Strange draw

[kabira]

By the tiem Quarter Finals come, One of the worlds top 3 teams will be out. Brazil, Portugal and Spain are top 3 ranked teams. It will be Brazil v/s Spain or most likely Portugal v/s Spain Round of 16 game What a crazy draw.........

[kabira]

Spain v/s Portugal. Two high ranked teams clashing in round of 16. Normally they should meet in semis.

[Gunner_Mania]

How it all works: The 32 nations will be drawn into eight groups of four with the top two in each group progressing to the knockout stages, beginning with a round of 16. The teams will be seeded in four pots which have been confirmed by Fifa: Pot 1: (seeds) South Africa, Germany, Brazil, Italy, Spain, England, Holland, Argentina. 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. * Hosts South Africa will be automatically positioned as A1; the other seeded teams will be drawn into the other groups B-H, but will always be in position '1' of their group. * Groups will be drawn from A to H and the positions in the group will be drawn for Pots two to four * Geographical criteria will also be respected, meaning that no two teams from the same confederation will be drawn in the same group (except European teams, where a maximum of two will be in a group). For example, South Africa cannot play the African teams from Pot 3 and Argentina and Brazil cannot be drawn against the three remaining South American teams.

[Don Sharma]

Portugal should actually be thankful that they are in the finals at least. If it was not for scums at FIFA who introduced the seeding system (without any notice prior to the qualifiers) in the play-offs, they could have very well be drawn with France and who knows 'Hand'ry would have scored against them.