The seedings and 'pot' groupings for the World Cup 2010 Draw on Friday 4th have finally been released. If you are new to this process, Pot One contains the top seven ranked seedings(according to Fifa) plus the host country, South Africa. The other pots broadly reflect a geographical categorization. The final eight groups of four teams will be selected by drawing a team from each pot in succession, eight times over. The pots are:
Pot 1 (seeds): South Africa, Brazil, Spain, Netherlands, Italy, Germany, Argentina, England
Pot 2 (Asia, Oceania and North/Central America): Japan, South Korea, North Korea, Australia, New Zealand, United States, 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
What's my favoured grouping for Australia? Here's one configuration.
England
Australia
Ghana
Slovenia
My nightmare grouping? One of many, includes:
Brazil
Australia
Ivory Coast
Portugal
All this will be settled a few days. Then we can get to discussing our chances of making the Round of 16.
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