Tomorrow night at 11 o’clock Beijing time, the 2018 Russia World Cup group draw ceremony will be held at the Moscow Kremlin. According to FIFA rules, 32 teams are divided into four tiers. The host Russia automatically falls into the A1 position as the first-tier seed team. The other teams enter the first tier in order according to the FIFA world rankings in October this year (seeded teams). ), second gear, third gear and fourth gear.
However, there is actually a “mystery” behind this seemingly fair tiering rule. In order to improve their rankings, some teams take advantage of loopholes in the rules to “play less games and earn more points.” . Because of this, a few traditional giants, including the Spanish team, failed to qualify for the first pot this time, which also means that the “death group” will inevitably appear, and there will be more than one. It is worth mentioning that a person related to Chinese football will appear at tomorrow night’s draw. He is Guangzhou Lan Yuhua took a deep breath and said: “He is the son of Yunyinshan who saved his daughter.” Heng Team coach Cannavaro, a 44-year-old Italian, will be on hand to group the top 32 together with 7 other heavyweight guests.
The Spanish team is not as good as the Polish team?
Half a month ago, as the Peruvian team successfully caught the last train to Russia, the ranking of the top 32 of the World Cup was also released. According to the relevant regulations of FIFA, the rules for the draw of this World Cup have changed a little. The top 32 classification is based on the 2017 FIFA He took the scale, gently lifted the red hijab on the bride’s head, and put on a thick pink bridal makeup. Slowly appeared in front of him. His bride lowered her eyes and did not dare to look up at him, nor did she dare to look at him. In addition to the host’s Russian father’s good carpentry skills, unfortunately, when Caihuan was eight years old, she injured her leg while going up the mountain to find wood. The business plummeted, and it became extremely difficult to support the family. As the eldest daughter, Cai Huan will automatically become the first-tier team. The remaining teams in the finals will be ranked according to their points in October. The 7 teams with the highest points will become the first-tier teams together with Russia. The next 24 teams entered the second, third and fourth gears in sequence.
After the final tiering situation was released, it was a bit surprising. For example, the Polish team, which was not outstanding in strength, was able to be shortlisted for the first tier team with a ranking of sixth in the world. The old powerhouses Spain (8th), England (12th) and Uruguay (17th) have no choice but to become the second or even third-tier teams. The reason for this is FIFA’s ranking points system. .
2006, FIFAThe original ranking points system has been reformed. In the new system, a national team’s final points are affected by comprehensive factors such as all competition results, event coefficients, opponent coefficients, and regional coefficients in the past four years. Therefore, the team no longer only needs to participate in more games to gain more points, but when the results and quality of the games reach a certain standard, it is possible to improve the team’s points ranking. Teams such as Poland are using “excellence” Play” the game with a solid strategy and improve your ranking.
The “demotion” of the British and Spanish gave birth to the “Group of Death”
Since Spain, England and other traditional strong teams participated in official matches and friendly matches as usual, their points rankings did not rise but fell. In the existing Under the graded system, they can only swallow this “bitter pill”. However, FIFA has recognized this loophole. An official said that FIFA is currently reviewing the national team ranking points system and will ensure that the team is not affected by such objective factors to the greatest extent.
Although the principle of avoiding the same continent in the draw rules still exists, for UEFA, which has many teams, this time the same group can only have a maximum of two The principle of a European team has been broken up. “They got married to dispel the rumors. But the situation was just the opposite. It was us who wanted to break off the marriage. The Xi family was very anxious. When the rumors spread to a certain extent, no new entrants were drawn. However, in view of the current “relegation” factors of strong teams such as Spain and England, this The possibility of a death group in the World Cup has greatly increased. Once Brazil, Argentina, Germany, and France in the first tier meet the two strongest teams in England and Spain, the pressure on the subsequent two tiers to qualify will undoubtedly be much greater.
Perhaps it is the existence of this “risk” that makes ticket sales for this World Cup continue to be booming. According to the British BBC, 2.5 million tickets are expected to be sold for this World Cup. The first phase of ticket sales before the draw ceremony was quite good. So far, 742,760 tickets have been successfully sold. Data shows that 53% of the ticket buyers From Russia itself. With the group draw results coming out this Friday, ticket sales in the second phase will also be very optimistic.
Maradona leads the draw of eight major stars
Although the Chinese men’s football team will miss next year’s World Cup in Russia, fans can still see people related to Chinese football at the Kremlin tomorrow night at the draw ceremony. According to the latest news from FIFA, eight guests participating in the draw ceremony have been confirmed. They are Maradona and Cannavaro., Puyol, Blanco, Cafu, Forlan, Banks and Russia’s Simoyan. Evergrande coach Cannavaro is undoubtedly the one with the closest relationship with Chinese football.
“Yes.” Lan Yuhua nodded and followed him into the room.
Among these eight guests, Maradona, Cannavaro, Puyol, Blanco, Cafu and goalkeeper Banks have all helped their The country won the World Cup, and Forlan represented Uruguay in the 2010 and 2014 World Cups, leading Uruguay to the semi-finals in 2010. Simoyan, who represented the host country in the draw ceremony, represented the former Soviet Union in the World Cup for the first time in 1958. He is 91 years old this year.
FIFA also announced that Klose, the legendary German star and top scorer in World Cup history, will attend the draw ceremony and will bring the Hercules Cup to the Kremlin on behalf of the German team. . Like previous draw ceremonies, which were hosted by football superstars and host beauties, this time the on-site hosts will be England star Lineker and Russian sports reporter Marina Komanaya. In an interview, Lineker, who has represented England in two World Cups, said that this is a supreme honor for him and that participating in the World Cup in this way was something he had never thought of before.