All things considered, Australia’s draw for the 2026 World Cup can’t be described as simple. But it’s also fair to say that things could have gone a lot worse. And at an expanded, 48-team tournament, it is a group that the Socceroos should not be overawed by.
At the end of a sometimes ridiculous, sometimes cringe-inducing, and sometimes shameless draw in Washington DC, Australia’s men had found themselves sorted into Group D by the time the Village People closed the show. They will begin the tournament placed alongside co-hosts the United States, South American foes Paraguay, and a European qualifier to be drawn from one of Turkey, Slovakia, Kosovo, or Romania.
