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Soccer America's best and worst case scenarios:
WORST CASE
Brazil
USA
Ghana
France
BEST CASE
South Africa
USA
Uruguay
Slovakia
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What is South Africa's world ranking? I think there is a little too much respect being paid to the home team in 2010.
Kids play sports because they find it fun. Eliminate the fun and soon you eliminate the kid.
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South Africa are ranked 86 in the Nov 20 FIFA/Coca-Cola World ranking.
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FIFA Organising Committee approves Final Draw procedure
(FIFA.com) Wednesday 2 December 2009
The FIFA Organising Committee approved today the procedure for the Final Draw of the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa™, which will be held in Cape Town on Friday 4 December. The seeding was based on the October 2009 FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking, and Brazil, Spain, the Netherlands, Italy, Germany, Argentina and England are therefore the seven squads that join hosts South Africa as seeded teams for the Final Draw.
The committee also approved the composition of the other pots as well as the procedure for the final draw:
• Pot 2 will be composed of teams from Asia (Australia, Japan, Korea DPR, Korea Republic), North, Central America and the Caribbean (Honduras, Mexico, USA) and Oceania (New Zealand)
• Pot 3 will include teams from Africa (Algeria, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Nigeria) and South America (Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay)
• Pot 4 will have the remaining European teams (Denmark, France, Greece, Portugal, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Switzerland)
• hosts South Africa will be automatically positioned as A1; the other seeded teams will be drawn into the other groups B-H, but will always be in position “1” of their group
• groups will be drawn from A to H and the positions in the group will be drawn for Pots 2 to 4
• geographical criteria will also be respected, meaning that no two teams from the same confederation will be drawn in the same group (except European teams, where a maximum of two will be in a group). For example, South Africa cannot play the African teams from Pot 3 and Argentina and Brazil cannot be drawn against the three remaining South American teams.
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Note that the seedings being used for the draw are based on the October World Rankings which are different than the current rankings which are the ones shown in Kyle's post. The seeded teams other than South Africa were ranked 1-7 in the October ranking: 1 Brazil 2 Spain 3 Netherlands 4 Italy 5 Germany 6 Argentina 7 England
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South Africa will get one of the three South American teams out of Pot 3. Odds are that the US will get an African team, rather than a South American team, out of Pot 3.
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South Africa will get one of the three South American teams out of Pot 3. Odds are that the US will get an African team, rather than a South American team, out of Pot 3.
Unless the USA is drawn into group A with South Africa. We can only hope.
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If they get drawn into Group A with South Africa, I'll take a South American team! Then it comes down to Pot 4, can we avoid France & Portugal. 
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BEST CASE
South Africa
USA
Uruguay
Slovakia
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USA in with England, Slovenia and Algeria. june 12th at 2:30 USA V England.
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