WORLD CUP DRAW

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28606, 7 June 1958, Page 5

WORLD CUP DRAW

Play in the World Cup Soccer : tournament will begin in Sweden ■ tomorrow. Games will be played I in 12 Swedish cities, and the : group matches to determine the • quarter-finalists will be concluded j by June 15. As with the preliminary rounds, ■ a regional system has been : adopted for the placing of teams ■ in the final groups. Each of the ■ four groups in Sweden contains : one team from each of Britain, ; Eastern Europe, Western Europe. ■ and America. : The winners and runners-up, ; decided on a points basis, enter the I quarter-finals, from which stage : the competition is a knock-out ■ one. - : The Draw The full draw for the group ■ matches is:— I Group 1: June 8, Argentina v. ■ Germany, Northern Ireland v. ■ Czechoslovakia. June 11, Czecho- : Slovakia v. Germany, Argentina v. ■ Northern Ireland. June 15, North- ■ ern Ireland v. Germany, Argentina : v. Czechoslovakia. Group 2: June 8, France v. Para- : guay; Jugoslavia v. Scotland. June ; 11, Paraguay v. Scotland, France ; v. Jugoslavia. June 15, Paraguay ■ v Jugoslavia, France v. Scotland. : Group 3: June 8, Sweden v. ; ' Mexico. June 10, Hungary v. • Wales. June 11, Mexico v. Wales, i June 12, Sweden v. Hungary. June ; 15, Sweden v. Wales, Mexico v. ■ Hungary. Group 4: June 8, England v. ■ Russia, Brazil v. Austria. June j 11, Brazil v. England, Russia v. : Austria. June 15, Brazil ,v. Rus- ■ sia. England v. Austria. In the quarter-finals, the win- : ner of Group 1 will play the ■ runner-up of Group 2 and vice- : versa, with a similar arrangement : operating between Groups 3 and • 4. The first semi-final wiu be con- ; tested by the two winners out of ; Group 1 and 2 quarter-finals, the : second by those of the Group 3 : and 4 quarter-finals. This means ■ that no single group can provide : both finalists, a disappointing • feature since Group 4 is clearly : the strongest and is expected to : provide two semi-finalists.