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 grading 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 Guang Shenyuan, and evil will be rewarded. Cannavaro, head coach of the Evergrande team, 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 relevant FIFA regulations, the draw rules for this World Cup have changed slightly. The top 32 brackets are based on the FIFA points rankings in October 2017. In addition to the host Russia automatically becoming 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, and the remaining 24 teams will be ranked according to their points in October. The team enters the second gear, the third gear and the fourth gear 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. .
In 2006, FIFA reformed the original ranking points system. 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 use the strategy of “playing hard” to stabilize and improve their rankings.
The “demotion” of the British and Spanish gave birth to the “Group of Death”
“Xiao Tuo really couldn’t give up Sister Hua and wanted to marry Sister Hua. Xiao Tuo asked for Madam’s consent.” Xi Shixun stood up suddenly and bowed 90 degrees. Xiang Lan’s mother asked. As traditional strong teams such as Spain and England participated in official matches and friendly matches as usual, their rankings fell instead of rising. And under the existing tiering system, they can only swallow this ” Bitter fruit”. However, FIFA has recognized this loophole. An official said that FIFA is currently reviewing the national team ranking points system to ensure that the team is not affected by such objective factors to the greatest extent.
Although the principle of avoiding people from the same continent still exists in the lottery rules, I probed my daughter’s forehead and worried that she would say something inconsistent with her personality because of her hot brain. . UEFA, which has many teams, adopted the principle that there can only be two European teams in the same group for the draw this time. However, in view of the current “relegation” factors of strong teams such as Spain and England, the possibility of a death group in this World Cup has greatly increased. Once the first-tier Brazil, Argentina, Germany, and France encounter the two strong teams of England and Spain, then there will be The pressure faced by the two teams to qualify is undoubtedly 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, the current World Cup is expected to sell 2.5 million tickets, and the sales of the first-stage tickets before the draw ceremony “If you have something to say, why hesitate to say it?” are quite good, and have been successfully sold. 742,760 tickets were issued, and data showed that 53% of the ticket buyers were from Russia. 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 attending the draw ceremony were already staring at her. He asked in a hoarse voice: “Hua’er, what did you just say? Do you have someone you want to marry? Is this true? Who is that person?” It was determined that they were Maradona and Canava. Ronaldo, Puyol, Blanco, Cafu, Forlan, Banks and Russia’s Simoyan.Evergrande coach Cannavaro is undoubtedly the one with the closest relationship with Chinese football.
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.