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Chapter 1194
As of November 11th, the 20 qualified teams for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil have all been produced.

Like the Chinese team that escaped from the dead, in the European region, the old strong teams Netherlands, England, and Portugal rely on the team's big-name players and rich experience in major competitions to pass the risk. Into the World Cup, in Africa, the traditional powerhouse Cameroon, Nigeria last round thrilling advance.

In the previous two World Cups, Li Huan, the world's number one star, did not have the opportunity to participate, which made the World Cup look a lot worse. In this World Cup, Li Huan finally joined China, but at that time, the Chinese team was close to death. Many fans thought that Li Huan was going through the motions this time to realize his dream. Forget it, but no one would have thought that Li Huan would actually enter the World Cup with the 7-day-old Chinese team.

This result made countless fans breathe a sigh of relief.Almost everyone agrees that it would be an irreparable pity if there is no such once-in-a-century star like Li Huan in the highest level of competition in the football world!

After the end of the World Cup qualifiers, the leagues on all continents are still in full swing, winning the championship, relegation, Champions League seats, and Europa League seats are also in full swing. It seems that everything is the same as in non-World Cup years, but in fact the World Cup The influence has silently penetrated into the league, the Champions League and the lives of players and fans.

First of all, the end time of the league has been brought forward, the winter break has been shortened, and the players who are eligible to participate in the World Cup are starting to stay. All kinds of news about the World Cup are gradually increasing. Commercials and pictures of the World Cup in Brazil are everywhere, especially outside of Europe. In mainland China, their level of football professionalization is not high, and the domestic league level is even lower. The fans are like children who haven't eaten fishy food for three months, and they are all waiting for the World Cup to start enjoying a big meal.

Two weeks after the end of the World Cup qualifiers, the topic of fans all over the world is inseparable from the four words of the group draw. In addition to the World Cup qualifiers, the World Cup group draw on December 12 also determines the 4 teams that will advance to the World Cup finals The fate of the team.

According to the principle of the World Cup group draw, there cannot be two teams from the same continent in the same group, except for Europe. All participating teams will also be divided into four grades, and the seats will be matched.In order to avoid the premature encounter of strong teams, the eight teams with the highest FIFA rankings will become the seeded teams and be listed in the first pot.Brazil will automatically become A1, other seeded teams will be assigned to B1-H1 by lottery
Spain, Netherlands, Italy, Germany, Portugal, England, Argentina and hosts Brazil make up the eight seeded teams
Pot 5 teams (including 3 Asian teams, [-] South American teams): Australia, South Korea, Japan, China, Saudi Arabia, Paraguay, Chile, Uruguay
Pot 5 teams (including 3 African teams and [-] Central American and Caribbean teams): South Africa, Cameroon, Nigeria, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, United States, Mexico, Honduras,

Pot 8 teams ([-] remaining European teams): Czech Republic, France, Greece, Switzerland, Sweden, Croatia, Russia, Turkey
France, Portugal, Croatia, who will make the Group of Death?Who among the traditional tycoons will be lucky to draw a good lottery to avoid France, Portugal, and Croatia?Who will be the unlucky one in the World Cup draw?All these questions await the announcement of the results of Brazil's non-World Cup draw on December 12.However, under the background of a series of shady scenes such as gambling and black whistle, the authenticity of the Brazil World Cup draw has aroused public opinion.Rumors that the XX team will be hacked in the lottery have spread like wildfire, but is this the scheming of malicious people, or is it a well-known unspoken rule?For commercial interests and to ensure the attractiveness of the World Cup, will FIFA sacrifice the interests of some teams?In the previous World Cup group draws, each time it caused a lot of skeptical voices, and this year will certainly be no exception.

BJ时间12月5日凌晨1点55，2010南非世界杯小组赛抽签仪式在巴西最大的城市圣保罗的国际会议中心举行。来自全球各地的2200多名媒体记者及200多家电视台将对此次抽签仪式进行报道。

The number of reporters participating in the draw ceremony this time is the most in history, mainly because the Chinese team entered the World Cup finals, and China has thousands of football reporters in a very short period of time.

