FIFA 2010 World Cup Draw Completed

The football fans of the world were earlier today treated to an entertaining event as part of the final draw for the 2010 World Cup. The fans were not watching just to be entertained, they were keen to see what group their nation would fall into.

First out of pot one which contained the seeded nations including the hosts, was in fact the host nation of South Africa. That placed them in group A. The other seeded teams were Argentina, Brazil, England, Germany, Italy, Netherlands and Spain. Each of those countries were selected from pot one to fill position one in each group.

As the draw continued it was Argentina who headed group B, England group C, Germany group D, Netherlands group E, Italy group F, Brazil group G and Spain filled group H.

This process continued as teams were selected from pot two. Mexico were the lucky ones who found their way into group A along with South Africa.

For me as an Australian I had to wait to find that the Socceroos would be in group D along with Germany, Ghana and Serbia.

English fans should be happy as their team has a somewhat easy group and will face USA, Algeria and Slovenia in group C.

A vote on FIFA.com to select the most difficult group shows that group G which contains Brazil, North Korea, Ivory Coast and Portugal is the toughest. 48.68 per cent picked that. Group A was voted next hardest then group D. the easiest is considered to be group F which contains defending champion Italy, Paraguay, New Zealand and Slovakia.

Now we just have to sit back and wait 187 days and the World Cup action will kick-off with a match between host country South Africa and Mexico.

You can view all the World Cup groups at the FIFA.com site

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