World Cup 2010 Draw

[skel1983]

only the 1st pot of south africa, brazil, italy, germany, england, holland, spain and argentina is seeded

The other 3 pots are all based on where the country qualified from as FIFA want to keep sides from the same continents apart!!

FIFA just seem to make there own rules up as they go, the first pot is off world rankings but France are higher than the English but England are in pot 1, im not complaining but how the hell did they come up with that?

Is It something to do with France not winning there group?

England had a far better qualification process

Think we actually got seeded as the 5th side so easily made it in with the big boys

You would think the world cup is pretty much between the seeded sides (not south africa obviously)

Nah mate I just looked it up:

As I thought it wasnt nothing to do with qualification it was purely the world rankings minus the hosts, but apparently FIFA have gone off the rankings from October rather than the current ones, if FIFA had gone off the rankings when the seeds were announced England would of been pot 4 as England have dropped and France have risen since the October rankings. Now if that was on the other foot we probably wouldnt of heard the end of it, bit unfair on the French really.

Should of gone off the rankings when all teams had qualified for the WC meaning France would of been the last team seeded in pot one and England in pot 4, but like I said im not complaining .



England will avoid the biggest names in football when the World Cup draw is made on Friday, after Fabio Capello's team were named as one of the top eight seeds.
France, the runners-up in 2006, and Portugal were the biggest losers after the organising committee for the South Africa tournament decided to base the seedings on the official Fifa world rankings as they stood in October 2009.
The eight top seeds are South Africa as hosts, and, in order of October's rankings, Brazil, Spain, Holland, Italy, Germany, Argentina and England. The official Fifa rankings take in performances in all matches over the last four years, but are weighted towards competitive games and those played most recently.
If the rankings from November 2009 had been used, England would have been ranked ninth and would have missed out to France, who would have been ranked seventh. But Jérôme Valcke, Fifa's general secretary, said it was fairer to base the seedings on the October rankings when all European teams had played the same number of games, ahead of the play-offs. Valcke denied that the controversy surrounding France's play-off with the Republic of Ireland was a factor in the decision.