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Follow-up – Ahmed Al-Nafili
The draw for the European qualifiers for the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 ™ was withdrawn on Monday evening at FIFA headquarters in Zurich, leading to strong and anticipated clashes, notably the fact that the national team Belgium, the world ranking leader, fell to the Welsh team in Group 5. The French team will also face world champion Ukraine. In Group D, the Portuguese team, champions of Euro 2016, reached Group A with Serbia.
And through a virtual ceremony for the repercussions of the emerging coronavirus, the lottery that resulted in the following ten groups was withdrawn
The first group: Portugal – Serbia – Republic of Ireland – Luxembourg – Azerbaijan
the second group: Spain – Sweden – Greece – Georgia – Kosovo
The third groupItaly – Switzerland – Northern Ireland – Bulgaria – Lithuania
Fourth group: France – Ukraine – Finland – Bosnia and Herzegovina – Kazakhstan
Fifth group: Belgium – Wales – Czech Republic – Belarus – Estonia
Sixth group: Denmark – Austria – Scotland – the Zionist entity – Faroe Islands – Moldova
The seventh group: Netherlands – Turkey – Norway – Montenegro – Latvia – Gibraltar
Eighth group: Croatia – Slovakia – Russia – Slovenia – Cyprus – Malta
Ninth group: England – Poland – Hungary – Albania – Andorra – San Marino
Group ten: Germany – Romania – Iceland – North Macedonia – Armenia – Liechtenstein
Classification system
The champions of each of the ten groups qualify directly for the final.
As for the second classified of the ten groups, they compete in a play-off that includes the best teams from the group stage of the Nations League 2020-2021, who were unlucky enough to qualify through the traditional qualifiers.
The supplement, scheduled for March 2022, results in the qualification of three additional teams, with 13 European teams participating in Qatar out of 32.
In the supplement, the 12 teams are divided into three different courts of direct knockout matches, so whoever wins in two consecutive matches will qualify for the World Cup.
Lottery procedures
The events of the drawing of the drawing began with a meeting with the former star of the Italian team Daniele De Rossi, who was crowned with his country in the 2006 World Cup, and one of the most outstanding players of the Dutch team who got second place at the 2010 World Cup Finals, Raphael van der Vaart, where both protagonists talked about their memories of participating in the World Cup and the most difficult ones. The teams he faced and the memorable situations for both.
After that, wonderful clips were shown of the French team’s historic journey to the 2018 World Cup, which ended with their world title victory.
Van der Vaart commented on these images, saying they are wonderful memories that reminded us of the huge and pleasant crowd at the last World Cup, a wonderful presence that we are currently deprived of, and we hope that fans will quickly return to the stadiums of football.
Before carrying out the draw, an explanatory film was shown explaining the lottery system and how to withdraw it, in addition to some restrictions that prevent some teams from falling into certain groups, such as countries that suffer from difficult weather conditions or countries located on the outskirts of the old continent. , which forces your trips to make long trips.
And then he introduced the lottery process and explained it to FIFA’s director of competitions Jaime Yarza, and then the lottery started in a practical and official way after that.
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