United States’ Christian Pulisic carries the ball for a nook kick throughout a qualifying soccer match towards Costa Rica for the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 in San Jose, Costa Rica, Wednesday, March 30, 2022. Moises Castillo, Related Press
The United States males’s soccer nationwide crew misplaced Wednesday evening to Costa Rica, 2-0. However the outcome didn’t matter — the USMNT certified for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
What occurred: The United States all however wrapped up qualifying for the World Cup with a 5-1 win over Panama on Sunday. Solely an absolute 6-0 drubbing by Costa Rica on Wednesday would have led to the US dropping a assured spot within the World Cup.
- Nevertheless, the U.S. misplaced 2-0 to Costa Rica, sending the Individuals straight via to the World Cup.
What’s subsequent:
all the certified World Cup groups
How the draw works: All of the certified groups shall be positioned into varied pots primarily based on their FIFA rankings, per MLS Soccer.
- There shall be 4 pots.
- The seven finest nationwide groups shall be within the first pot.
- Groups ranked No. 8 to No. 15 shall be in pot two.
- The third pot will include the groups that rank 16 to 23.
- Pot 4 shall be a bit completely different. It would embody the ultimate 24 to twenty-eight certified groups, in addition to three placeholders for the winners of the intercontinental play-offs (the place a crew from our area, CONCACAF, performs New Zealand and the remaining European play-off winner), which have but to occur.
- Groups shall be chosen out of the pots till there are eight teams of 4 groups.
Anticipated pots: Per NBC Sports activities, right here’s a breakdown of the anticipated pots.
- Pot 1: Qatar (host), Belgium, Brazil, France, Argentina, England, Spain, Portugal
- Pot 2: Mexico, Netherlands, Denmark, Germany, Uruguay, Switzerland, USA, Croatia
- Pot 3: Senegal, Iran, Japan, Morocco, Serbia, Poland, South Korea, Tunisia
- Pot 4: Cameroon, Canada, Ecuador, Saudi Arabia, Ghana + 2 intercontinental playoff winners, winner of Wales vs Scotland/Ukraine
watch: You possibly can watch the draw stay on Friday, April 1.
- Time: It would start at 10 a.m. MT.
- The place: Peacock streaming service, Telemundo and Universo.
- Stream: You possibly can watch on FIFA.com in addition to FIFA’s Twitter, Fb and Instagram pages.
The 2022 World Cup will run from Nov. 21 to Dec. 18 later this 12 months.