What does everyone think about Europe's qualification stage. I think England have a very tricky group, with Denmark, Bosnia and Herzegovina and even possibly Hungary challenging for top spot. I think we should be able to get at least 2nd though, and hopefully qualify for the world cup.

Let's add the link here too:
http://rockingsoccer.com/nl/voetbal/tournament-565

Group 2 seems very strong with Spain, Italy and Turkey

Group 5 also has a lot of big countries with France, Portugal, Russia, Israel and Serbia

Group 8 should also be interesting with The Netherlands, Belgium and Germany (some nice real-life rivalries here) together with Ukraine and Slovakia as possibly dangerous outsiders. One has to feel sorry for Wales.

Looking at the teams in Englands group.. think England have to be favourites... Although Denmark do have a couple of great players.

Think it'll be tough, but England should qualify

What a group for Spain: Italy and Turkey. It will not be easy but let's hope we'll be able to qualify.

We' just lost a frienly match at home against Italy (they have a great defense -as usual- and were a bit lucky at the end of the first half)

how much nations of every continent will get a place in the first world championship?
is it like in real life or is it different?

I will show the qualification criteria soon. There will be direct qualifications and playoff places. The number of teams per cotinent will roughly depend on the number of active countries in a continent, it won't be exactly the same as in real life because there are more strong countries in asia here and less in south america and africa.

ah nice groups i like scotlands one a lot it gives us a good chance:)

As manager to be of Norway, I am quite satisfied with the pairings.

Poland is by far the strongest at pool 1, but Finland and Austria are doable. Both Liechtenstein and Northern Ireland will have hard times.

I agree with Corniel with one difference.

I think Norway is doable with Austria ;)

I am sure every team will loose points in away games so it will be tight.

Hoping to be in top 2

/Roope

Yes, unfortunately England, Denmark and Bosnia looks stronger than our team, so it will be very hard to finish in 3rd place either.
I think only the best will qualify directly from each group.

One more thing about group 1 in Europe.

It is really nice to see that only N-Ireland is without a human Manager.

/Roope

Sadly Turkey does not have a manager. Our old manager missed to become a candidate.

For Macedonia, if I manage to win 2-3 games, I will be very happy.

Me too I think my group 2 will be not easy for Italy.
We won the last game against Spain, but I'm not sure we could repeat it again. Tiety is the manager of Ireland, so they will be two other difficult matches. Turkey is a bot team, but has a lot of good players.
I hope Vincent will decide to let 4 of us have a direct qualification... ;o)))

Good idea, Fresty ;)

For sure, Spain will try to do its best not to repeat the disastrous 1-3 against Italy next time. We'll improve, but you will do it too.

First match: away match against Ireland (and Tiety as manager). Fingers crossed!

I think that injuries could have huge impact in qualifications. I, as a manager of Bosnia and Herzegovina, see Denmark at the top of our group, after that Bosnia and Herzegovina and England will fight for second. But like I said, if some team get in trouble with injuries it will be very hard for them to qualify.