Portugal knows the complications and avoids several ‘sharks’
Nothe draw that starts scheduled for 19:00 (17:00 in Lisbon), in Doha, a team coached by Fernando Santos, who heads or eighth place in the FIFA ranking, has the privilege of integrating the pot of the seeds of the series , despite having secured the final of the competition, after the presence of ‘play-off’ of the European zone.
In addition to avoiding the country’s home team to do, FIFA, Portugal knows, hand in hand, that it doesn’t leave with the best publicized teams: Brazil (champion in 1958, 1962, 1970, 19, 2002), France (1998 and 2018), Argentina (1978 and 1986) England (1966) and Spain (2010).
If in Pot 1 they are theoretically more powerful, in Pot 2 there is also, of course, an undesirable selection, Germany, champions in 1954, 1974, 1990 and 2014.
In addition to the Germans, Mexico, Netherlands, runners-up in 1974, 1978, Denmark and 2010, Denmark, Uruguay, winner in 1930 and 1950 and responsible for eliminating Portugal in the 2018 World Cup (2-1 in the round of 16), Switzerland , the United States and Croatia, runner-up in the second year, are all part of the strongest teams.
In Pot 3, which includes South Korea, owned by coach Bento, there are selections that the Portuguese, all Portuguese want, avoid: Senegal, three current African, Poland and Sévia, precisely an alternative that in 2021 wants won 2-1 at Luz, in the last qualifying round, ‘throwing’ Portugal into the ‘play-offs’.
By Asia, the last Pot 4 is not yet, leaving to know three teams, which will come out of the European ‘play-offs’ (Wales, Scotland or Ukraine), the confrontation between (Australia or United Arab Emirates) and America (Peru) and between Oceania (New Zealand) and North and Central America (Costa Rica).
The 32 finalist teams for the 2022 World Cup were divided into eight groups of four (designated A to H), made up of a line-up from each pot consisting of a base in today’s FIFA rankings, with the property of Qatar being in position one. of Group A.
Like the other power teams, they will be classified at most in the first position of the remaining ‘poules’ and no group can have more than one representative of each, with the exception of Europe, which has 13 and have at least two teams in the same group.
The draw will be attended by 2000 guests and will be used by Carli Lloyd, Jermaaine Jenas and Samantha Johnson, former assistants such as Cafú (Brazil), Lothar Matthaus (Germany), Ali Daei (Iran), Bora Milutinovic (Serbia), Jay- Jay Okocha (Nigeria), Tim Cahill (Australia) and Rabah Madjer (Algeria), former FC Porto player.
Distribution of selections by pots:
Pot 1:
Qatar (organizing country)
Brazil
Belgium
France
Argentina
England
Spain
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Pot 2:
Netherlands
Denmark
Germany
Mexico
U.S
Switzerland
Croatia
Uruguay
Pot 3:
Senegal
Iran
Japan
Morocco
Serbia
Poland
South Korea
Tunisia
Pot 4:
Canada
Cameroon
Ecuador
Saudi Arabia
Ghana
Wales, Scotland or Ukraine
Australia, United Arab Emirates or Peru
New Zealand or Costa Rica
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