ASIA World Cup Qualifying FINAL ROUND

[shahname]

Here is the FIFA seeding for WCQ2018 final round:

سیدبندی قطعی تیم های آسیایی از نظر فیفا / ایران و استرالیا در سید یک
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چهارشنبه ۱۱ فروردین ۱۳۹۵ - ۱۴:۰۰
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بر طبق سیدبندی تیم های آسیایی در رده بندی فیفا دو تیم ایران و استرالیا در سید یک انتخابی جام جهانی قرار خواهند گرفت و به این ترتیب این دو تیم در انتخابی روسیه با هم دیدار نخواهند کرد.

به گزارش ایسنا، بعد از مشخص شدن 12 تیم حاضر در مرحله بعد انتخابی جام جهانی، اکنون همه نگاه ها به قرعه کشی مرحله نهایی این رقابت ها خواهد بود جایی که تیم های آسیایی با حریفانشان در راه جام جهانی روسیه آشنا خواهند شد. قرعه کشی انتخابی جام جهانی بر مبنای سیدبندی امتیازی است که تیم ها در انتخابی جام جهانی توانستند جمع کنند.

بر مبنای قوانین رده بندی فیفا که هر دیدار در یک تورنمت خاص امتیاز خاصی برای هر تیم دارد، سید بندی تیم های قاره کهن به ترتیبی خواهد بود که ایران استرالیا در سید یک قرار خواهند گرفت و به این ترتیب در انتخابی جام جهانی برابر هم به میدان نمی روند.

همچنین کره جنوبی و ژاپن نیز در سید دو قرار خواهند گرفت.

سید یک: ایران (627 امتیاز) – استرالیا (601 امتیاز)

سید 2: کره جنوبی (579 امتیاز) - ژاپن (577 امتیاز)

سید 3: عربستان (559 امتیاز) – ازبکستان (549 امتیاز)

سید 4: امارات (521 امتیاز) – چین (423 امتیاز)

سید 5: قطر (416 امتیاز) – عراق (333 امتیاز)

سید 6: سوریه (316 امتیاز) – تایلند (297 امتیاز)

دو تیم اول هر گروه به طور مستقیم به جام جهانی راه خواهند یافت و تیم سوم گروه ها نیز برابر هم به مدیان می روند و برنده این دیدار به مصاف تیم چهارم کونکاکاف خواهد رفت که به نظر می رسد یکی از تیم های گواتمالا، کاستاریکا، هندوراس یا جامائیکا باشد.

انتهای پیام


Pot 1: Iran & Australia
Pot 2: Japan & S.Korea
Pot 3: Uzbekistan & S. Arabia
Pot 4: China & UAE
Pot 5: Iraq & Qatar
Pot 6: Syria & Thailand

I hope we end up with the teams that I have mentioned below Iran.

[elnino99]

I don't think I've ever wanted us to make a world cup more badly.

Russia is my favourite country in the world, had an absolute blast there last year, and currently intensely learning Russian, and I'm 100% going there in 2018 for a full month regardless of TM qualifying. But it'll be amazing if we do.

I went and saw some of the stadium projects and my god, this will be THE MOST GLORIOUS world cup ever.

[04041374]

CQ will be in Malaysia to attend the draw ceremony

http://www.varzesh3.com/news/1313652...B4%D9%88%D8%AF

[Bessos]

I don't care who comes in our group (they are all scared of us anyway), except...

I just don't want Qatar. I want IRAQ over Qatar at all costs.

Aside from that, I also agree about ''the less arabs in our group the better''.

[saeed_noro]

I want all arab teams and Japan.

Japan is more east compared to Korea, and stronger hopefully/harder to play for the arab teams.

When Japan team plays at home, all other teams in the group are west asia, so we always play later (!) and know the result between Japan and arab team 3-5 hours before kick-off in west asia.

plus: japan have to travel so often to west sasian countried, for their players this means more jet lag.....while iran only one time have to fly that way to japan...

so i want:


Iran, Japan, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Iraq, Syria

in case we get uzbekistan instead of saudi arabia, that is okay too for me. i rate iraq and syria less strong compared to thailand and qatar, and also UAE not as problematic games compared to china...

[persianfire]

I want all arab teams and Japan.

Japan is more east compared to Korea, and stronger hopefully/harder to play for the arab teams.

When Japan team plays at home, all other teams in the group are west asia, so we always play later (!) and know the result between Japan and arab team 3-5 hours before kick-off in west asia.

plus: japan have to travel so often to west sasian countried, for their players this means more jet lag.....while iran only one time have to fly that way to japan...

so i want:


Iran, Japan, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Iraq, Syria

in case we get uzbekistan instead of saudi arabia, that is okay too for me. i rate iraq and syria less strong compared to thailand and qatar, and also UAE not as problematic games compared to china...

Most of their starters play in Europe.

