World Cup draw positions to determine Portugal’s selection at the buzzer
Xinhua News Agency, Lisbon, March 31. In the latest men’s national team rankings announced by FIFA on the 31st, the Portuguese team led by Ronaldo continued to rank eighth in the world, and therefore will be held in the Qatar World Cup on April 1. Seed teams in the group draw.
Brazil overtook Belgium to first place in this list, which dropped to second. The third to eighth teams remain unchanged and remain France, Argentina, England, Italy, Spain and Portugal. In addition to the upset Italian team, the remaining seven teams in the top eight will be the first team in the group draw together with the host Qatar.
It is worth mentioning that the Italian team is also the only team among the top 16 teams in this list that did not qualify for the World Cup. Teams ranked ninth to sixteenth will be the second pot in the group draw. They are Mexico, Netherlands, Denmark, Germany, Uruguay, Switzerland, USA and Croatia.
According to this ranking, the third pot is the European teams Poland and Serbia, Senegal, Morocco and Tunisia who broke through the African qualifiers, and Iran, Japan and South Korea in Asia.
Pot four includes Cameroon, Canada, Ecuador, Saudi Arabia and Ghana. The three teams that have not yet been confirmed will be between Wales and Scotland/Ukraine, Costa Rica and New Zealand, and Peru and Australia/UAE. According to the draw rules announced by FIFA, the three final qualifying teams will be directly classified into the fourth pot.
After qualifying for the World Cup through the play-offs for the third time, the Portuguese team is looking forward to a World Cup journey that will begin in November 2022. The old coach Santos said quite meaningfully that the Portuguese team, which has won a European Championship and a UEFA Champions League trophy, is now chasing the “dream” of the World Cup.