SAINTS defender Dejan Lovren and his Croatian colleagues have been drawn against hosts Brazil in next summer's World Cup.
Mexico and Cameroon make up Group A.
St Mary's colleague Maya Yoshida and his Japan colleagues have a much easier group, on paper, against Colombia, Greece and the Ivory Coast.
World Cup groups.
Group A: Brazil, Croatia, Mexico, Cameroon.
Group B: Spain, Netherlands, Chile, Australia.
Group C: Colombia, Greece, Côte d’Ivoire, Japan.
Group D: Uruguay, Costa Rica, England, Italy.
Group E: Switzerland, Ecuador, France, Honduras.
Group F: Argentina, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Iran, Nigeria.
Group G: Germany, Portugal, Ghana, USA.
Group H: Belgium, Algeria, Russia, Korea Republic.
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