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1998 UEFA Cup semi-finalists Spartak Moscow and comparative minoows Sturm Graz) and Group D (Spanish champions Barcelona, former Champions Cup winners Bayern Munich and Manchester United as well as relative minnows Brøndby) could well be considered groups of death. In the event, those groups were the two whose second-placed teams would go on to have the best records among second-placed teams, and the top two teams of Group D, Bayern Munich and Manchester United, would go on to contest the final.

171:. As with the 1970 group, this was the only one with all four teams from Europe and South America. The label was widely repeated by the English-language media. By the 1986 tournament rules, two or three of the four teams in each group would progress to the knockout phase; in the event, Scotland was the only team not to qualify from the prototypical "group of death". Uruguay were criticised for persistent foul play in the decisive match with 320:, each preliminary group has four teams, two of which qualify for the knockout phase. Some sources imply all four teams must be in contention for a "group of death"; others allow for three teams fighting for two places, with one underdog making up the numbers. In the latter case, the term gains an additional facet from the expected "death" of the weak team: the Glasgow 734: – was considered the group of death. Despite France, Germany, and Portugal all progressing, Group F was the only group not to contain any teams in the quarterfinals, with Portugal losing 1–0 to Belgium, France losing to Switzerland on penalties after a 3–3 draw, and Germany losing 2–0 to England. In the 535:

disgrace, but that the group turns out not to be so very troublesome after all.". David Lacey said, "Draws may nominate a group of death but results decide its real mortality rating. France and Argentina found this out in Japan." Lacey also said, "There are groups of death and groups of death wishes. In Euro 2000

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exact definition of the term "group of death". Sometimes, the term simply signifies a group with only the strongest competitors, all of which are potential winners of the tournament, implying there is always precisely one such group; other definitions allow for multiple groups of death or for none at all.

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Reyna ... has maintained all along that the Americans were drawn into this year's Group of Death at the World Cup, even though Argentina and the Netherlands were drawn together in a different group. And the tangled results in the United States' group seem only to prove his point. ... The group is the

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The toughest group in the World Cup qualifying competition is the Group of Death. For the 1998 qualifiers, group one takes the title with ease. Bosnia, Croatia and Slovenia were drawn in group one. . . . There was, mercifully, no Serb-dominated rump Yugoslavia drawn in the same group. But there was,

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In the 1998–99 UEFA Champions League group stage there were six groups which all contained four teams, but only the group winners and the two second-placed teams with the best records would qualify for the next round. In that season, Group C (Holders Real Madrid, 1998 UEFA Cup Winners Internazionale,

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However, the label is usually applied in anticipation of the tournament rather than in retrospect. Simon Burnton comments, "Inevitably, one of the big teams involved gets so scared about being in the Group of Death that they play really badly, meaning not only that they go home in disappointment and

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Many refer to Group E at this summer's World Cup as the "Group of Death." It's the strongest by far of the six four-team alignments, and at least one well-regarded team thus will not advance to the second round. The characterization might be a bit harsh. Perhaps the "Group of Surprises" is a better

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The Group of Death, as the Italians call the World Cup group confined to the islands of Sardinia and Sicily, promises to come to the most dramatic conclusion of the first round. The four teams are inseparable and, whatever the results this weekend, the permutations cannot be fully unravelled until

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to provide an even distribution of strong and weak competitors across all preliminary groups. However, in association football, the ranking methods used for seeding may be crude. In the World Cup, until 2018 the usual strategy was for each group to contain one seeded team and three unseeded teams,

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which is unusually competitive, because the number of strong competitors in the group is greater than the number of qualifying places available for the next phase of the tournament. Thus, in the group phase, one or more strong competitors in the "group of death" will necessarily be eliminated, who

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A regular visitor to the language of football, this nice piece of hyperbole appears whenever World Cup draws are held, but can make an intermediate appearance at European Championships or other regional tournaments too. It is so familiar that commentators promptly debate which of the groups drawn

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After the draw for a tournament has been made, debates often arise about which of the preliminary groups is "the" group of death. This happens for multiple reasons: in part, from more general debates about the relative strengths of the various competitors; but, additionally, because there is no

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The six have been nicknamed the Group of Death, writes Mark Skipworth in The Sunday Times of London. Three of the six - Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia - have recently been at war and two others - North and South Korea - have never officially ended their state of conflict. (The sixth team is from

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I called this the group of death because there wasn't a big country to brighten it, to capture the imagination, to get people out of the house and into Hampden Park. Romania and Bulgaria have outstanding talents but they are not a draw. The Swiss are the same, emergent and improving, but not

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says, "In soccer, every nation always thinks it has been stiffed into the toughest pool, the Group of Death." In this sense, David Warren comments that a "top seeding in a finals group gives a country a good chance to advance and the best chance to avoid a so-called group of death".

