{"id":17588,"date":"2017-12-01T14:56:54","date_gmt":"2017-12-01T13:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/12\/01\/world-cup-2018-draw-live\/"},"modified":"2017-12-01T14:56:54","modified_gmt":"2017-12-01T13:56:54","slug":"world-cup-2018-draw-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=17588","title":{"rendered":"World Cup 2018 draw \u2013 live!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russia 2018 groups decided at draw in Moscow, from 3pm GMTStadium guide | Create your own draw | How the draw worksAnd feel free to email Simon or tweet him @Simon_Burnton 1.56pm GMT A remarkable statistic: there were a total of 871 matches played in 2018 World Cup qualifying, which works out as 54 days, 10 hours and 30 minutes of qualifying football. Plus stoppages. 1.50pm GMT You may have missed the unveiling of the new Man of the Match trophy, which took place at the State Kremlin Palace yesterday. \u201cThe trophy is awarded to the best football player of each match, who will be selected by fans around the world,\u201d Fifa declared. \u201cLionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo and Neymar are among the high-profile players to have been named Man of the Match in previous Fifa World Cups.\u201d Fifa promised that \u201ca football legend\u201d would be on hand for the unveiling and they were as good as their word, wheeling out none other than David Seaman: Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/live\/2017\/dec\/01\/world-cup-2018-draw-russia-live\" target=\"_blank\">World Cup 2018 draw \u2013 live!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia 2018 groups decided at draw in Moscow, from 3pm GMTStadium guide | Create your own draw | How the draw worksAnd feel free to email Simon or tweet him @Simon_Burnton 1.56pm GMT A remarkable statistic: there were a total of 871 matches played in 2018 World Cup qualifying, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}