Special pot ... hmmm, nope, I remember Acapulco, Humboldt, Maui, plus of course home-grown which rarely was special at all, but not Serbian.

Maby it will be good for holland in the end but i think they deserve to be there before spain!!!!

about US I dont think FiFa should consider politics so much if Iran doesn't show up for a match it is their on problem!!!

but the europian wxxxxrs from uefa are what they are. anyway it is unfair to US.

For all my friends from Canada I really think you can do more than watch Costa Rica in WCF...Better Luck next time Hopefully. Soccer can be really good In Canada. there are many good fields. Hockey and Soccer are very similar. But my cosine told me that even in the hockey there are many good players that come from the very cold part were the have snow all the year and nothing better to do than play hockey i.e. "the streets".

Well its official... Mexico becomes the first non euro/south american team to be seeded while not being the host.  I was woundering if FIFA would sneak in the economic factor clause to screw them out of it... but luckily they respected their own system.

Congratulations to Mexico...

What I still cannot understand is the relevance of a result 8 years ago.  The coaches and players change.

France probably had one of the best midfields of recent memory during the '98 WC (Zindane, Petit, DeChamps, and Djorkaef).  However, 3 of the 4 are retired. 

The US and Mexico should always qualify based on CONCACAF, but teams like Holland, Czech Republic, and even Spain have to fight tooth and nail to get accepted. 

Although Europe is much tougher, why should a team that had to go through a home and home series get a seed?   

You have to admit that futbol in Mexico is far more viewed and far more popular than here in the USA. Example, if the USA team plays on "x" day and the bears or bulls, cubs or sox play the same day, the newspapers give the USA team may be half of a page while the others get 4 to 5 pages each. TV the same, not enough coverage unless they play against Mexico and that is only because our hispanic tv stations are transmitting the game. Sure USA is growing in youth soccer, but as far as the National Team is concern they fall short. Just a personal opinion.

good one

Hilarious.

Hey guess what, the US, used to be an English Colony, 250 years ago.

Get with the times my friend. Let go, its over.

Why don't you give us the result for the last 7 games????

How about the last game?

???

haha

A bit misleading in that all this means is that Eriksson views the U.S. as the class of pot #4. There may well be teams in pot #2 who worry him more, and certainly there are in pot #3.

Still, it's a step up from '02, when every team was hoping to be placed in the U.S. pool.