Qatar World Cup
Big guess
00:00 Qatar World Cup draw on 2 April
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With the U.S. and Mexico on The bus on March 31, FIFA immediately launched the latest edition of the national team rankings, and quickly announced that the World Cup draw would be held while the iron was hot on April 2 - a bit too hot, in fact, 29 of the 32 World Cup places were fixed, and it was not officially announced until June.
But it doesn't matter, there is no big guy in the team that is expected to advance, and there is no big guy who can cause controversy and variables, and it is fixed. It does not affect the biggest attraction of this year's World Cup draw: the group stage may not only draw the dead group, but also the Golden Ball group.
One of the conjectures
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The Golden Globe is missing one of the three
How many Golden Ball and World Footballer of the Year winners are on the stage of the Qatar World Cup? Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, Modric, and Lewandowski – the first three are all proud of the two-in-one era, while Lewandowski has only two world footballers in 2020 and 2021, and the Golden Ball Awards in the same year are cancelled and one is given to Messi.
Interestingly, apart from Argentina and Portugal, who are both in the first gear and impossible to draw together, Croatia in the second gear and Poland in the third gear can perfectly draw with Argentina to form the "Mr. Ballon d'Or three missing one" group. It's just a pity that the fourth team is slightly worse than the grade, the only one who is a bit of a gimmick, Wales could have contributed hundreds of millions of dollars Mr. Bell, but unfortunately Wales is a European team can't draw together.
Conjecture two
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Super Death Squad
Obviously, since the host Qatar is clearly not strong enough to occupy the top eight positions, this will inevitably lead to an increase in the probability of the death team. Who is unluckiest this year? There is no doubt about Germany.
Although Germany returned from the feather four years ago and can only rank in the second gear at present, the strength of this team is beyond doubt, and the first team has almost suffered a lot on them, such as Brazil's 1-7, Argentina's 1-4, Portugal's 2-4, etc., and France and Britain are also the sworn enemies of German football, full of topicality.
But given that the non-European teams in the third bracket are not outstanding, the best way to form a group of deaths is for Germany to touch Brazil or Argentina, then the third gear to Poland, the fourth gear Cameroon to join in the fun; another more suspenseful combination is senegal in the third gear with the Fourth gear of the European team, whether Wales or Scotland will be interesting.
Conjecture number three
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variable
This World Cup draw is probably the noisiest one ever. In the past, the lottery has already won the ranking, and there are not so many international disputes. But this time is different, it is really lively.
The recent troubles have come from Iran. Not long ago, rumors broke out in Iran that female fans were shut out, which is said to have aroused the attention of FIFA. Italian media say that FIFA is considering banning Iran from the World Cup – apparently they are playing the idea of Italy as a substitute, after all, Italy ranks highest among all the teams that did not get tickets. However, this possibility is really unlikely, Iran will not be banned, not to mention, even if the ban is reasonable, it should be an Asian team.
The most well-known trouble comes from Ukraine and his England everywhere. Since the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, the Ukrainian football world has always been very lively, and various voices have risen and fallen, demanding that Ukraine be directly sent to the World Cup. Interestingly, Ukraine met the Most Enthusiastic Britons – Scotland and Wales – this time. According to the rules, Ukraine needs to beat these two teams in a row to reach the World Cup. To this end, a war of words broke out within the United Kingdom, with England saying that ukraine should be abstained from promotion, and Scotland and Wales saying: Why don't you abstain. In the end, it was estimated that it was a lot of excitement, and Ukraine was out as usual.
But now the British man's thinking is more peculiar, and you never know what tricks he will play tomorrow. They have recently set their sights on Qatar's so-called rights issues, with some advocating for England to boycott the World Cup in protest. This scared England coach Southgate enough, and then very politely but firmly stated: I think you are making some sense, but I refuse.
Text/Hubei Daily reporter Guo Xiaoming
Photo: Xinhua News Agency, Weibo