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July 30, 2011
Saturday
 
 
Seychelles versus Kenya
Antoine Clarke (Neuilly-sur-Seine, France)  Globalization/economics • Sports

The first match fixture to be drawn for the 2014 soccer world cup. One of the manifestations of globalization that will go largely unnoticed for a couple of years.

UPDATE: With North Korea and Syria in the same qualifying group of four teams, it looked like we could have a different sort of "Group of Death" than usual, but FIFA chickened out and put Iran and China in other groups.

MORE: Guatemala and Belize. The former's government claims ownership of the latter. Football correspondent with war zone reporting experience required?

On a more pleasant note, the job I want is covering CONCACAF Group B: Trinidad & Tobago, Guyana, Barbados and the Bahamas. Well, someone has got to go there and report on the beaches, I mean football matches...

EVEN MORE: "In consideration of the delicate political situation between Russia and Georgia, FIFA has agreed to a UEFA request that these two teams not be drawn together." [From the news feed here]

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I remain awed by the composition of this group from the 1994 event. Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, North Korea, South Korea, and Japan. All in the same group.


Posted by Michael Jennings at July 30, 2011 08:07 PM

We will report them from the Beaches and from the waterfront bars, from the knocking shops and spliff emporiums, we will never knowingly see a sunset without seeing the sunrise... we shall never sleep!

We might see the odd game of football too.

Yep, that's my kind of journalism alright!


Posted by RAB at July 31, 2011 02:02 AM
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