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Once we got past the glad-handing, the singing, the dancing, the prancing and Charlize Theron channeling her character from “Arrested Development” (most people like to refer to her as “Oscar-winner Charlize Theron” but I prefer to refer to her as “the former star from ‘Arrested Development’”), the fates of the 32 teams that qualified for next summer’s 2010 World Cup were revealed Friday in Cape Town, South Africa.
After Theron, a handful of famous African athletes — and David Beckham — pulled the balls from the four pots on the dais, the fears of some countries were allayed (England, United States, Spain, Italy), while a couple of nations (Côte d’Ivoire, Portugal) will spend the next six months wondering if FIFA has an agenda against them.
Overall, though, the eight groups seem about as fair as they could have possibly turned out.
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