The head coach of the Chinese team, Li Huan, has no time to go to the scene because he is still in La Liga and Champions League matches. The Chinese team's assistant coach, Chu Fu, is authorized to represent Li Huan in this grand draw ceremony, and Li Huan can only watch this event on TV in Spain. The whole process of the lottery ceremony.

Before the lottery draw, the organizing committee took the lead in arranging the red carpet ceremony. The top 32 World Cups passed by in alphabetical order of the country names. The defending champion Argentina played first, and the final finale was the host Brazil.Representatives of the World Cup Organizing Committee and FIFA Executive Committee then walked through the red carpet, and the last ones appeared were FIFA President Sepp Blatter and Brazilian Female President Dilma Rousseff.

For the 28 million fans waiting in front of the TV, for the journalists and players of the World Cup participating countries, the essence of the World Cup draw ceremony is in the short [-]-minute group draw; but for the organizer South Africa Organizing Committee, For FIFA, major media and TV broadcasters, the draw ceremony is an inseparable whole. They don't care how uneasy you are about the result of the draw. The key is to complete a grand ceremony satisfactorily.

The lottery ceremony started with the beautiful scenery of Sao Paulo from the aerial photography. At the scene, Ivete Sangalo, the winner of the Grammy Latin song and the most popular singer in Brazil, brought a song full of strong South American style, as the first singer in the legendary Madison Garden in New York The Brazilian artist who performed on the square, Ivete Sangalo, may not be familiar to fans, but the next person to appear on the stage is the old football king Edson Arantes Donascimento, also known as Pele, who is familiar to fans all over the world. . . . . . . . . . .

Pele expressed his heartfelt blessings on behalf of the journalists and head coaches who have always participated in the draw ceremony in Brazil. Pele hoped that all the head coaches present could achieve good results in the Brazil World Cup.

In view of Pele's nickname Bei Crow, the person in his crow's mouth must die. All the coaches who were blessed by him were terrified and pessimistic about the future. Some reporters jokingly said: Only the Brazilian team has not been blessed by the king. It looks like Brazil will definitely win this World Cup.

FIFA President Sepp Blatter was the main character in the draw ceremony. The long-sleeved and skillful Sepp Blatter even made Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff feel a little downcast.A joke at the beginning: "When I didn't go to Brazil, I was full of enthusiasm for the football kingdom. As soon as I saw the host, I couldn't help falling in love with Brazil!" Quickly shortened the distance between myself and the Brazilian people.South African President Dilma Rousseff.His speech was slightly official: "I hope that the World Cup will allow fans all over the world to know more about Brazil, understand the culture and history of the Americas better, and recognize the superb football skills of the Americans. I hope everyone can have a good time in Brazil. of a month."

The first climax of the draw ceremony came from the debut of the Hercules Cup.As a necessary procedure of each World Cup, representatives of the Argentine Football Association slowly walked out of the backstage holding the Hercules Cup and handing it back to FIFA.But the Argentine is obviously reluctant to part with the Hercules Cup: "We are confident that we will hand over the Hercules Cup to Brazil first, but we will take it back next year!"

After a few heartwarming conversations between the old man and the children about the history of the World Cup, the beautiful host Luciana Bertolini invited FIFA Secretary-General Walker.

As usual, Mr. Walker introduced all the rules of the drawing of lots.As the lottery guests stepped onto the stage one by one, the exciting lottery ceremony began.

Walker first affirmed the preparations for the World Cup in South Africa, and then he gave a brief introduction to the draw process.After the introduction, the lottery began. The famous Brazilian star Ronaldo and the famous England star Beckham became the guests of the lottery.

The first team to be drawn was the first-tier team. Brazil entered Group A without any suspense, and then England was drawn out, and they entered Group B.Defending champion Argentina was drawn third and entered Group C, while Portugal entered Group D.Germany was drawn fifth and entered Group E, followed by Spain in Group F.In the end, the Netherlands entered Group G and Italy entered Group H.

The first round of lottery was uneventful, followed by the second round of lottery. The second round directly determined the difficulty of qualifying for the group. The venue and the audience in front of the TV became nervous.

South Korea was drawn first, and he entered position A2.The second team to be drawn was Mexico, who entered position B3.Afterwards, Australia was drawn at C2, while the United States entered D2.Japan was drawn fifth, they entered the E3 position, while China entered the F3 position.The last two teams, Saudi Arabia into the G2 position, Honduras into the H3 position.

