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FIFA has announced World Cup draw seeds for the 2010 WC in South Africa.
Pot 1 (seeds): South Africa, Brazil, Spain, Holland, Italy, Germany, Argentina, England
Pot 2 (Asia, Oceania and North/Central America): Japan, South Korea, North Korea, Australia, New Zealand, USA, Mexico, Honduras
Pot 3 (Africa and South America): Ivory Coast, Ghana, Cameroon, Nigeria, Algeria, Paraguay, Chile, Uruguay
Pot 4 (Europe): France, Portugal, Slovenia, Switzerland, Greece, Serbia, Denmark, Slovakia
The draw will take place on Friday Dec. 4, 2009. Teams will be divided into 8 groups of 4 teams each. Each country to play opposing team in the group once. Top 2 advance to the straight knockout rounds.
Not many surprises in the seedings. Only one might be seeing the the finalists of 2004 not in pot one. Instead we have Holland there. But no one will cry for France, seeing as they got there by cheating and they did not win their group, whereas Holland was the first to qualify out of Europe. So potentially a very tough draw for the French. South Africa is there because they are hosts.
Friday should provide for some interesting debates and fortune telling. Can’t wait.
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