Death group
In sporting jargon - especially in the tabloid press - the expression death group or hammer group describes a preliminary round group of a tournament in which (almost) only strong teams meet.
Since z. For example, if two teams out of a group of four usually qualify for the next round, this dramatic, martial term is also used when three of four teams are so strong that they are counted among the favorites. Even teams rated as strong have a high risk of being eliminated in the preliminary round.
Examples
Examples from football can be cited in the field of tournaments for national teams:
- The Group E at the World Cup in 1986 with Germany , Uruguay , Scotland and Denmark
- The Group B at the World Cup women's 1999 European champions Germany , South American champions Brazil and European runner-up Italy .
- The Group D at Euro 2000 with world champion France , Denmark , Netherlands and European runners-up Czech Republic
- The Group F at the 2002 World Cup with Argentina , Nigeria , England and Sweden
- The Group A at the World Cup women 2003 with defending champion United States , African champions Nigeria , European runner-up Sweden and Asian champions North Korea , then sprang the later second and third placed teams from the.
- The Group D at Euro 2004 with the Czech Republic , Latvia , Germany and Netherlands
- The Group C at the 2006 World Cup with Argentina , Ivory Coast , Serbia and Montenegro and Netherlands
- The Group B at the World Cup of Women in 2007 with USA , Sweden and North Korea , which in the FIFA World Ranking places 1, 3 (also runners-up) and 5 occupied.
- The Group C at Euro 2008 with the Netherlands , Italy , Romania and France , to the start of the tournament places 3, 7, 10 and 12 (also runners-up) of the FIFA World Ranking occupied.
- The Group B at Euro 2012 with the Netherlands , Denmark , Germany and Portugal , the places 3, 4, 9 and 10 of the tournament to start FIFA World Ranking occupied.
See also
- FIFA World Cup: Milestones, facts & figures - Statistical Kit 7 (PDF; 538 kB), Section Groups of Death , page 14
Individual evidence
- ↑ Andreas Hütig and Johannes Marx: Thinking apart: Football in culture, philosophy and science , Agon Sportverlag (2004), page 162
- ↑ a b Statistical Kit FIFA Women's World Cup Canada 2015 ™, page 38 ( Memento from January 28, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ spiegel.de: "EM draw: smiling through the death group"