The second round of lottery ended, and the scene immediately became chaotic. Everyone was talking about the pros and cons of their country's lottery. Among them, the Chinese team and the Japanese team had the ugliest expressions because they just got their nemesis. The Chinese team and Spain got it. At the same time, what the Chinese team with rough technology is most afraid of is the extremely delicate team of Spain. During the warm-up match, Spain once beat the Chinese team with four goals.The Japanese team has exquisite skills, and what they are most afraid of is the unreasonable and strong overall header team like Germany. After the lottery is drawn, it has almost been decided that the Chinese team and the Japanese team can give up their dream of being first in the group.

Liu Yang, who was sitting with Li Huan watching the lottery ceremony, punched the table depressedly, and said, "Damn, why is it so bad that Spain was drawn."

Li Huan was very calm, and said: "It doesn't matter, anyway, the first and second are the same, the important thing is the last two opponents. Just don't be France and Croatia."

After the conclusion of the second draw, the third draw begins.The first to be drawn was Côte d'Ivoire, who entered position B2.Uruguay was then drawn into position G3.Nigeria entered position C3 and South Africa drew position A3.Chile was drawn fifth, and they moved into position D4, while Cameroon moved into position E4.In the end, Paraguay was drawn into position F2 and Ghana into position H4.
Seeing that the third opponent in the group was Paraguay, Li Huan and Liu Yang's expressions were bitter again. Paraguay's defense is superb, known as Italy in South America, and their skills are very good, it is definitely a difficult team. It's a hard bone to gnaw, and it's really uncomfortable to be in a group with them.

The final draw is for the fourth-tier teams.The first team to be drawn was France, who entered position A4.After that, Greece entered the B4 position.The Czech Republic entered the C4 position, and Croatia entered the D3 position.The fifth team to be drawn was Sweden, who moved into position E2, while Turkey moved into position F4.In the end, Portugal moved into position G4, while Russia moved into position H2.

So far, the 8 groups have been drawn and grouped, and the death group is the D group with the most average strength.

Group A: Brazil, France, South Africa, South Korea
Group B: England, Mexico, Ivory Coast, Greece

Group C: Argentina, Australia, Nigeria, Czech Republic
Group D: Portugal, United States, Chile, Croatia

Group E: Germany, Sweden, Japan, Cameroon
Group F: Spain, China, Paraguay, Türkiye
Group G: Netherlands, Switzerland, Uruguay, Saudi Arabia

Group H: Italy, Russia, Ghana, Honduras

After the lottery was over, the scene became lively. The teams that got the ideal lottery were all smiling, pretending to be modest and dissatisfied, and the teams that got the death group were all frowning and forced to smile.

In addition to the depression of being drawn into the death group, the Japanese team and the Chinese team are also very uncomfortable. Look at the group of the Japanese team. Germany, Sweden, and Cameroon are tougher than each other, stronger than the other, and their skills are weaker. The Japanese team caught in the middle is really about to be played by others.

And the Chinese team is also very depressed, Spain is the originator of technology, Xavi, Iniesta, Cesc Fabregas, these are master level ball control masters, Iker Casillas is the world's number one goalkeeper, they are sure to get For one qualifying spot, Paraguay must have the overall team, and its personal skills are no worse than any other strong team. Turkey is a descendant of the Turkic people. Chinese people with a bit of history know how cruel the Turkic people are. Playing games with them is almost like fighting. 02 In the 3 World Cup, the Chinese team was wiped out by them with [-] goals.The Chinese team finally hoped that Li Huan would change his mind to participate in the World Cup, but in the end he was drawn into such a group, and hundreds of millions of Chinese fans almost scolded him.

Of course, in addition to the troubles of poor people like Japan and China who have nothing to cover their bodies and food, wealthy families also have dissatisfaction, such as Brazil. As the host, they enjoy special treatment, but FIFA just stuffs them in. A French team disgusts them. You must know that the French team is Brazil's nemesis. Since the 98 World Cup, Brazil has not won the French team. Now Brazil has to worry about the first place in the group.

(End of this chapter)