They Celebrate The Draw Of The World Cup

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

The die is cast.

The 32 countries that will play the World Cup in Russia from next June already know with whom they will play the games of the first phase of the championship after the celebration of the group draw in Moscow on Friday.

There was no great surprise and neither can it be said that any of the eight groups that have been formed can be called the "of death", although there are some that are expected to spark sparks.

As FIFA had predicted by changing the rules of the draws, the groups came out very closely matched and at least in almost all of them nothing seems decided before the ball starts to roll.

The ceremony, which was held in a hall of the Kremlin, was chaired by FIFA Chief Executive Gianni Infantino and Russian leader Vladimir Putin.

Mexico fell in Group F with Germany, Sweden and Korea. Outside of surprising the Germans, the team trained by Juan Pablo Osorio will compete for second place with Sweden, a theoretically inferior team, but which comes from eliminating Italy in the European qualification process.

"With everything and for everything," said Aztec striker Chicharito Hernández in a tweet when he learned what luck had in store for Tri.

Uruguay, which was included in group A with Russia and Egypt with the big rivals, also seems to have a good way to the next round, as well as Colombia, which was in group H with Poland, Senegal and Japan. The coffee growers, except for catastrophes, should be first of that group.

More difficult are Panama, which will face strong teams like Belgium or England in group G, and a Costa Rica that will have a hard time reissuing their success from the previous World Cup in group E along with Brazil, Switzerland and Serbia.

Peru, who returns to the World Cup 36 years later, will also have to sweat to pass the round in group F with Denmark, Australia and France, one of the great favorites to raise the cup.

Leo Messi's Argentina should pass first in group D, in which they will compete with Iceland, Croatia and Nigeria.

"Argentina has to go from group to group, because it is an affordable group and because they have to improve," said Argentine star Diego Armando Maradona, who was one of the former soccer stars in charge of taking the balls out of the draw. "You can't play as badly as they are."

Although the party that will probably generate more passions in this first round will be Portugal-Spain that the neighboring teams will play on the second day of the championship. The two Iberian countries will compete in group B with Iran and Morocco.

What is also known is that the opening match will be played by the host team, Russia, against Saudi Arabia on June 14 in Moscow.

Good luck to everyone!