FIFA World Cup 2014 Qualifying

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How did the USA lose to Honduras? If they don't beat Costa Rica next month, they could be in real trouble going into the Mexico clash.

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Finland tie it up! Bwahahaha!

Excellent

England win 8-0 over San Marino (pub team), our biggest result since beating Turkey 8-0 in 1987. Also, Wales defeat Scotland in Glasgow!

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Japan can officially qualify for the World Cup Finals today if they get a point in Amman, Jordan. But at half time they are losing 1-0.

Also New Zealand won the OFC Qualifying Group - taking them to the inter-continental play off against CONCACAF's 4th placed team.

 

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Interesting news about the final draw in December.

The seeded teams (Pot 1) will include Brazil (Hosts) and the seven top-ranked teams. The remaining pots will be based on geographic and sports criteria. The FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking of October 2013 (released on 17 Oct) will be used instead of the November ranking as this would give the teams involved in the upcoming play-off games an unfair advantage.

So the potential seeded teams will be:

Brazil, Spain, Germany, Argentina, Italy, Colombia, Switzerland and one of Belgium/Croatia/Uruguay/Netherlands* (*depends on outcome of final qualifiers/play offs)     

This means that England will more than likely miss out on seeding along with the USA. France and Portugal (if qualified) will not feature in top seeds as well. 

More information: http://www.football-rankings.info/2013/09/fifa-ranking-october-2013-probable_20.html

Whatever happens, there will definitely be a lot of 'Group of Deaths' this time

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Mexico vs. New Zealand and Jordan vs. Uruguay tomorrow!

Mexico to win 3-0.

Jordan to win 1-0.

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Ronaldo. Wow.