avoid having three European Teams in the same group.
This means as I understand it we do not get to play another Asian side ... and a good chance of playing two European sides plus someone from America .. hopefully not South America or Africa.
That will be a tough group ... tougher than 2006 me thinks...
BTW am I right in my interpretations of how the WC works.