[Chael McGregor]

in terms of the matchups, ideal group for Uzbekistan would be: Iran, Japan, Uzbekistan, China, Iraq, Thailand.

then again, it doesn't matter anyway as long as we have an incompetent "coach"

[ehsan singapore]

CQ will be in Malaysia to attend the draw ceremony

http://www.varzesh3.com/news/1313652...B4%D9%88%D8%AF

is a good thing, iran main power is its head coach, he will be the most well know coach there, and he can size up teams there

[Nokhodi]

So AFC, the wonderful democratic, clean organization that it is, just rehired a guy they had fired for destroying documents. MashAllah AFC.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-...b_9573166.html

The Asian Football Confederation (AFC), despite multiple legal inquiries into global soccer governance and a massive corruption scandal, has rehired as a consultant its former general secretary, Dato’ Alex Soosay, less than a year after his departure as a result of this blog’s disclosure of Mr. Soosay’s attempt to undermine an independent audit by requesting tampering with or destruction of documents.’

Mr. Soosay’s hiring, barely a month after AFC President Sheikh Salman Bin Ibrahim Al-Khalifa was defeated in elections for the head of troubled world soccer body FIFA, suggests that many regional and global soccer executives have yet to absorb the full impact of the corruption scandals and care little about appearances. Mr. Salman’s own record, particularly with regard to human rights, cast a shadow over his FIFA candidacy.

The AFC as a body has so far not been named in legal investigations by Swiss and US authorities that have already led to multiple indictments but is indirectly involved given that its former president, Mohammed Bin Hammam, is at the centre of the Swiss investigation and believed to be an unidentified co-conspirator in US indictments. It was documents related to an independent audit into Mr. Bin Hammam’s financial management of the AFC that Mr. Soosay allegedly sought to have altered or destroyed.

“Asian football is benefiting tremendously from Dato’ Alex Soosay’s unrivalled expertise and experience of the world game in his role as a consultant to the Asian Football Confederation (AFC).
He has the ability to contribute significantly on specific projects in which he has detailed knowledge such as the extension of the AFC building and the AFC Asian Cup. Dato’ Alex has the full support of the AFC President, General Secretary and management in this role which will assist the future development of the AFC as it strives to become the world’s leading football confederation,” the AFC said in a statement.

Mr. Soosay officially resigned in June 2015, two months after this blog disclosed a statement by then AFC Financial Director Bryan Kuan Wee Hoong that was video-taped and taken down in writing by FIFA security officer Michael John Pride. In the statement, Mr. Kuan asserted that Mr. Soosay had asked him to tamper with or hide documents related to enquiries by PricewaterhouseCooper (PwC) and FIFA into management of the group by Mr. Hammam.

The audit served as the basis for FIFA’s banning for life from all professional soccer-related activity of Mr. Bin Hammam, who also was a member of the world body’s executive committee. The AFC announced that it was investigating the matter which it described as FIFA rather than AFC-related following the disclosure in this blog but never reported the outcome of its inquiry. The AFC’s statement last June on Mr. Soosay’s departure made no mention of the allegations or the group’s investigation.

Mr. Salman has buried the audit that recommended that the AFC seek legal advice related to possible civil or criminal charges against Mr. Bin Hammam and to the possibility of cancelling or renegotiating the group’s $1 billion master rights agreement with Singapore-based World Sport Group (WSG) which was negotiated by the disgraced AFC official. WSG has since been renamed as part of Lagardere Sports and Entertainment.

Mr. Soosay has repeatedly denied the allegation that he had sought to have documents related to the PwC audit altered or destroyed.

Mr. Kuan asserted in his statements that Mr. Soosay, concerned that he could be implicated in the Bin Hammam investigations, had asked Mr. Kuan whether he believed that the AFC general secretary could be “blamed or has committed crimes or violated any laws based on the information that could be contained in the audit.” Mr. Kuan quoted Mr. Soosay as saying “protect me” and asking, “Can you tamper or hide any documents related to me?”

In his statements, Mr. Kuan said Mr. Soosay had not identified specific documents but that he had concluded from the conversation that the AFC general secretary was referring to documents that he had signed, particularly related to cash advances to Mr. Bin Hammam, a key element in the PwC’s audit.

In response to Mr. Kuan’s refusal to act on the request, Mr. Soosay said, according to Mr. Kuan: “I should have tampered or got rid of the documents before PwC conducted this audit.”

Mr. Kuan suggested in the video that it was not the first time that Mr. Soosay had made the request. “When it was confirmed PwC was going to do the investigation, I had a separate conversation with him (Soosay) and he told me clearly that anything related to him, don’t give to them (PwC),” Mr. Kuan said.

Mr. Kuan quoted then AFC Director Member Associations Relations and Development James Johnson as telling him that Mr. Soosay had made a similar request to Mr. Johnson. Mr. Johnson has since left the Asian group to join FIFA. Mr. Johnson, who was at the time reportedly supervising the investigations, was not available for comment.

In his written declaration, Mr. Kuan said that “this statement made accurately by me sets out the evidence that I would be prepared, if necessary, to provide to a football governing body and court as a witness.”

