All 32 World Cup teams profiled

Spain celebrates its 2010 World Cup victory. (AP)

GROUP A
Brazil | Croatia | Mexico | Cameroon

GROUP B
Spain | The Netherlands | Chile | Australia

GROUP C
Colombia | Greece | Ivory Coast | Japan

GROUP D

Uruguay | Costa Rica | England | Italy

GROUP E
Switzerland | Ecuador | France | Honduras

GROUP F

Argentina | Bosnia and Herzegovina | Iran | Nigeria

GROUP G

Germany | Portugal | Ghana | United States

GROUP H

Belgium | Algeria | Russia | South Korea

Fantasy: Sportsnet’s Group of Death picks

With the official draw for the 2014 FIFA World Cup set to take place on Friday, Sportsnet’s soccer staff couldn’t help but let their imaginations run wild in dreaming up their ultimate Groups of Death.

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15 players to watch at 2014 World Cup

With the FIFA World Cup draw set for Friday, here’s a look at 15 of the top players to watch at next summer’s tournament in Brazil.

The Group of Death’s not-so gloomy history

By rights, the World Cup draw should be about ten minutes of FIFA officials pulling names out of a hat. It isn’t that. It’s an over-blown, over-produced hour and a half of utter nonsense, featuring puffed-up officials, random celebrities, unnecessary glitz and a wildly inflated sense of self-importance. And we all watch it because at the core of it all there’s something soccer fans really are keen to see. So it’s FIFA, basically. Damn them.

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The Group of Death’s not-so gloomy history

If you didn’t know it was a soccer phrase, you’d be forgiven for thinking it was used to describe a group of political dissidents or rebel guerrillas sent to rot in some unholy and treacherous den by corrupt Latin dictators.

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