African champions, the Super Eagles
are set to be placed in Pot 3 when the draw for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil is
made in the Brazilian state of Bahia on December 6....
And interestingly, the Eagles may
find themselves in Group F, comprising Belgium, Russia and South Korea, who
coincidentally, were in the same group B with Nigeria at the 2010 World Cup in
South Africa.
After 26 months of qualifying
matches around the world, the 31 nations that will join hosts Brazil at the
2014 World Cup have emerged with Uruguay becoming the last team to seal their
place after taking out Jordan in their two-legged playoffs.
FIFA Secretary General Jérôme
Valcke will conduct the draw and the balls will be picked out by former World
Cup winners from the eight nations who have won the 19 tournaments to date.
According to The Metro, these will include Cafu, Fabio Cannavaro,
Mario Kempes, Lothar Matthaus, Zinedine Zidane and 1966 legend Sir Geoff Hurst.
According to Bleacher Report, the
pots separate out the top eight seeded teams and help ensure that teams from
the same confederations are separated as much as possible.There are four pots,
each containing eight nations. Each pot is drawn in order, so that its teams
end up in different groups. So, once Pot 1 is drawn, each group will have their
first member. And it will, in all likelihood, be the biggest team in their
respective tank.
Pot 1 is for the seeded teams, which
is based on the October 2013 FIFA rankings, therefore Pot 1 will contain the
following, Brazil (ranked 11th), Spain (1st) Germany (2nd) Argentina
(3rd), Colombia (4th) , Belgium (5th), Uruguay (6th) and Switzerland
(7th)
And the authoritative American
sports portal added that the Eagles might be drawn in Group F, housing Belgium,
Russia and South Korea, though the likelihood of it happening is not just
guaranteed, since it is a draw.
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