Asked in the video why Mr. Soosay would want the documents tampered with or hidden, Mr. Kuan said: “I’m not sure ... possibly because he is afraid he may be accountable for signing the payment instruction and that he didn’t question it.”

The PwC audit, which held out the possibility that Mr. Bin Hammam’s management of the AFC could have involved bribery, money laundering and busting of international sanctions, warned that “our transaction review revealed that items sampled were, in most cases, authorised by the General Secretary (Soosay) or Deputy General Secretary and the Director of Finance. As signatories these parties hold accountability for the authorisation of these transactions. We also note the Internal Audit and Finance Committees were aware of this practice.”

Mr. Soosay’s rehiring suggests that Mr. Salman despite soccer governance’s massive corruption scandal has no intention of getting to the bottom of what may or may not have happened within the AFC and no apparent desire to clean house and ensure that the group adopts the transparency and accountability measures and structures that could bolster its ambition to become the world’s leading football confederation.

[Keano]

Pot 1: Iran & Australia
Pot 2: Japan & S.Korea
Pot 3: Uzbekistan & S. Arabia
Pot 4: China & UAE
Pot 5: Iraq & Qatar
Pot 6: Syria & Thailand

I hope we end up with the teams that I have mentioned below Iran.

I am totally with you on this. This would be the best case scenario for us IMHO.

[Bessos]

in terms of the matchups, ideal group for Uzbekistan would be: Iran, Japan, Uzbekistan, China, Iraq, Thailand.

then again, it doesn't matter anyway as long as we have an incompetent "coach"

So you are picking us over Australia? I feel offended.

[Chael McGregor]

So you are picking us over Australia? I feel offended.

u got nothing to worry about if there's no coaching change for Uzbekistan unfortunately. but still, we match up better with Iran than Australia. No hope for the World Cup with current coach. only if we had some quality foreign coach like Carlos Queiroz........

[perspolis#1]

Pros and Cons are important here.

Analyzing Pot 2. Japan and South Korea cant be that different in difficulty. Japan may have better team chemistry/legionaires but we are capable of taking a 2-6 points from Japan. South Korea will be sick of us and be looking to get revenge. Although their team has been bought out by Qatar with 5 of their starting legionnaires being in Qatar/Saudi now. Their captain is also a 35 yr old CB who we could expose on pace.

Pot 3. Uzbekistan is better. But we get a home game. Saudi is worse but mess with our heads and no home game. 50/50 on this one.

Pot 4. We know little about China. Inconsistent judging from their group performance. UAE has very good team chemistry and spoiled our qualifying in 2010. We need to play much like we did in Asian Cup or we use Ezzatollahi to keep Omar off the ball.

Pot 5. Iraq. No one wants Qatar. They hate us. We hate them. Lets go our separate ways. Without Qatar our lives will be much easier. Iraq's team had trouble with Azmoun in the first half of AC. They also had trouble vs. Thailands pace.

Pot 6. Hard to choose. Thailand will be an easier win in Tehran. Harder game away. They spoiled our 2002 chances. Syria on the other hand cant play at home. They will(depending on the psyche of the players) blame us for Syria's situation and play their hearts out. They are also a bigger team which would diminish our set piece advantage.

I'd say most importantly avoid Qatar, if not then avoid Saudi, if not then avoid UAE.

[KC McElroy]

Pros and Cons are important here.

Analyzing Pot 2. Japan and South Korea cant be that different in difficulty. Japan may have better team chemistry/legionaires but we are capable of taking a 2-6 points from Japan. South Korea will be sick of us and be looking to get revenge. Although their team has been bought out by Qatar with 5 of their starting legionnaires being in Qatar/Saudi now. Their captain is also a 35 yr old CB who we could expose on pace.

Pot 3. Uzbekistan is better. But we get a home game. Saudi is worse but mess with our heads and no home game. 50/50 on this one.

Pot 4. We know little about China. Inconsistent judging from their group performance. UAE has very good team chemistry and spoiled our qualifying in 2010. We need to play much like we did in Asian Cup or we use Ezzatollahi to keep Omar off the ball.

Pot 5. Iraq. No one wants Qatar. They hate us. We hate them. Lets go our separate ways. Without Qatar our lives will be much easier. Iraq's team had trouble with Azmoun in the first half of AC. They also had trouble vs. Thailands pace.

Pot 6. Hard to choose. Thailand will be an easier win in Tehran. Harder game away. They spoiled our 2002 chances. Syria on the other hand cant play at home. They will(depending on the psyche of the players) blame us for Syria's situation and play their hearts out. They are also a bigger team which would diminish our set piece advantage.

I'd say most importantly avoid Qatar, if not then avoid Saudi, if not then avoid UAE.

I'd love to get qatar in our group so we can contribute to eliminating them with all of their African and South American players.

[GolfePersique]

The less Arabs, the less headache and dirty games.

The only team I really want to avoid is the Saudi, not because of fearing them, but the Iranian federation's incompetence which would result in loosing to host a home match.

No need to mention the corrupt Arab Football Confederation input.