Brazil will be the name every nation wants to avoid when the FIFA World Cup draw is made on Friday.
The competition s most decorated country will play host to the world s greatest football nations in 2014, with home advantage sure to boost their chances of claiming a sixth global crown and first since 2002.
Luiz Felipe Scolari s men will be one of eight seeded teams in the draw, which will be held at the Costa do Sauipe Resort in Bahia, but a number of big names could be pitched into a group-stage battle with them.
Included among the unseeded countries are the Netherlands, the 2010 runners-up, and 2006 champions Italy, who were not in the top seven of FIFA s world rankings when the seedings were determined in October.
France and Uruguay s qualification via the pl…