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Kylian Mbappe and Erling Haaland will face off at the World Cup<\/p>\nThe draw for the 2026 World Cup has been made ahead of next year’s tournament in USA, Mexico and Canada with several tasty ties including Scotland meeting Brazil for the fifth time at the finalsKylian Mbappe and Erling Haaland will face off at the World Cup<\/p>\n
Steve Clarke was handed another daunting showdown with Brazil – but the Scotland<\/a> boss insisted it was a \u201cgreat group.\u201d<\/p>\n Incredibly, Scotland have now drawn Brazil in five of the last seven World Cups they have qualified for and the South Americans beat them in their last appearance in the tournament in 1998.<\/p>\n Scotland boss Clarke, who will also face Morocco and Haiti, said: \u201cIt\u2019s a good draw. It\u2019s a great group. I didn\u2019t want any European teams, I wanted teams from different continents and we got that. Three great teams to play against and something to look forward to next summer.<\/p>\n READ MORE: Thomas Tuchel reacts to England World Cup draw and potential tie from “another galaxy”<\/a>READ MORE: England’s World Cup opponents and path to final as Three Lions learn fate<\/a><\/p>\n “You see how the draw was going on and teams were getting pushed down and I thought we were going to end up in that section.<\/p>\n \u201cBrazil is always a good game and it\u2019s nice to get them.<\/p>\n “But Morocco is also a tough opponent and it\u2019s two teams who, the last time we were at a World Cup, were teams that beat us.<\/p>\n “So hopefully this time we can do a little bit better against them.\u201d<\/p>\n Canada boss Jesse Marsch has said he is to ready to renew rivalries with Wales boss Craig Bellamy – but admitted he would rather Italy make it through their qualifier.<\/p>\n Marsch was involved in a bust-up with Bellamy when the two nations met in a friendly earlier this year.<\/p>\n READ MORE: Gianni Infantino snubs Kevin Hart as awkward World Cup draw moment spotted<\/a>READ MORE: BBC commentator lays into World Cup draw and Gianni Infantino – ‘The man knows no shame’<\/a><\/p>\n Former Leeds boss Marsch said: \u201cLook, Bellamy said he wanted to play us and Wales is in there.<\/p>\n “Bosnia is a really good team, Northern Ireland are in there \u2013 it\u2019s a really competitive group and people will be expecting Italy to come out of it, but it\u2019s not going to be easy for Italy.\u201d<\/p>\n The draw also threw up a huge clash between France – in a tough Group also featuring Senegal – and Norway and a potential showdown between two of the world<\/a>\u2019s best strikers in Kylian Mbappe and Erling Haaland<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The draw for the 2026 World Cup has been made ahead of next year’s tournament in USA, Mexico…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":615123,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5009],"tags":[748,51788,191702,4884,104391,15160,712,13315,70571,16,15,191191],"class_list":{"0":"post-615122","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scotland","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-craig-bellamy","10":"tag-erling-braut-haaland","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-jesse-marsch","13":"tag-kylian-mbappe","14":"tag-scotland","15":"tag-scotland-football-team","16":"tag-steve-clarke","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom","19":"tag-world-cup-draw"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115670534547167397","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Wales](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/0_Wales-v-Canada-International-Friendly.jpg\")
Canada boss Jesse Marsch (R) will reunite his rivalry with Craig Bellamy if Wales qualify(Image: Offside via Getty Images)<\/p>\n