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No matter how much we emphasize that the closed training will not be disturbed by the outside world, it is impossible for the national team to prevent the players from watching the World Cup group draw ceremony in the middle of the night.Therefore, on this evening, everyone was allowed to watch the draw ceremony in the restaurant of the training base.

In order to allow everyone to see clearly, the team specially dismantled a super-large-screen TV from outside, and made the restaurant prepare snacks that can fill people's stomachs at night before get off work.

In this way, the players who should have turned off the lights and went to bed at this time on weekdays survived the long wait and waited for the opening video of the draw ceremony.

According to the lottery rules of the World Cup group stage, countries from all over the world are divided into several different regions.And each region will have different places to enter the World Cup finals.Among them, the one with the most places is the European region, where there are so many strong teams.

The European region has 13 places, the Africa region has 5 places, the Asia region and South America region have 4.5 places each, the Central and North America region has 3.5 places, and the Oceanic region has 0.5 places.

It will be a little easier for regions like Europe and Africa, which have integer places, to compete for places in the World Cup finals.However, the regions with 0.5 more quotas such as Asia, South America, Central North America and Oceania are a little more complicated.Among them, the No.3 teams of the two groups of the top ten teams in the Asian region need to conduct a home and away knockout match, and the winning team will compete with the Oceania region for another place in the World Cup finals.The Central and North American region will be divided into three groups of top twelve teams. The top two teams in each group will enter the round-robin home and away games. The three teams with higher points will directly qualify for the World Cup group stage. No.4 will compete with the No.5 in South America competes for the final qualification.

In this year's World Cup qualifiers, China, Iran, Japan and Saudi Arabia in the Asian region directly qualified for the World Cup finals after the top ten matches in the Asian region.After that, the No.3 South Korea in Group A competed with the No.3 Australia in Group B. The winning Australia went to fight with its neighbor New Zealand, but lost miraculously...

South America is even more upset.Bolivia, with an average altitude of almost 4000 meters, built a new stadium at the highest altitude in the capital, La Paz, and with her hell-based home, Lianke Argentina and Intellect, finally won No.5, and No.4 in Central and North America. When El Salvador fought against each other, they once again defeated the strong team from Central and North America with their hell home.

But compared with Bolivia's miraculous qualifying, it makes people feel that the World Cup group stage must be full of doubts. It is the traditional strong team Argentina that has been reduced to an unseeded team.According to the international rankings for October 2025, FIFA has already announced the eight seeded teams for this World Cup earlier.

In addition to the host United States, Italy, Brazil, Germany, England, the Netherlands, France and Spain together form the eight seeded teams for this World Cup.

The eight seeded teams from Pot [-] will then be drawn into eight different groups.Then, the three teams from different continents will be filled in the eight groups in turn.

But no matter whether he is in the seeded team or not, some teams are unfortunately reduced to unseeded teams even if they are not at their peak, but when he really meets you, you will still be able to understand what is called a veteran team.Therefore, Argentina's unexpected loss of gear before the start of the draw for the World Cup group stage has already doomed this World Cup to have a desperate group of death.

Before the official start of the draw, FIFA once again emphasized the rules of the draw for the group stage.

Then, the eight groups of seeded teams and their corresponding groups appeared on the big screen...

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"Extraordinary extraordinaire!! The results of the World Cup group stage draw have appeared!! Italy, Argentina and Côte d'Ivoire are competing in the same group!!"

"Wow! Who is so unlucky to be with those three branches?"

On the morning when the results of the World Cup group stage draw came out, an ordinary white-collar worker who had been on guard until the end of the World Cup group stage draw ceremony in the middle of the night the previous day rushed into his office.The words he shouted undoubtedly made the colleague who arrived at the office early in the morning and hadn't had time to turn on the computer to sympathize with the unlucky team that was in the same group with the three continental hegemons of Europe, South America, and Africa.

But as soon as this sentence was said, the male colleague who rushed in with the news broke into tears:

"It's our Chinese team!!! God, what is going on here!!!"

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Is there anything more hopeless than not being able to make it to the group stage after thinking about the World Cup for so many years?

Yes, of course.That is the happy No.1 qualifying in the Asian group stage, but just entered the group stage and found that he had drawn the strongest death group in history...

