[WC] World Cup 2010 - General Talk Thread (15 Viewers)

Dec 31, 2008
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The 2010 FIFA World Cup will be the 19th FIFA World Cup, the premier international football tournament. It is scheduled to take place between 11 June and 11 July 2010 in South Africa. The 2010 FIFA World Cup will be the culmination of a qualification process that began in August 2007 and involved 204 of the 208 FIFA national teams. This will be the first time that the tournament has been hosted by an African nation. FIFA makes the draw for the 2010 World Cup on 4th December 2009 at 16:00 GMT (17:00 CET). 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 2 to 4. 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); i.e., South Africa cannot play the African teams from Pot 3 and Argentina and Brazil cannot be drawn against the three remaining South American teams.
• Pot 1 is comprised of top seeded Brazil joining Spain, the Netherlands, Italy, Germany, Argentina and England
• Pot 2 will be composed of teams from Asia (Australia, Japan, Korea DPR, Korea Republic), North, Central America and the Caribbean (Honduras, Mexico, USA) and Oceania (New Zealand)
• Pot 3 will include teams from Africa (Algeria, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Nigeria) and South America (Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay)
• Pot 4 will have the remaining European teams (Denmark, France, Greece, Portugal, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Switzerland)
 

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