Everything You Need to Know About 2014 World Cup Draw
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The 2014 FIFA World Cup doesn’t start until June but on Friday we’ll find out which teams will play against each other. FIFA officials will convene in Brazil and draw a tournament schedule for the 32-teams that qualified for the tournament.
Before the draw teams are divided by rank and region into four pots, literally, in the form of lottery balls. The balls will be plucked in a FIFA ceremony in front of representatives from all the 32 participating nations at the Costa do Sauipe resort, north of the city of Salvador.
The draw is a bafflingly complicated (and controversial) tradition but “Open Source” host Leon Krauze explains everything you need know about the draw, including what all this talk about the “group of death” means.