On that night, when everyone saw that Argentina, which had been reduced to an unseeded team in this World Cup, was actually drawn in the same group as Italy, the inexplicable subtle feeling made many people feel uneasy.And when Côte d'Ivoire was also drawn into this group, their mood can almost be described by the phrase "Come on and fill this group!!".It's just that no one expected...the unlucky guy they expected appeared, but it happened to be themselves.

Compared with the desperate signing luck of the Chinese team, their good brother Iran... can almost be described as shit luck.

They were drawn into a group with the host United States, Hungary in the European zone and Tunisia in the African zone...

So the G group where these four teams are located has been dubbed the strongest dick team in history.

However, drawing the group of death can also be beneficial.

The good thing is... the world fans who would never watch their games will reluctantly come to see them because they have to go to Italy and Argentina.But saying that makes me feel even more depressed...

[Parel: One huang and one huang, this is Parel, Parel sent you his kind condolences, the coach said that I will be the main winger in this World Cup! !I've always been looking forward to trying it myself to see how you can shovel people from behind without shoveling people! 】

[Nilva: See you in three weeks, I will take Luka with me. 】

[Innedi: Don't cry, because the sun will always come. 】

[Firmie: Last night Francisco called your name while sleeping and woke up laughing twice. Be careful when you meet him. 】

Facing the congratulatory messages sent by his club teammates, Yue Yihuang always had a feeling of being dumbfounded and extremely complicated.Not to mention, it wasn't just his club teammates who sent him congratulatory messages.

[Christian: Hahahahaha! ! number 11! !You must have offended FIFA! !Certainly! ! ! 】

[Tarion: At first I thought it was a disaster for us to draw in Brazil, but suddenly I remembered that you seem to be in the Chinese team, and I thought our Romania was pretty good. 】

【Ximsen: Don't be sad, you are still young. 】

[Gudes: I just realized that you are from the Chinese team.Don't worry, the Italian team is a very gentlemanly team. I don't think Francisco and Christian will deliberately kick you 7:0.But if you meet us in Portugal, that's not necessarily the case. 】

"Brother Yue! Brother Yue?"

It was Zhang Shaolin, his roommate from the national team, who called Yue Yihuang back from that contemplation.Obviously, the striker of the Chinese team had noticed Yue Yihuang's absence for a long time, but he hesitated for so long before speaking.

Obviously, since the results of the draw came out, the players of the Chinese team have fallen into an extremely depressed mood.

That kind of feeling is like, you have already planned to show your grand plans on a vast battlefield that you have been thinking about for a long time, but you saw two generals fighting each other as soon as you entered the field, and because you were affected, you didn't do anything is already dead...

That was really sad, very sad.

Yue Yihuang: "Shaolin? Is there something wrong?"

Zhang Shaolin: "No... No, it's not that there is no, I just want you to tell me about the players of the Italian and Argentine teams."

Yue Yihuang: "But I don't know many Italian and Argentine players."

Zhang Shaolin: "How can there be! There are so many! The Italian team has Francisco, Christian, Thiar, and Firmi! There are four teammates in your club alone! And I read in the report that you and Xiaoba Joe Mattia also knows? The Argentine team has Igles, Parel, and Nilva!!"

Yue Yihuang: "..."

Hearing Zhang Shaolin earnestly counting the club teammates and personal friends he will meet in the group stage, Yue Yihuang suddenly felt as if his eyes were darkened and he almost failed to stand still.

Zhang Shaolin: "Brother Yue! What's wrong with you, Brother Yue?"

Yue Yihuang: "It's okay, it's just that you said that so I realized that most of the players I know are from these two national teams..."

Zhang Shaolin: "Then you said that I asked who wanted the jersey after the game? How about I tell you in advance, and you also talk to others? Save me handing over the jersey and people ignore me, which is embarrassing."

Yue Yihuang: "As long as you play well on the field and create a threat to them, when you go to them to change their jerseys, they will definitely change them."

Zhang Shaolin: "Really! That's a good thing! Although we will definitely be eliminated in the group stage this time, I will try my best to play well! At least score a fucking goal!"

Yue Yihuang: "..."

Zhang Shaolin: "By the way, brother Yue, what do you think of the defenders in Côte d'Ivoire?"

Yue Yihuang: "..."