How France or Spain can be seeded at the World Cup finals for Russia 2018
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Steve Nicol says FIFA are fixing a system that isn't broken by deciding to seed every team for the 2018 World Cup draw.
France and Spain both still harbour hopes of being seeded at the World Cup finals in the Dec. 1 group-stage draw..
On paper, at least, they are outsiders to do it. The top-seven nations to qualify, based on FIFA's October World Ranking, will join Russia as seeds.
Guaranteed to be seeded (if they qualify) are: Germany, Brazil (already qualified), Portugal (unless they lose to Andorra) and Argentina.
This leaves at least three spaces open, and in the September ranking we saw France in eighth...