Honduras / Mexico / Ghana / Ivory Coast / Algeria / Nigeria / Uruguay / Colombia / Chile / Ecuador / Belgium / Germany / Switzerland / Portugal / Greece / England / Spain / Bosnia / Russia / Cameroon / France / Sweden / Croatia
The teams in green above are the ones I failed to predict to make it through, but overall I am happy that got the majority right.
Sad to see that New Zealand could not turn-around the 5-1 drubbing they took at the hands of the Mexicans, in the 2nd leg of their play-off, but they gave it a good try and will now have to start looking forward to the World Cup Qualification for Russia in 2018.
Now we have to wait until Friday 6th December when the World Cup Final Draw will take place in Costa do Sauipe in the Brazilian state of Bahia. This is when we, and the rest of the the world, will find out who will be playing who, in the Group Stages of the tournement.
After the Final Draw, the 3rd Ticketing Sales Phase starts on the 8th December, which will be another lottery style draw for tickets. So far, Yates & I have only managed to get 3 sets of tickets in the 1st Sales Phase, and none at all in the 2nd Phase, so we are hoping to pick up the remaining 5 sets of tickets that we are after in this next phase.
So far we have tickets to the following :
- Match 7 - 14th June - D1 v D2 - Estadio Castelao, Fortaleza
- Match 29 - 21st June - G1 v G3 - Estadio Castelao, Fortaleza
- Match 38 - 23rd June - C2 v C3 - Estadio Castelao, Fortaleza
After the 6th December I will be able to tell you which teams we will be watching with the above tickets, and the game we are trying to get tickets for.
Only 203 days until the World Cup in Brazil gets underway. The good news is that it is only 180 days until Fiona & I start the first leg of trip, heading fro Santiago, Chile....
Can't bloody wait....
