With 29 countries confirmed to advance to the finals, the Doha group draw ceremony was held at 1 am on the 2nd.
Korea ranked 29th in FIFA rankings in March and assigned port 3
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(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Bae Jin-nam = The fateful time has come to judge the success or failure of Korean football at the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar, which begins in November.
The Qatar World Cup group draw will be held at the Exhibition and Convention Center in Doha, Qatar, at 1:00 am (local time) on the 2nd (local time) on the 2nd.
Thirty-two countries participate in the World Cup finals, and they are divided into eight groups of four countries.
The draw will be held with 29 countries, including the host country, Qatar, confirmed to advance to the finals.
The remaining three countries will be screened in the Intercontinental Playoff (PO) and European PO to be held in June.
The intercontinental PO, where two tickets will go to the owner, was a battle between New Zealand-Costa Rica and the winner of the Asian PO (United Arab Emirates-Australia) and Peru.
The other one will be taken by the winner of the European PO Group A, which was postponed due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Wales, who advanced to the final by beating Austria, will face the winner of the Scotland-Ukraine match.
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As in the 2018 Russian tournament, all participating countries except the host country were seeded in order of FIFA rankings. It was based on the men’s soccer world rankings announced on March 31.
Of the 29 confirmed countries, Qatar (51st) and the top 7 FIFA ranking teams Brazil (1st), Belgium (2nd), France (3rd), Argentina (4th), England (5th), Spain (7th) and Portugal (8th) enter port 1.
Port 2 includes Mexico (9th), Netherlands (10th), Denmark (11th), Germany (12th), Uruguay (13th), Switzerland (14th), USA (15th), Croatia (16th) ) belongs to. A group with Germany or the Netherlands could be the best ‘group of death’ in this tournament.
Korea, which maintained 29th in the FIFA rankings, is Senegal (20th), Iran (21st), Japan (23rd), Morocco (24th), Serbia (25th), Poland (26th), Tunisia (35th) and port 3
In the last port 4, Cameroon (37th), Canada (38th), Ecuador (46th), Saudi Arabia (49th), and Ghana (60th) were placed. FIFA has decided to put all three teams to be screened in the PO in June, regardless of their ranking, in port 4.
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With Qatar automatically assigned to the 1st place in Group A, in the group lottery, the remaining 7 countries in Port 1 will be selected in turn and placed in the order of Groups B to H. Then, participating countries are drawn by lot in the order of ports 2, 3, and 4 and placed in groups A to H in turn.
As a general rule of the World Cup draw, countries from the same port and from the same continent cannot be placed in a group. However, in Europe, where 13 countries participate, up to two countries can enter a group, so five of the eight groups will have two European teams.
Korea, which entered port 3, will be able to avoid teams such as Senegal, Serbia and Poland belonging to the same port, while also playing against teams with lower FIFA rankings in the group stage.
Korea, which was port 4 at the World Cup in Russia 4 years ago, which was eliminated with 1 win and 2 losses and 3rd place in the group, was tied to a group with powerful teams such as Germany, Sweden and Mexico.
However, no team is as good as any other team in port 4, and this time, the PO team can’t put you down any more. Wales (18th), Peru (22nd), and Ukraine (27th), who are aiming for Qatar through PO, are teams that could enter port 3 in the order of FIFA rankings.
(Seoul = Yonhap News) On the 29th (local time) at Al Maktoum Stadium in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), the 2022 Qatar World Cup Asian Final Qualifier Group A match between Korea and the United Arab Emirates was a 0-1 victory over the United Arab Emirates. ended with After the match, Korean players including Son Heung-min greet the cheering squad in the stands. Korea has already confirmed their qualification for the 10th consecutive World Cup final, but with the defeat that day, they remained on 23 points (7 wins, 2 draws and 1 loss), and Iran (25 points, 8 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss), which they won 2-0 at home against Lebanon. They finished the final qualifier with 2nd place in the group. 2022.3.30 [대한축구협회 제공. 재판매 및 DB 금지] photo@yna.co.kr
For Korea, if you are in a group with Brazil in port 1, Germany or the Netherlands in port 2, and Wales in port 4 (at the time of advancing to the finals), it may be meaningless to enter port 3 with effort.
On the other hand, if you are paired with the United States in Port 2 and Ecuador in Port 4, it is worth trying.
However, experts agree that there is never a happy group for us.
At the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, Korea was evaluated as the best in the group with Belgium, Russia and Algeria. However, in the group stage, the results were worse than in the Russian tournament, where they were at the bottom of the group with 1 draw and 2 losses.
Meanwhile, at the draw ceremony on this day, soccer legends Kafu (Brazil) and Rota Mateus (Germany), Adel Ahmed Malala (Qatar), Ali Daei (Iran), Bora Milutinovic (Serbia/Mexico), J- Jay Okocha (Nigeria), Larva Mager (Algeria) and Tim Cahill (Australia) will participate in the draw.
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