The World Cup draw is getting announced on Friday and the news is very anticipated for the teams in the tournament, as they are hoping to get a favorable draw in the bracket and with the first pot of teams coming from the top of the FIFA rankings and with the host nation of Brazil, those top ranked teams in pot one includes Spain, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, Argentina, Colombia and Uruguay.
Those teams will be drawn first into the various groups, with Brazil already going into Group A and the rest of the ranked teams will get placed into Groups B through H, while another pot will be made to even things out for the draw. After that, teams in the other pots will get drawn into groups and with the past eight champions all qualifying for the tournament, this could be one of the most competitive ever.
The rankings coming into things had Spain at the top with Germany, Argentina, Colombia, Portugal, Uruguay, Italy, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Brazil and Belgium and the rankings helped put the teams into the pots and now they will be drawn for the tournament.
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FIFA on Tuesday announced the following pots to be used for Friday's draw for next year's World Cup finals when the 32 teams will be placed into eight first-round groups of four.
Pot 1 consists of the eight top seeds, one of each to be drawn in Groups A-H. The remaining pots are based on geographical criteria.
Hosts Brazil will be allocated position A1 in the draw and will play the opening match in Sao Paulo on June 12.
Pot 1 (top eight seeds): Brazil, Spain, Argentina, Belgium, Colombia, Germany, Switzerland, Uruguay
Pot 2: Ivory Coast, Ghana, Algeria, Nigeria, Cameroon, Chile, Ecuador
Pot 3: Japan, Iran, South Korea, Australia, United States, Mexico, Costa Rica, Honduras
Pot 4: Bosnia, Croatia, England, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Russia, France
Note: A pre-draw will be held to move one of the nine European teams into Pot 2. That European team will then be drawn against one of the four seeded South American teams to preserve the geographical balance of the draw.
The four South American seeds: Brazil, Uruguay, Colombia, Argentina will form a temporary Pot X. The three teams not drawn against the European team in Pot 2 will return to the main draw.
