🇲🇽 Mexico · 🇿🇦 South Africa · 🇰🇷 South Korea · 🇨🇿 Czechia
Group A
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A1 · Pot 1
🇲🇽
Mexico
CONCACAF · Co-host
Hosts in Group A, playing all three games on home soil. Back-to-back CONCACAF titles but wobbly v South American sides.
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A2🇿🇦
South Africa
CAF
Bafana Bafana back at a World Cup after 16 years. Young, expressive, largely home-based; Broos preaches discipline and counter-attack.
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A3🇰🇷
South Korea
AFC
Son-led and unbeaten in qualifying, with the most European depth Korea has ever brought. Attack-rich; defensive structure the question.
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A4🇨🇿
Czechia
UEFA
Back at a World Cup after 20 years via a nerve-shredding double penalty-shootout playoff. Pragmatic, defensive, lethal through Schick.
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