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If that notorious nickname of 1986, "The Group of Death," which was used to describe Scotland's section in the World Cup finals in Mexico, was the child of an over-enthusiastic hack, three of the teams in Group B of the Champions' League would consider it a mild moniker for their

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Georgetown and Maryland, of course, is in that Group of Death Midwest region where you've got Tennessee, Ohio State, Oklahoma State, Michigan State, a totally known but damn good Iowa State team. Why the NCAA Tournament would stack the region where the overall No. 1 is I don't

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At the 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup, they call Group B the Group of Death because its quartet of high-ranked and unpredictable teams are capable of defeating any opponent. . . . But after Tuesday's pair of gloomy, rain-drenched opening ties , Group B has suddenly become sudden

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It was said before Scotland's participation in the finals of the 1986 World Cup that, having been drawn with Denmark, Germany and Uruguay, they had been placed in the Group of Death, but this time it could be said they are in the Group of Certain

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as far as the others are concerned, the next worse thing: the Greeks. They share the Orthodox religion with the Serbs, and give them strong diplomatic support. Pity Denmark, the reigning European champions, who make up the group.

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Group E contains three of the top 10 teams in the current world ratings – No. 2 Italy, No. 4 Norway and No. 10 Ireland. Meanwhile, Mexico won the CONCACAF Gold Cup over the summer and made a very good showing at the Copa

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had lowly teams replaying poorly-attended matches; after many postponements, Robert Pryce commented: "The Leyland Daf Cup Southern Section preliminary round's Group of Death has achieved almost total rigor mortis."

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what had turned out to be the World Cup's Group of Life. The supporters of all four competing nations would have woken up in various cities in Germany yesterday morning with dreams of further glory in their

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looked daunting but was shrugged aside by the Netherlands, the co-hosts, and France, the eventual champions, with the Czechs, runners-up in 1996, and the Danes, winners in 1992, offering scant resistance.

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Johan Cruyff on AFC Ajax, who will play AC Milan, FC Barcelona and Celtic FC in Group H: "It's a fantastic thing for football that these clubs get drawn against other. It's another group of champions ..."

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The danger of Group E was recognized as soon as it was announced at the tournament draw last December. Italy, Ireland, Norway and Mexico were immediately dubbed members of "The Group of Death." The name

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Lacey, David (9 December 1999). "Soccer: Nobody gets to be drawn until the fat guy sings - The Eternal City on the hopes, fears and ephemera surrounding this afternoon's World Cup lucky dip".

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Lacey, David (15 November 1988). "Robson landed with a flight of fancy; David Lacey on England's Concorde trip to Saudi Arabia for a friendly in the Gulf which stretches the credibility gap".

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Omar Borras, who managed the Uruguayans in the 1986 World Cup, went into the tournament remarking that their first-round draw with West Germany, Scotland and Denmark was "the group of death"

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said after Argentina's demolition of Serbia and Montenegro, "Argentina produced one of the great performances in recent World Cup history. The group of death has become the group of life."

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Mexico will play in the World Cup's Group E, which includes Italy, Ireland and Norway and is known as the "Group of Death" because three teams are ranked among the top 15 in the world.

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that the body was seriously considering rescheduling the draw for future World Cups to be much closer in time to the competition. However, this change could not be implemented for the

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Carling insists that England's pool is "the group of death", rather than the section containing Australia, South Africa, Canada and Romania which already has been given that lurid tag

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There are six first-round groups in the World Cup tournament. It has been a tournament tradition to look at the assignments and to refer to one of the six as the "Group of Death."

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The "Group of Death" contains all champions of their respective leagues with Dortmund claiming the Bundesliga title for the second straight year and Ajax winning the Dutch crown.

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Group E, otherwise known as the "Group of Death," lived up to its name. All four teams in the group - Mexico, Ireland, Italy and Norway - had a 1-1-1 record and four points each.

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to determine placement in the "pots" for the draw. However, the draw has traditionally been held nearly three years before the competition. For example, the pool draw for the

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said, "No self-respecting Group of Death would be caught dead with North Korea in it... As far as I'm concerned, there is no Group of Death in this World Cup." Spain manager

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Even in competitions that give no seeding advantage to hosts or defending champions, "group of death" scenarios can still emerge. For example, the draw for the pools of the

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Then there was Alex Ferguson of Scotland, whose team had the misfortune of competing with Denmark, West Germany and Uruguay in what became known as the "Group of Death."

