Of the 32 teams participating in the Qatar World Cup that started in November, 29 are already known after the US qualifiers finished. FIFA decided to highlight the hats ahead of the draw based on the world rankings on Thursday. The countries that are still in the fourth hat will be the contenders, with three more places to rent.
Who else is competing?
- From Europe, the winners of the Scotland-Ukraine match will face Wales in Cardiff, and it will be clear in early June who will be the last to join our continent.
- Costa Rica and New Zealand play in the Intercontinental Qualifiers (June 13-14, Qatar).
- Peru is waiting for an opponent, playing for the center of the World Cup in Qatar with the winner of the Australian-Emirati fencing.
Sport Illustrated calculated the new ranking, They divided the World Cup participants into four categories based on the new FIFA World Rankings. As usual, director Qatar came first, the Netherlands regretted it, and Portugal just slipped into the top eight.
Germany, on the other hand, is only second, and obviously everyone wants to avoid the 2014 winner. Previous World Cup finalist Croatia reached the second hat. There are two European countries in the third hat: Serbia and Poland. Canada, which again competed in the World Cup after 1986, was fourth. The Hungarian team achieved its last victory in the World Cup against his country (2-0), and Canada returned to the World Cup map after 36 years.
Location:
- front cap: Qatar, Brazil, Belgium, France, Argentina, England, Spain, Portugal
- second hat: Netherlands, Denmark, Germany, Mexico, Switzerland, USA, Uruguay, Croatia
- The third fish: Senegal, Iran, Japan, Morocco, Serbia, Poland, Korea, Tunisia
- Fourth hat: Cameroon, Canada, Ecuador, Saudi Arabia, Ghana and the three countries
The draw is directed, no more than two European players can be grouped together, and no team from the same continent, except for Europe, can avoid Argentina and Uruguay, for example.
These four can come together: Brazil, Germany, Serbia and Cameroon. It will be of similar strength: England, Holland, Senegal, Ecuador. The lightest group has a difference: Qatar, USA, Tunisia, Peru. The first two places go, and it does not matter in which branches the national team works. The raffle will be held in Qatar on Friday from 6 pm.
