Bowls for the World Cup draw are ****** up?

You do raise a point I guess. I don't think Mexico deserve to be in the first bowl but they should have been in second, I don't see it making much difference if you were in second though as you still can be drawn to hard teams other than pot 4. Then again, it can play a huge impact too if you get the right or wrong draw. Also, this is football anything can happen. Who expected Greece to win Euro 2004?

First, of all the bowls HAVE NOT been released yet. That is most likely what they WILL look like, but they HAVE NOT BEEN RELEASED YET.

Second, this is the way they always do it. Hosts and top seeds go into Pot1, other European teams go into Pot2, and the last 2 Pots are fixed to group together teams by the confederation they qualified out of. Why? Because the groups are now always arranged to keep teams from the same confederation from facing each other in the 1st round other than the European teams, and in their case, only 2 teams can be in the same group. The last 2 pots are always fixed to try get an even split and fit 8 teams in a Pot.

Face it, it's the way these guys do it. The could seed all the teams and still keep their objectives, but they'd rather do it this way. This way teams like USA and Mexico are just about guaranteed to be in a group of death.

actually, the bowls are supposed to avoid big teams to face each others in the beginning of the tournament (and that's the case in ALL sports). It makes the knock out rounds more exciting and these teams are the best ranked in the FIFA ranking. They have more points = they deserve some advantage.

the bowls second objective is to avoid teams of the same continent to play each others early in the tournament. If you put mexico in a bowl, usa in another and honduras in a third, there's a chance that they'll form a group, And that was already their zone qualifying table.

And YES, Mexico is better than most (all?) of the teams in their bowl

I feel like the Netherlands either got a great deal here or they got shafted. They are definitely the best team in bowl 2 and if they go against one of the top teams like spain or brazil they could be out early. However if they get lucky and land south africa or even germany or france who havent been on top form recently they could have a serious shot at the cup considering they are a top class team

It's all furking fixed! Look at the way bloody Platini fiddled it so that France would get an "easy" qualifying tie.

There is no honesty or honour among those who administrate or play football.

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