Salmon swim upstream
Final Draw for the 2010 FIFA World Cup� � note to media
The
detailed criteria to determine the seeded teams for the Final Draw for
the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa� will be confirmed at the next
meeting of the Organising Committee for the FIFA World Cup� in Cape
Town on 2 December 2009 (and announced at a press conference following
the meeting).
If the criteria to determine the seeded teams were to include, as in the past, the FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking, then it would be the October 2009 edition of this ranking which would be considered, and this for sporting reasons. In fact, using the November 2009 edition would create an uneven situation, specifically for the European Zone, where the play-offs involving the eight best runners-up led to an imbalance in the number of qualification matches played between the teams (i.e. some teams play more games than others).
For what it's worth, I put the November rankings into the seedings calc to replace the October ones to see if it made a difference.
Not sure how this will appear on the forum, but this is the seeding detail copied and pasted if the 2006 method is used, albeit with Oct'09 instead of Nov'09:
Prior WCs FIFA Rankings 2006 2002 Overall 2009 2008 2007 Overall Total Rank South Africa dnq 0 0 17 9 9 3.00 2 3 5 3.33 6.33 29 Brazil 5 28 56 1 32 32 29.33 32 28 31 30.33 59.67 1 Germany 3 30 60 2 31 31 30.33 28 31 28 29.00 59.33 2 Italy 1 32 64 15 18 18 27.33 29 29 30 29.33 56.67 3 Spain 9 24 48 5 28 28 25.33 31 32 29 30.67 56.00 4 England 7 26 52 6 27 27 26.33 26 26 23 25.00 51.33 5 Argentina 6 27 54 18 9 9 21.00 27 27 32 28.67 49.67 6 France 2 31 62 28 8 8 23.33 25 25.5 27 25.83 49.17 7 Portugal 4 29 58 21 9 9 22.33 24 25.5 26 25.17 47.50 8 Netherlands 11 22 44 dnq 0 0 14.67 30 30 25 28.33 43.00 9 Mexico 15 18 36 11 22 22 19.33 18 15 22 18.33 37.67 10 USA 25 8 16 8 25 25 13.67 23 19 21 21.00 34.67 11 Switzerland 10 23 46 dnq 0 0 15.33 22 17 10 16.33 31.67 12 Paraguay 18 9 18 16 17 17 11.67 15 22 19 18.67 30.33 13 Ghana 13 20 40 dnq 0 0 13.33 7 16 11 11.33 24.67 14 Cameroon dnq 0 0 20 9 9 3.00 21 23 18 20.67 23.67 15 Korea Republic 17 9 18 4 29 29 15.67 5 7 12 8.00 23.67 16 Australia 16 17 34 dnq 0 0 11.33 14 14 8 12.00 23.33 17 Japan 28 8 16 9 24 24 13.33 6 10 14 10.00 23.33 17 Greece dnq 0 0 dnq 0 0 0.00 20 20 24 21.33 21.33 19 Ivory Coast 19 9 18 dnq 0 0 6.00 17 13 13 14.33 20.33 20 Serbia 32 8 16 dnq 0 0 5.33 16 12 17 15.00 20.33 21 Denmark dnq 0 0 10 23 23 7.67 12 9 15 12.00 19.67 22 Nigeria dnq 0 0 27 8 8 2.67 10 21 20 17.00 19.67 22 Uruguay dnq 0 0 26 8 8 2.67 13 18 16 15.67 18.33 24 Chile dnq 0 0 dnq 0 0 0.00 19 11 9 13.00 13.00 25 Honduras dnq 0 0 dnq 0 0 0.00 8 8 7.5 7.83 7.83 26 Slovakia dnq 0 0 dnq 0 0 0.00 9 6 7.5 7.50 7.50 27 Slovenia dnq 0 0 30 8 8 2.67 4 5 3 4.00 6.67 28 Algeria dnq 0 0 dnq 0 0 0.00 11 4 4 6.33 6.33 30 New Zealand dnq 0 0 dnq 0 0 0.00 3 2 2 2.33 2.33 31 North Korea dnq 0 0 dnq 0 0 0.00 1 1 1 1.00 1.00 32SiNZ2009-11-20 23:49:22Salmon swim upstream
but I expect links to be on topic please mate.
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� hosts South Africa will be automatically positioned as A1; the other seeded teams will be drawn into the other groups B-H, but will always be in position �1� of their group
� groups will be drawn from A to H and the positions in the group will be drawn for Pots 2 to 4
� geographical criteria will also be respected, meaning that no two teams from the same confederation will be drawn in the same group (except European teams, where a maximum of two will be in a group). For example, South Africa cannot play the African teams from Pot 3 and Argentina and Brazil cannot be drawn against the three remaining South American teams.
Three for me, and two for them.
Three for me, and two for them.
on behalf of hand of god, thanks to those forum members who correctly anticipated the broad composition of the pots. you heard it hear first.
Salmon swim upstream
Three for me, and two for them.