FIFA Releases World Cup Pots

December 2nd, 2009 | by: Marlon |

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Here are the long awaited and much talked about pots for the World Cup Draw on Friday.

Pot 1 (Seeded teams): South Africa, Brazil, Spain, Holland, Italy, Germany, Argentina and England.

Pot 2 (Asia, Oceania, North/Central America): Japan, South Korea, North Korea, Australia, New Zealand, the United States, Mexico and Honduras.

Pot 3 (Africa, South America): Ivory Coast, Ghana, Cameroon, Nigeria, Algeria, Paraguay, Chile and Uruguay.

Pot 4 (Europe): France, Portugal, Slovenia, Switzerland, Greece, Serbia, Denmark and Slovakia.

Stay tuned for more World Cup coverage and analysis on the group the USA will find itself in on Friday.

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JDunn

How is this fair?!?! So theoretically we can get drawn with say Brazil, the Ivory Coast and France. But we definitely can’t be drawn with one of the weak Asian/Oceanic teams. That’s complete BS and flies in the face of fair competition.
Unbelievable

I was looking at the pots. There is a very likely chance that there could be TWO groups of death.

Barring South Africa as a seeded team, any other of the top seeded teams (Argentina appearing to be the weakest) could be paired with France or Portugal.

Enter any other powerful team from Africa/S. America and Oceana/Asia/N. America, which there are a few left, there could be two groups of death.

The US must avoid these groups for a shot at getting to the next round.

I am hoping we get a group like South Africa, USA, Algeria and Serbia.

That would probably give us the best chance out of the group stages. If we are in Brazil, Portugal, Ghana and USA, we are going to need all the luck in the work to get out of that group.

And so it begins…

GLTAL
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Marko

@Unbelievable Are you sure youw want Serbia in your group? ^^
Unbelievable

@Marko…Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia…I don’t care. They can be beaten more times than a seeded team besides South Africa. Plus, some of the African teams give the US speed problems…

Anyway, it’s moot b.c it is the Limey Bastages England, USA, Algeria and Slovenia.

I would say we can get to the next round.

GLTTMNT