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NEW RULE: WORLD CUP TOP SEEDS APART UNTIL SEMI-FINALS
FIFA's new World Cup draw ensures top seeds Spain, Argentina, France, and England can't meet until the semi-finals.
For the first time, the top four seeded countries at next year's World Cup can't face each other until the semi-finals.
FIFA said that Spain (1st) and Argentina (2nd) will be paired and put in groups on opposite sides of the draw.
France (3rd) and England (4th) are paired too. This means England can't play Spain or Argentina until the semi-finals and France until the final, but only if all four win their groups.
When teams are paired, they go into opposite halves of the bracket and can only meet in the final.
Wimbledon does this, and so does the new Champions League format, keeping paired seeds apart.
FIFA wants to make sure the top countries don't meet too early, hoping for bigger matches later in the tournament.
They used the same ranking for the Club World Cup this summer.
France beat England 2-1 in the 2022 World Cup quarter-finals, and Spain beat England in the Euro 2024 final.
The four pots for the final draw on Friday, December 5, are set.
First-timers Uzbekistan are in pot three, and Jordan, Cape Verde, and Curacao are in pot four.
How does the draw work?
The 12 World Cup groups will each have one team from each pot.
FIFA will draw teams from pot one first.
Co-hosts Mexico (A1), Canada (B1), and the United States (D1) get special treatment: colored balls with their flags. Their group spots are set so they play all games at home.
As teams are drawn, they go into the next open group alphabetically.
The draw computer will put Spain, Argentina, France, and England in the correct bracket sections.
Then pots two, three, and four are drawn.
Unlike before, to speed things up, countries won't be drawn into group positions.
Seeded countries go into position one. A random grid will decide how other countries fit into the group to make the schedule.
No group can have more than one country from the same region. When Colombia is drawn from pot two, they can't go into a group with Argentina or Brazil.
This is true for all pots, except that four groups will have two European teams, since there are 16 European qualifiers for 12 groups.
The inter-region play-offs have few group options. Pathway 1 (New Caledonia, Jamaica, DR Congo) can't be in a group with Concacaf or African teams.
Pathway 2 (Bolivia, Suriname, Iraq) must avoid South America, CONCACAF, and Asia.
Game dates and order will be known after the draw, but venues and times won't be set until Saturday, December 6.
MISSED FUNERAL: CRISTIANO RONALDO SENDS TOUCHING GIFT TO DIOGO JOTA FAMILY
Cristiano Ronaldo honours his late teammate Diogo Jota with a custom, expensive watch for his family after Portugal's Nations League win.
Cristiano Ronaldo made a sweet gesture to Diogo Jota's family. He gave them a watch to remember Portugal's Nations League win. Jota was a Liverpool player who passed away.
Ronaldo, the Portugal captain, had custom watches made for all his teammates. One watch had Jota's name and number on it, and Ronaldo made sure Jota's family got it.
Jota was key to Portugal's European win. In the Nations League final against Spain, Portugal came back twice. Jota came off the bench, and Nuno Mendes and Ronaldo scored to force a penalty shootout. Portugal won, scoring all five penalties.
Ronaldo asked his friend Jacob Arabo to make the watches. He wanted them ready before Portugal's World Cup qualifying game against Armenia. SIC, a Portuguese news source, reported this kind act.
The watches' exact price isn't known, but they're thought to cost hundreds of thousands of euros. Jacob & Co., a brand, announced the Epic X UEFA Nations League 2025 Champions edition for the team. They made 35 watches with a skeleton dial, custom design, and the Portuguese crest.
The company said the watch is as good as the champions themselves.
Ronaldo was criticised for not going to Jota's funeral after Jota and his brother passed away in a car crash.
Some Portugal players, like Ruben Neves and Bruno Fernandes, did attend.
Ronaldo explained his absence in a recent interview with Piers Morgan. He said, People judge me a lot, but I don't care. If you're innocent, you don't need to stress.
But here's something I don't do: I haven't been to a cemetery since my dad died.
If you know me, you know I attract attention. Wherever I go, it becomes a big event. I don't go out because the attention shifts to me. I don't want that.
I don't like doing interviews or talking about football at sensitive moments. It turns life into a circus. I'm not part of that. If you want to be, go ahead, but I'll be on the other side.
People can keep criticising. I felt good about my choice.
OFFICIAL LAUNCH: COACHING CLINIC OPENS CAF SCHOOLS FOOTBALL QUALIFIERS IN GAMBIA NOW
The CAF African Schools Football Champions WAFU A Qualifiers kick off in The Gambia with a Community Coaching Clinic. The event aims to train local coaches & teachers, developing football at the grassroots level.
The CAF African Schools Football Champions (ASFC) WAFU A Qualifiers started in The Gambia on Monday, November 24, with a Community Coaching Clinic at the GFF Technical Training Centre in Yundum.
This clinic, along with the CAF D-License workshop, shows a new focus on improving local football across the region.
As the fourth edition of the Zonal Qualifiers for Africa’s biggest school football competition begins, the coaching clinic gathers school coaches to improve their skills under CAF’s training system.
The clinic is one of several workshops happening alongside the main competition, which starts on Thursday, November 27, at the Gambinos Stars Africa Complex and QCity.
Veronic Aisha Malack, the Women’s Football Development Manager at WAFU-A, praised CAF’s ongoing support for local development, saying that the future success of African football depends on well-prepared coaches at the local level.
“The community coaching clinic and the CAF D-License program are key parts of the CAF African Schools Football Championship, which is funded by the Motsepe Foundation and is being held here in The Gambia for the fourth time,” said Malack, a former Gambian international.
“One of our main goals is to train local coaches, especially in schools, because this is the CAF African Schools Football Championship, and we are working with both boys and girls. It’s important to train PE teachers so they can include coaching in their plans, grow a passion for football, and eventually become A-License coaches.
“We also want to show the community that football is for everyone and is just as important as anything else. As a zonal union working with CAF, we want to increase the number of qualified coaches and bring football to thousands of young people,” Malack added.
The Technical Director of the Gambia Football Federation, Sang John Ndong, is in charge of the coaching clinic and is happy that the competition is in The Gambia.
“This is great for everyone. There have been plans to do a CAF D-License course for teachers, and this offer from WAFU-A came at the perfect time,” said Ndong, a former Scorpions goalkeeper and coach.
“The participants have a lot of potential, and we need to support them—not just as coaches but as instructors as well. They are already teachers, and becoming an instructor is not a big step. If we want to reach young players, we have to work through the schools and train teachers who will recruit and train kids in their schools.”
The CAF African Schools Football Championship program is a new effort to positively impact students, coaches, teachers, and schools.
Besides coaching, the program includes the Young Reporter Program, Young Referees Program, Young Medical Officers Program, and CAF Safeguarding workshops, providing a full platform for youth growth in West African football.
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