A special year lies ahead for Brazil. From all the team at Braziltheguide.com we wish you a very happy holiday season and a healthy, prosperous and memorable year to come.
Feliz Natal, um próspero Ano Novo e muitas felicidades em 2014.
The 32 teams to qualify to play in Brazil between 12 June and 13 July 2014 for the 2014 FIFA World Cup are from:
EUROPE: Belgium, Bosnia Herzegovina, Croatia, England, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Switzerland
SOUTH AMERICA: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Uruguay
NORTH & CENTRAL AMERICA: Costa Rica, Honduras, Mexico, United States
AFRICA: Algeria, Cameroon, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Nigeria
ASIA: Australia, Iran, Japan, South Korea
For the draw on 6 December 2013 the 32 teams will be split into four pots. Pot one will have the seven highest ranked teams in the world plus the host, Brazil. The other pots are based on regions with France, as the lowest-ranked European qualifier, in a separate pot (3) and drawn with a South American seed
The likely pots are:
Seeds (Pot 1): Brazil, Spain, Germany, Argentina, Colombia, Belgium, Switzerland, Uruguay.
Pot 2: Japan, Australia, Iran, South Korea, Costa Rica, United States, Mexico, Honduras.
Pot 3: France, Chile, Ecuador, Nigeria, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Algeria, Ghana.
Pot 4: Netherlands, Italy, England, Portugal, Greece, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, Russia.
By beating Burkina Faso 1 x 0 in the final of the Africa Cup of Nations on 10 February, Nigeria booked its passage to Brazil as the eighth and final team to play in the 2103 Confederations Cup.
Nigeria has been drawn in Group B alongside Spain, Uruguay and Tahiti.