The Rondo, World Cup draw preview edition: Who needs the friendliest group, who can make noise, and did FIFA get seeding right?
Goal | 04.12.2025 20:43
And so it gets real. The World Cup draw feels like an inflection point in every cycle. From the end of the previous tournament - when Lionel Messi lifted the trophy in Qatar - everything has basically been informed guesswork. We knew that some teams would be here as hosts. We could make some solid guesses as to who would join them. And even after qualifying last month yielded (most of) the rest of the field, no one substantively knows very much until the draw.
