Inside the Six, Ep. #54: World Cup Mock Draw
With the field set for the 2010 World Cup, the next step in the competition is the draw. On December 4, FIFA will draw the 32 qualified teams into the 8-4 team groups. How FIFA goes about doing that remains mysterious to some. That’s where this podcast comes in.
On Episode 54 of Inside the Six, I welcome back Jared Dubois and Dave Topp. Together we do a mock World Cup draw, going through the steps FIFA will take in allocating the qualified teams into the 32-team field. I help explain the seeding, the likely pods, and by walking through an actual draw, we get an idea of what some groups of deaths are likely to look like, how the easy groups will appear, and the task the United States Men’s National Team has in front of them.
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About Richard Farley
Richard Farley is a U.S.-based contributor to World Soccer Reader. He also hosts Inside the Six, the site's regular podcast. He can be reached at richardfarley at gmail dot com and followed on Twitter, username "richardfarley." And while you are at it, feel free to check out RF Football.
Great faux pod, interesting seeding, a very good listen.
how can you say the U.S. getting a seed would make too much of a difference. It would just relegate a better european team to a second pot, they’d either still be facing the same teams, or you would create a large number of groups of death. The U.S has no argument for a seed. The top 2 teams make the next round, not just the seeded team. How can you say the U.S. deserves a seed when they can’t beat Ghana or the Czech rep.
I assume you’re talking about Jared’s comments re: every confederation deserving a seed? I don’t know for sure – the show was a while ago.
His comments, as I recall, were less about the U.S. and more about perceived inequities between regions.