[Canadian_Supporter]

The draw will be held tomorrow at 10am EST.

Canada has been placed in bowl C along with Egypt, Ivory Coast, Mali, Burkina Faso, and USA. Thus they cannot meet any of the above teams in the group stage. For a full listings of the bowls...

http://www.fifa.com/u20/2003/UAE2003_draw_proc.pdf

[Canadian_Supporter]

Canada is with

Czech Republic, Australia, Brazil.

The other groups:

http://www.fifa.com/Service/MR_A/51001_E.html

Group A looks like the weakest, but not sense complaining. Canada will just knock off Brazil early in the tournament

[Martin Fischer]

I saw Brazil play 3 times in the South America under 23s. They looked real good a lot of the time but still struggled to beat the other good sides (Paraguay, Uruguay, Colombia and Argentina -- actually drew with Parguay and Argentina). No one player really stood out, though I would say it is a bit more of a right-sided team than a left-sided one.

[Canadian_Supporter]

Thanks for the info.

Canada played Brazil at the 2001 WYC in Argentina and I think we lost 2-0.

[Canadian_Supporter]

Canadian schedule:

Group C - Sharjah
26 March 03 Brazil v Canada
29 March 03 Australia v Canada
01 April 03 Canada v Czech Rep

Winner gets third place from A, B, or F.
2nd place gets 2nd from Group A.
3rd place, if qualified, gets the winner or A or B

[Daniel from Montréal]

Playing Brasil 1st will be good as we won't risk feeling eliminated after one game like we did in 2001. Australia and Czech Rep. seem beatable.

[Krammerhead]

Originally posted by Daniel from Montréal
Playing Brasil 1st will be good as we won't risk feeling eliminated after one game like we did in 2001. Australia and Czech Rep. seem beatable.

Thats highly optimistic.

[Daniel from Montréal]

Originally posted by Krammerhead
Thats highly optimistic.

Well that depends how you interpret "beatable". Playing 10 times against either Czech or Australia, I'm think we could probably win 4-6 times.