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The term "group of death" was coined (as Spanish: grupo de la muerte) by Mexican journalists for Group 3 of the 1970 FIFA World Cup. This featured reigning champions England, favourites and eventual champions Brazil, 1962 runners-up Czechoslovakia and Romania. It was used again for the second-phase Group C in the 1982 World Cup in Spain. This group...
Tournaments are often seeded 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, with the unseeded team...
In the FIFA World Cup tournament proper, the UEFA European Championship and the UEFA Champions League, 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 t...
The label "group of death" has been used in other sports than association football; for example: Badminton 1. 2021 Sudirman Cup Group A (where China, India and Thailand are placed in the same group) 2023 Sudirman Cup Group C(where India, Chinese Taipei and Malaysia are placed in the same group) Basketball 1. 1994 FIBA World Championship Group A; 20...
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"Group of death" has occasionally been used to characterise a qualifying group in some other way. The southern section preliminary round Group 5 of the 1990-91 Leyland DAF Cup 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." Scotland manager Andy Roxburgh described Euro 1992 qualifying Group 2 as a "group of death" in a different...
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Occasionally, alternatives to "group of death" are proffered. Javier Clemente said of 1998 World Cup Group D, "This is not the group of death, as some people have said. It is the group of heart attacks" John Harrell said of 1994 World Cup Group E, "The characterization might be a bit harsh. Perhaps the 'Group of Surprises' is a better term." Sometimes the excitement of a close contest between high-quality teams has suggested the positive "group of life" is more appropriate than "group of deat...
Ollie (4 December 2009) [3 December 2007]. "The top seven World Cup Groups of Death". Who ate all the Pies.Adams, Tom (4 December 2009). "Five of the best Groups of Death". soccernet. ESPN. Archived from the original on 7 December 2009. Retrieved 4 December 2009.Lléo; Karel Stokkermans; Michael Hynes; et al. (3 March 2003). "Groups of death". The Best of Rec.Sport.Soccer. RSSSF. Retrieved 8 December 2009.Samantha Lee and Cork Gaines (2 December 2017). "Charts show Russia's World Cup group is unlike the others". Business Insider. Retrieved 10 June 2018.The term incidents refers to major accidents, injuries, deaths that occur at a European park. While these incidents were required to be reported to regulatory authorities due to where they occurred, they usually fall into one of the following categories: [citation needed] Caused by negligence on the part of the guest.
Vilnius. / 54.68722°N 25.28000°E / 54.68722; 25.28000. Vilnius ( / ˈvɪlniəs / VIL-nee-əs, Lithuanian: [ˈvʲɪlʲnʲʊs] ⓘ; previously known in English as Vilna, see other names) is the capital of and largest city in Lithuania, and the second-most populous city in the Baltic states. As of January 2024, Vilnius' estimated ...
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