U20s World Cup Draw

It's on Tuesday. Live on Sky Sport 1 from 5:30. 

Haven't seen any information on what the pots are though.

Yes, it is pm.

I'm just hoping Myanmar get a game in Wellington.

@Dale_Warburton Hi Dale. We're just waiting for all teams to be informed in Auckland once they arrive. Then we have a graphic to explain it.

— Alex Stone (@AlexStone7) February 8, 2015

should just draw them out of one pot. No explanatory graphics necessary. 

so 1-2 confederations control how the World Cup is drawn, so that it suits them best. 

Fabulous. 

http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/football/nz-teams/65931697/alex-rufer-hoping-new-zealand-draw-best-teams-for-under20-world-cup-group Rufer wants to play against Germany, Argentina and Brazil.

Here are the pots

Hard to be sure but best we could hope for is Uzbekistan, Honduras, Fiji.

Hee, hee....We'll probably end up with CAF 2, Brazil and Portugal.

Whats the reason behind doing the draw before all the qualified teams are found? 

Give time for teams/FIFA to organise themselves I'd say.

Usually teams from the same confederation (except Europe occasionally) can't be in the same group...so I doubt if NZ and Fiji will be in the same group...they will manipulate somehow...I heard that they want to put Fiji in Hamilton as a business plan because it's close to Auckland (where there are a lot of Fijians) for 'crowd' purposes.  Since NZ is based in Auckland, Fiji can't be there as well.

Africa Cup under 20s is on in March, so I guess we can't wait around for them forever LOL.  

which means Fiji will be in Germany's pool.

Ukraine, USA, and Myanmar will join the All Whites in Group A.

NZ vs Myanmar at Westpac on June 5th. I'm already ridiculously excited.

Christchurch get three Germany games and one Brazil game. Not bad

That looks to be somewhat favourable?

So what games are in Wellington? Other than Burma vs Aotearoa

Thinking we should progress through that group. Ukraine and USA will prove tough but we might sneak a point against one of them, and we should beat Burma really. Either way 3 or 4 pts plus a respectable goal difference should be enough to get through.

Group B games in Wgtn except for B2 vs B3 (Panama vs CAF3)

Big night in Wellington 5th June:

Curtain raiser: Argentina v Austria

Main event : NZ v Myanmar

Hah. My Myanmar girlfriend just moved here with me last month, this will be good :)

A good draw for NZ...remember that the 4 best third place teams make it as well but I think that we can do better than that and get 1st or 2nd.  I'm happy with the teams we are getting in Hamilton...the Colombian community in Hamilton are quite lively so they could make a great atmosphere in the stadium.

Was it just me or was the audio slightly out of sync at the beginning. Hayley Holt is hot but fudgeing hell she is fake.  And what was with asking a netballer to help with the draw, what about Maia Jackman or another football fern.  

Stoked with Dunedin getting a Portugal game.

You're not Burma anymore?

The whole thing was embarrassing. No ferns player, Hay, Sumner, andRufer talking in clichés, Stan Walker performing.

But Christchurch is a sharkhole, so you know these things even out eventually.

PDF Wall Planner http://resources.fifa.com/mm/document/tournament/c...

As someone in Christchurch, I think it's a shame about some of the scheduling (and it applies to some games in other groups too such as Argentina vs. CAF 2 at 4 pm in Wellington on a working Thursday):

http://resources.fifa.com/mm/document/tournament/c...

I doubt if the attractive game of Germany vs. Uzbekistan will draw many punters at 4 pm on a Thursday - while the second game that day at the better time of 7 pm involves the not so appealing matchup of Honduras vs. Fiji. TV viewing figures will suffer too.

The opening game of Germany vs. Fiji is at 1 pm on the holiday Monday which is fine - but how many punters will stay around for the second game that day of Uzbekistan vs. Honduras? Reversing those games would work better.

The Christchurch semi-final is at 4 pm on a Wednesday.

Some Round of 16 games in other centres are at 4 pm too on a Wednesday or Thursday.

Sure, some school kids will come to the 4 pm games -but how many adults would leave work at 3 pm to make a 4 pm game? Not many. And not many will take time off work for a game  - only a handful of diehards. 

Also TV viewing figures in NZ for 4 pm kick-offs on working days are going to suck.

So you want 7pm and 9pm games? ok then.

Also you can't rig the draw to suit what is best. Just going to have to suck it up.

Got mine -

NZ v UKR, QAT v COL, NZ v USA, QAT v PORT, HUNG v BRAZ, UKR v USA, FIJI v UZB.

Vroom vroom...

Haha, sounds like you got some good travelling around the North Island to do

NZ vs Myanmar is a must go.

I'll watch Argentina and Austria games.

Round of 16 and 1/4 finals will be crackers.