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World Cup draw: United States grouping revealed as team is back playing for soccer supremacy
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America males’s soccer crew can have England, Iran and presumably Wales, Scotland or Ukraine in its World Cup group later this 12 months when the event kicks off in November in Qatar.
The World Cup draw was televised stay on FS1 and streamed on the FOX Sports activities app Friday. The U.S. shall be in Group B with the opposite nations. The final crew within the group remains to be to be determined as a result of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine compelled Ukraine’s crew to maneuver its match towards Scotland to June.
A view of the FIFA World Cup Trophy forward of the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 closing draw on the Doha Exhibition Heart April 1, 2022, in Doha, Qatar.
(Michael Regan/FIFA/FIFA through Getty Photographs)
The highest two groups in every group advance to the knockout stage. The U.S., no less than on paper, is in good standing to make the knockout spherical as its group isn’t precisely the strongest.
Right here’s how the groupings shake out:
Group A
Qatar
Ecuador
Senegal
Netherlands
Group B
The names of World Cup Group B groups England, Iran, the U.S. and a European qualifier are seen through the 2022 soccer World Cup draw on the Doha Exhibition and Conference Heart in Doha, Qatar, Friday, April 1, 2022.
(AP Photograph/Hassan Ammar)
England
Iran
United States
Ukraine/Scotland/Wales
Group C
Argentina
Saudi Arabia
Mexico
Poland
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Group D
France
Austria/UAE/Peru
Denmark
Tunisia
Group E
Spain
Costa Rica/New Zealand
Germany
Japan
Group F
Belgium
Canada
Morocco
Croatia
Group G
Brazil
Serbia
Switzerland
Cameroon
Group H
Portugal
Ghana
Uruguay
South Korea
This 12 months’s event, which is able to happen in Qatar from Nov. 21 to Dec. 18, is the final to characteristic 32 worldwide groups. The 2026 event in North America will encompass 48. The World Cup is scheduled for the latter a part of the 12 months due to the new local weather in Qatar.
America’ Christian Pulisic (10) celebrates a purpose with Walker Zimmerman (3) through the crew’s FIFA World Cup qualifying soccer match towards Honduras Feb. 2, 2022, in St. Paul, Minn.
(AP Photograph/Andy Clayton-King)
The draw already has a handful of surprises. Italy, four-time World Cup champions, haven’t certified after shedding to North Macedonia in a qualifier. Russia was disqualified from competing due to President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, and Canada certified for the primary time in 36 years.
Qualifiers which can be previous Cup winners embrace Germany, Brazil, France, Spain, England, Argentina and Uruguay.
America has by no means received on the boys’s aspect. Its greatest end got here in 1930 when it completed third. The crew hasn’t positioned higher than eighth since.
The Related Press contributed to this report.