FIFA WORLD CUP

Fifa has released the seedings of Friday’s 2010 world cup draw. The seeding has mainly concentrated on geographical location, the formula for seeding is based on the recent world rankings. The top teams are as follows:

1 Germany
2 Brazil
3 Italy
4 Spain
5 England
6 Argentina
7 Netherlands

For Australia this means that it could potentially be placed in one of the two ‘groups of death’ with a seeded country, plus one of either France or Portugal who were not seeded. The pots for the event are:

Pot 1: Argentina, Brazil, England, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, South Africa, Spain
Pot 2: Croatia, Denmark, Greece, Israel, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Turkey
Pot 3: Australia, Costa Rica, Iran, Japan, Korea DPR, Korea Republic, USA, Trinidad and Tobago
Pot 4: Cameroon, Chile, Cote d’Ivoire, Egypt, Ghana, Nigeria, Paraguay, Uruguay

With teams in the same pot not eligible to draw in the same group. Friday is set to be an interesting day for the 2010 world cup draw.

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