Adults want to avoid Germany and Holland.. Know the levels of the World Cup draw
The so-called “group of death” cannot be excluded in most major tournaments, for the approval of the International Football Association (FIFA) to distribute the participating teams into four levels, similar to the draw expected Friday for the World Cup Qatar 2022 finals.
And if France is the title holder and Brazil is the record holder In the number of titles (5), Argentina, England, Belgium, Spain and Portugal, in addition to Qatar, as the host country, will be in the first level. Germany, the four-time world champion, the Netherlands, which reached the final three times, and Croatia, the last runner-up in Russia 2018, came in the second level, with what Predicts the possibility of a "death group", for example, one consisting of Brazil, the Netherlands, Poland and Cameroon.
Denmark, which reached the semi-finals of the European Cup last summer, and Switzerland, which has been steady in the past ten years, and which topped its group in the qualifiers against Italy, will be the most prominent absentees from the World Cup.
The draw, which will distribute the 32 teams into eight groups, may witness some matches of a political nature in the event that the United States falls with Iran, for example, as happened in the World Cup France in 1998, or the two neighbors Croatia and Serbia face each other.
Canada, returning to the finals for the first time since 1986, had the opportunity to be in the third level if it beat Panama on Wednesday, but its 1-0 fall put it in the fourth level, placing Tunisia in the third.
The following is the distribution of the teams participating in the finals at the four levels on the eve of the draw at the Doha Exhibition and Convention Center scheduled at 16:00 GMT.
(In parentheses are the position of each team according to the classification issued by FIFA on Thursday, March 31, bearing in mind that Brazil snatched the lead from Belgium without affecting their positions in the draw).
Level one: Qatar (51, the host country), Brazil (1), Belgium (2), France (3), Argentina (4), England (5), Spain (7), Portugal (8).
Second place: Mexico (9), Netherlands (10), Denmark (11), Germany (12), Uruguay (13), Switzerland (14), United States (15), Croatia (16).
- Third level: Senegal (20), Iran (21), Japan (23), Morocco (24), Serbia (25), Poland (26), South Korea (29), Tunisia (35).
Fourth level: Cameroon (37), Canada (38), Ecuador (46), Saudi Arabia (49), Ghana (60), Wales or the winner of the Scotland/Ukraine match, Peru or the winner of the Australia-UAE match, the winner between New Zealand and Costa Rica .
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