The World Cup Draw is a big event in the soccer world and on Friday the official draw for the 2014 event in Brazil will be announced and ahead of that, the governing body released the Pots for the draw on Tuesday, with teams like Costa Rica, Argentina, Spain, England, France, United States and Portugal waiting for their group assignments.
FIF confirmed the pots for the draw on Tuesday and they are split up into four different groups and from each of the pots, with the first pot taking the seeded teams and the rest split up geographically, as the second pot has the African and South American squads, while the third has teams like the US and Mexico in CONCACAF as well as the Asian teams, while Pot 4 is the biggest with the European teams, totaling nine in that pot.
According to ESPN.com, since the pots are uneven, one Euro team will be placed into pot two and that means one will face off against a seeded team from South America. The draw is a complicated task with all the different qualifiers and groups and the eight seeded teams took the first pot, with Brazil getting in as the home nation for the tournament followed by the seeded teams in Germany, Spain, Colombia, Argentina, Belgium as well as Switzerland and Uruguay.
The draw and groups are split so that there won't be more than two teams from Europe in any group and the draw will also split the South American nations and all that could mean a difficult draw for certain teams compared to others. The predraw for the Euro teams will move one of those squads into pot 2 to even things out and then they will play against a South American team.
The pots are as follows:
Pot 1 has the seeded teams and Brazil with: Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Uruguay, Spain, Germany, Belgium and Switzerland.
Pot 2 has the South American teams that are unseeded and African qualifiers: Africa: Algeria, Cameroon, Chile, Ivory Coast, Ecuador, Ghana and Nigeria.
Pot 3 has the teams from the CONCACAF group in North America and South America, while it also has Asian teams: with the United States, Australia, Costa Rica, Honduras, Iran, Japan, Korea Republic, Mexico.
The last Pot 4 has the unseeded teams from Europe: Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, England, France, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Russia.
