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Ghana have been placed in Pot 3 for Friday's final draw for the 2010 FIFA World Cup finals in South Africa.Fifa's Organising Committee Wednesday approved the procedure for Friday's draw which will be held in Cape Town, South Africa.The seeding was based on the October 2009 FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking.Ghana, ranked 38th during the month of October 2009 are in Pot 3 with all the four other African qualifiers and three South American candidates.Brazil, Spain, the Netherlands, Italy, Germany, Argentina and England are therefore the seven squads that join hosts South Africa as seeded teams for the Final Draw.• Pot 2 will be composed of teams from Asia (Australia, Japan, Korea DPR, Korea Republic), North, Central America and the Caribbean (Honduras, Mexico, USA) and Oceania (New Zealand)• Pot 3 will include teams from Africa (Algeria, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Nigeria) and South America (Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay)• Pot 4 will have the remaining European teams (Denmark, France, Greece, Portugal, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Switzerland)The committee also approved the procedure for the final draw:• hosts South Africa will be automatically positioned as A1; the other seeded teams will be drawn into the other groups B-H, but will always be in position “1” of their group• groups will be drawn from A to H and the positions in the group will be drawn for Pots 2 to 4• geographical criteria will also be respected, meaning that no two teams from the same confederation will be drawn in the same group (except European teams, where a maximum of two will be in a group). For example, South Africa cannot play the African teams from Pot 3 and Argentina and Brazil cannot be drawn against the three remaining South American teams.Seedings:Pot 1 - South Africa, Argentina, Brazil, England, Germany, Holland, Italy, Spain.Pot 2 - Australia, Japan, North Korea, South Korea, Honduras, Mexico, USA, New ZealandPot 3 - Algeria, Cameroon, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Chile, Paraguay, UruguayPot 4 - Denmark, France, Greece, Portugal, Serbia, Slovenia, Slovakia, SwitzerlandSource: Ghanafa.org
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