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attractive. A France, an Italy, a Germany, even an England in our case, was needed to lift the thing. But we have one last chore and the Scotland team I wanted is here.

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There is always one "group of death" in soccer's World Cups. In the US next year there may be two. making Brazil's Group B and Italy's Group E potentially the toughest.

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Barcelona is in what amounts to a Group of Champions with A.C. Milan, Ajax Amsterdam and Glasgow Celtic; those four clubs have combined for 16 European championships.

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By definition, every World Cup draw must have a Group of Death, a phrase translated into virtually every language – the Todesgruppe, they were calling it around here.

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The Group of Death has always been an ugly misnomer, although as every big tournament now seems obliged to identify its corpses early, the World Cup has to have one.

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featured two sets of militantly hostile neighbours: Iran, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia; and North Korea, South Korea, and Japan. This was called the "group of death" for

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the Mexicans also gave a title to 1986's Group Six. England, Poland, Portugal and Morocco, the locals in Monterrey were fond of saying, was the 'Group of Sleep'.

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Sometimes the excitement of a close contest between high-quality teams has suggested the positive "group of life" is more appropriate than "group of death". Of

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Brazil were drawn in the world cup group which coach Carlos Alberto Parreira called 'the group of death'. Brazil plays Russia, Cameroon and Sweden in Group B."

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The Scots would be extremely unlucky to get a 1990 equivalent of Mexico's 'Group of death' when they found themselves facing Uruguay, West Germany and Denmark.

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The "Group of Death" may simply be the one with the highest average team ranking overall. Using FIFA World Rankings as a measure of the strength of the teams,

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TWO "groups of death" emerged from the Nevada desert in yesterday's soccer World Cup draw. The draw made Brazil's Group B and Italy's Group E the toughest.

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Some are calling it the "Group of Death," if only because at most three of the four can advance to the second round. Meaning: At least one of them won't.

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Group E (Queretaro, Nezahualcoyotl) This has come to be known as El Grupo de la Muerte (The Group of Death) because three of the top 10 teams are in it.

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Western commentators dubbed the 13-day tournament in Qatar the "Group of Death" since fate had brought together six potentially volatile elements.

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However, "Group of Life" has also been used as the opposite of "Group of Death", to mean an easy group with weak teams. Chuck Culpepper wrote of

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We should back the underdog - Romania is in the group of death with France, Italy and the Netherlands, and they need all the help they can get.

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Group E, comprising Denmark, Scotland, West Germany and Uruguay, has been labeled the "Group of Death" because of the strength of the teams.

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China was 17th at Barcelona and slotted in what coach Jiang Xingquan calls the group of death, against three teams China has never bested.

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Group E was the "Group of Death," a group with no weaklings, a group in which any of the four teams could, on a given day, beat any other.

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both for groups where all teams are former champions of that competition, and for groups where all teams are reigning domestic champions.

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Having survived the "group of death" in the opening round, the West Indies find themselves in a similar position at the super eight stage

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Chad, Norman (25 May 1986). "World's Eyes on Mexico: Month-Long Tournament Beginning May 31 Will Be Magnet for Hundreds of Million".

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so called because of the quality of the four squads. But the term assumed more sinister connotations as one tackle followed another.

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teams are significantly stronger than others. The net result was that some groups may have had stronger teams than others. From the

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as a "group of death" in a different sense because of the lack of a glamorous opponent "to get people out of the house and into

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There may be an emphasis on the "group of death" having a tight finish, with all four teams in contention. This was the case in

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would otherwise have been expected to progress further in the tournament. The informal term was first used for groups in the

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Mulligan, Mike; Diether Endlicher (17 July 1994). "Battle of the Titans; Brazil, Italy Still Tower Over Rest of the World".

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Reid, Scott M. (25 June 1994). "Mexico tops Ireland; Group E deadlocked All four teams have 3 points in 'Group of Death'".

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In the case of UEFA qualifying tournaments, groups have deeper seeding and always feature some weaker teams. For example,

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If Ireland is in the inevitable group of death alongside France and Argentina, then England's is the group of attrition

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Lovejoy, Joe (21 December 1993). "Republic miss comfort zone; Germany's easy group ride makes them clear favourites".

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and Romania. This was considered a "group of death" with Romania as underdogs against three of Europe's top sides.

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for Euro 2008 was dubbed the "group of death" in Scotland because Scotland were drawn against Italy, France, and

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Group E: Italy, Ireland, Norway, Mexico. Probably the toughest group. Some analysts already are calling it the

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tournament draw, financial writer Chris Sloley coined the term "Group of Debt" for a possible group comprising

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People love talking about groups of death at European Championships, World Cups and even the Champions League.

