World Cup Draw, England draw US

Posted by yamsmos on December 4, 2009 · Under News · View Comments 

the two teams i personally wanted in two different groups got drawn together, of course.  oh well, hopefully they can both get through and then meet each other in the final… har har har.

the group of death??? well, if you have to pick it, there are two.  Germany, Serbia, Australia and Ghana is not very fun for any of those teams, as well as Brazil, North Korea, Ivory Coast and Portugal is going to be tough for everyone there too. well maybe north korea won’t bother too many people, but you would be hard to say that any of the other 3 are sure to get through.

Draw for 2010 World Cup finals

GROUP A

1. South Africa
2. Mexico
3. Uruguay
4. France

GROUP B

1. Argentina
2. Nigeria
3. South Korea
4. Greece

GROUP C

1. England
2. United States
3. Algeria
4. Slovenia

GROUP D

1. Germany
2. Australia
3. Serbia
4. Ghana

GROUP E

1. Netherlands
2. Denmark
3. Japan
4. Cameroon

GROUP F

1. Italy
2. Paraguay
3. New Zealand
4. Slovakia

GROUP G

1. Brazil
2. North Korea
3. Ivory Coast
4. Portugal

GROUP H

1. Spain
2. Switzerland
3. Honduras
4. Chile

  • budbud

    Why did Ivory Coast drop to Group G instead of Group C?  Seemed arbitrary to me.

  • yamsmos

    yeah, i didn’t understand that one either budbud…

    so we knew it couldn’t go into A (south africa) and B(nigeria), so i was yelling “NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO” b/c i thought it went into the next one which was England and US, but then they put it in G….

    was relieved, but don’t know why

  • budbud

    Could it be because it’s an unfair, arbitrary, mobbish organization?

    I’m so sick of the fixing.

  • yamsmos

    ok, just read this….

    “In regards to the placing of the Ivory Coast into Brazil’s group, they went alphabetically by the seeded team (First Argentina, then Brazil, then England) when placing the African countries taking part.”

    So when nigeria was picked, they couldn’t go in to pot A b/c of south africa, so they went to Argentina and that just happened to be group B by coincidence. Then Ivory Coast got drawn… and they went to Brazil.

  • budbud

    If the balls are drawn randomly, what logical reason does that rule serve?  None.  It only serves to reduce the randomness and skew the results.

  • yamsmos

    budbud and fifa sitting in a tree…

  • budbud

    totally….  Yo Sepp!  Can I have my $1600 back yet?

  • greg ecs

    god bless the hand that placed the argeria and slovenia balls in our pot.

    finally the USA gets a decent group…easiest group on paper in the history of US soccer at WC…

  • yamsmos

    i think the big uknown is slovenia… they beat russia so they aren’t anything to overlook…. i think the US looks for a draw with england as acceptable, and then the win over slovenia is the big on….

    if they can’t beat algeria then they don’t deserve to go through.

  • jt

    The press is already working the Donovan v Beckham match-up.  At least it is game 1 and doesn’t matter as much – win the other two matches and move forward.  At least the loan to AC Milan now has 2 purposes, getting Becks onto the English side, and keeping them apart for training drills.  I think the Home Depot Center is also the USMNT training facility right?

  • supporter

    becks won’t be on the field until the 70th minute…

    the becks vs cakes
    or limeys vs yanks

    the yanks are coming!

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