Kepler
Si certus es dubita
Makes sense. Thanks.
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World Soccer XXXI: Golden Generation?
- Thread starter Jimjamesak
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Jimjamesak
Already insane, UAA making it worse
Also, prior to the 2018 Cup, pots were assigned, outside of Pot 1 which has always been seeded teams, by Confederation and not rankings. For example in 2014 the pots were:
Pot 1 (Seeded Teams): Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Uruguay, Belgium, Germany, Spain, Switzerland
Pot 2 (Africa and CONMEBOL): Algeria, Cameroon, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Chile, Ecuador
Pot 3 (CONCACAF and Asia): Australia, Japan, South Korea, Iran, Costa Rica, Honduras, Mexico, US
Pot 4 (UEFA): Bosnia, Croatia, England, France, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Russia
Then a random team (Italy) was drawn from Pot 4 and put into Pot 2.
Which is how you got groups like Germany (ranked #2), Portugal (14), Ghana (23), and US (13) vs Belgium (5), Algeria (32), Russia (19), South Korea (56).
They finally switch to pots based solely on rankings (outside of the hosts) in 2018.
Pot 1 (Seeded Teams): Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Uruguay, Belgium, Germany, Spain, Switzerland
Pot 2 (Africa and CONMEBOL): Algeria, Cameroon, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Chile, Ecuador
Pot 3 (CONCACAF and Asia): Australia, Japan, South Korea, Iran, Costa Rica, Honduras, Mexico, US
Pot 4 (UEFA): Bosnia, Croatia, England, France, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Russia
Then a random team (Italy) was drawn from Pot 4 and put into Pot 2.
Which is how you got groups like Germany (ranked #2), Portugal (14), Ghana (23), and US (13) vs Belgium (5), Algeria (32), Russia (19), South Korea (56).
They finally switch to pots based solely on rankings (outside of the hosts) in 2018.