Familiar Cup opponent likely
New Zealand will almost certainly have to beat a fellow World Cup soccer finalist from Spain if it is to advance to the last 24 nations in Mexico City in 1986. The draw group compositions for qualifying rounds for the thirteenth World Cup were announced in Zurich. New Zealand will play off with Australia, Israel, and Taiwan to be the Oceania representative competing for the 24th place. That group will play a round of matches in Australia, and another in New Zealand, which should certainly give those two nations an excellent chance of progressing. Presuming New Zealand does represent Oceania, its
most likely opponent would be Poland or Belgium (European group one); Austria, Hungary or the Netherlands (group five); or Spain, Wales or Scotland (group seven). Of these, only Wales and the Netherlands were not at Spain last year. All qualifying matches must be played by November 15, 1985. The other European teams and their groups are: Group one: Greece, Albania; group two: West Germany, Czechoslovakia, Sweden, Portugal, Malta; group three: England, Northern Ireland, Romania, Turkey, Finland; group four: France, Yugoslavia, East Germany, Bulgaria, Luxemburg. Group five: Cyprus; group six: Soviet Union, Denmark, Ireland, Switzerland, Norway; group seven: Iceland.
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