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La Suisse se retrouve, en effet, dans le groupe E qui est très loin de s'apparenter à un groupe de la "mort".

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did earn a No. 1 seed with an undefeated season. But they were given the "Group of Death" bracket with No. 8

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No World Cup is complete without either a Group of Death or a sticker album, and Group C delivers both items

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Group of Death - The term 'Group of Death' was first coined by the Mexican press in 1970 to describe Group 3

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Lack of consensus about which is the group of death can fuel debates among fans and journalists. In the

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only one of the eight four-team clusters to have all four teams in contention entering the final games.

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The reigning champion and the host nation or nations are traditionally among the seeds. In the case of

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as the "Group of Certain Death" because Scotland were grouped with the Netherlands, Germany, and the

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Glenn, Patrick (13 November 1991). "Roxburgh sure of delivery - Group Two: Scotland v San Marino".

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Mullin, John (13 December 1995). "It's War: World Cup squares up for the battle of the Balkans".

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Wales tackle France in our opening fixture in what has chillingly been dubbed the Group of Death.

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The label "group of death" has been used in other sports than association football; for example:

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Traynor, James (8 June 1992). "Let's be brave and add a touch of arrogance to our challenge".

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Fans may describe as the "group of death" any tough group which contains their favoured team.

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because of the strength of its four teams. The others are Uruguay, Scotland team and Denmark.

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Chapman, Doug (28 June 1994). "Ireland will play short-handed in key match against Norway".

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He believes that there is no Group of Death but singled out Group G as a major battlefield.

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Shane, Jeff (20 December 1993). "Group E: 'Group of Death'". United Press International.

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a tough Euro 2008 qualifying group which will see his side face France, Italy and Ukraine

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Harrell, John (16 June 1994). "Mix of talent, tactics make for most intriguing quartet".

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Toughest of the four . Three teams won a major-conference title. Five teams are in the

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The draw with Mexico left the Italians in third place in the so-called Group of Death.

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the Midwest bracket, dubbed "The Group of Death" by those who follow World Cup soccer

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Ziegler, Mark (19 January 1994). "Fiesta expected tonight for soccer doubleheader".

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Group E - dubbed the "Group of Death" because of its top-to-bottom competitiveness

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Mr Prospector (26 May 2002). "Best bets: stick with France and ignore the buzz".

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was dubbed as the Group of Death as it contains the bottom of the top 10 of the

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onwards this system has been changed, with a distribution of teams based on the

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had no argument with the journalists who quickly christened the Group of Death.

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It is often assumed that a tournament has precisely one Group of Death. In the

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Romania are the unlucky team to be in Group C, the inevitable "Group of Death"

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Paul, Ian (23 November 1992). "Dutch can live in the Milan 'Group of Death'".

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has had its fair share of groups of death: highlights include Group H in the

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Se puede decir que el primer "Grupo de la Muerte" en la historia lo fue el 3

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Brown, Brian (1 June 1986). "All the World Cup's a stage for soccer epic".

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Lief, Fred (22 May 1986). "World Cup Roundup". United Press International.

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Only the top team in this group of death would qualify for the semi-finals.

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with the unseeded teams picked from separate regional confederations. Some

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Haydon, John (3 July 1994). "First-round games full of goals and upsets".

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said Switzerland was "far from being in a group of 'death'" when drawn in

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was the group of death because it had two of the top five nations in the

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It's not quite the Group of champions that was so disastrous last season

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Palmer, Bryn (1 October 2001). "Falcons' fatal blow in Group of Death".

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American television, leaving no cliche unturned, promptly christened it

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are in the so-called Group of Death with Argentina and the host nation.

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O'Driscoll, Brian (7 October 2003). "A man born to take centre stage".

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Lief, Fred (14 June 1986). "Sports News". United Press International.

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The simplest game: the intelligent fan's guide to the world of soccer

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Lléo; Karel Stokkermans; Michael Hynes; et al. (3 March 2003).

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The term is sometimes derided as a purely journalistic invention, a

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Minshull, Phil (1 December 1993). "Saudi soccer success in Qatar".

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Meanwhile in Group G at Oslo – the hotly contested "Group of Death"

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Luxbacher, Joe (17 April 1994). "Here's World Cup team groupings".

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introduced, but with continental limitations still to be retained.

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Reusse, Patrick (20 June 1994). "Uff da: Norway on quite a roll".

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Mifflin, Lawrie (28 June 1994). "Death on the World Cup Express".

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