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Former Brazilian soccer participant Cafu takes half within the 2022 World Cup attract Qatar.
(Hussein Sayed / Related Press)
The draw is the process used to assign the qualifying World Cup nations into 12 teams of 4 groups every. That may decide who, when and the place every nation will play within the first spherical of the match.
To start the draw, the groups are divided into 4 pots of 12 groups based mostly on the FIFA world rankings printed Nov. 19. Staff will probably be randomly chosen — or drawn — from every pot and assigned to one of many World Cup teams, lettered A via L in alphabetical order. Groups from the identical pot can’t be assigned to the identical group nor can groups from the identical FIFA confederation.
The one exception is groups from UEFA, the large confederation overseeing European soccer. It’ll ship 16 groups to the World Cup, which means two UEFA groups will probably be paired in 4 totally different teams.
