32 Teams Hoping For Favorable Matchups, Locations

COSTA DO SAUIPE, Brazil (AP)-- The eyes of football concentrated nervously Friday on the draw toestablish where, when and, most essential, which the 32 teams will dip into the 2014 World Cup inBrazil.The wedding is being telecasted live to even more compared to 190 nations from the Atlanticbeach hotel of Costa do Sauipe, with a protection lockdown for the 1,300 guests and also 2,000reporters.The draw will separate the 32 groups right into eight

groups-- classified A to H-- of four groups each. The principle of drawing names from hats hasactually been made use of by the governing physical body FIFA for years and also wased initiallytelevised in 1966. The 90-minute show will be component showbiz, with musical efficiencies, andalso part Globe Cup

practicality. The draw itself will certainly take about 35 minutes.The talk of anticipation touched alsoBrazil's President Dilma Rousseff. She sent tweets to Neymar, asking the superstar of Brazil

's national group if he wished weak or solid challengers from the start of the monthlong tournamentfollowing June. He replied that there are no weak groups at soccer's exhibit competition.The area isharder than at the 2010 Globe Cup in South Africa. Of the top 25 groups in FIFA's positions, all yettwo (Ukraine and Denmark)certified for Brazil.

All 8 previous globe champions will certainly take part, with five-time victor Brazil hopeless to raisethe trophy in the house for the very first time.With the world title at concern and as a result offootball's abundant and deep sporting, historic and political rivalries, the transparent bowls holdingthe groups' names were bound to produce alluring matchups.STAY TUNED FOR LIVE UPDATES

ON DRAW Share+Belgium Algeria Russia Korea Republic Share+Germany Portugal Ghana U.S.AShare+Argentina Bosnia-Herzegovina Iran Nigeria Share+Switzerland Ecuador France HondurasShare+Uruguay Costa Rica England Italy Share+

Colombia Greece C te d'Ivoire Japan Share+Spain

Netherlands

Chile Australia Share+Brazil

Croatia Mexico Cameroon Share +

Russia rounds out Team H with

Belgium

, Algeria and also

South Korea

. Share+And also the united state team consists of Germany

, Ghana and Portugal.

Share+Obtains Argentina in their opening suit of Team F.

Share+They'll be the dark horse in

Group

E. Share

+The Europeans will certainly

take on in Team

D. Share +

And U.S. fans obtain a bit much more cynical. Share+

Ends up with Spain to start.

Share+That's the opening suit of the World

Cup. Share+The U.S. will certainly face Ghana in their very first match.

Will Brazil be

coupled in a tough opening group that could sink

its campaign

for a sixth Globe Cup victory, souring the event setting you back the country almost$11billion?Could defending champion Spain be drawn

to play its opening game against the Netherlands? That repeat of

the grumpy 2010 last would certainly cause sharp consumption of breath.Because of their extreme

specific duel to be considered the world'sfinest soccer player, there also will bewaves of exhilaration if the Argentinateam of

four-time globe player of the year LionelMessi is attracted against CristianoRonaldo's Portugal.Depending on exactlyhow they are drawn, some teams willcertainly take a trip considerably furthercompared to others worldwide's fifth-largest nation, which is greater than2,500 miles from pointer to toe as well asacross. Some will have to play in the heatas well as humidity of the Amazon basin,with Manaus in the heart of the jungle

taken into consideration among the most physically exhausting places for gamers, specifically thosefrom more mild climates. None of the previous seven Globe Cups composed the Americas, startingwith the first edition in Uruguay in 1930, was succeeded by a European team.Bosnia-Herzegovinawill obtain its first preference of the tension of a Globe Cup draw, having qualified as anindependent

country two years after its war that killed greater than 100,000 people. Various other nations areexperts: 7 have actually gotten each of the last 7 World Cups-- Argentina, Brazil, Germany, Italy,South Korea, Spain as well as the United States.The ceremony will certainly additionally display thehost nation. To show that it has even more to supply than sandy beaches, samba and also soccer,Brazil has actually constructed and also renovated 12 stadiums as well as put billions much moreinto various other public works.Such expense in a country with millions residing in third-worldpoverty has sparked strenuous dispute, especially with Olympic host Rio de Janeiro additionallyinvesting

heavily to plan for the summer games of 2016. Militants who poured into Brazil's streets during theConfederations Cup warmup event in June provided World Cup spending amongst their complaints.