How Switzerland joined the World Cup seeded elite
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GENEVA (AP) - There is one certainty among many possibilities offered by the World Cup draw Friday: Most teams want to be in Switzerland's group.
The rise of the unheralded Swiss in the FIFA rankings has brought a tournament seeding that will allow the country to avoid many of the top teams in the group stage.
Switzerland's status, however, demands an explanation for fans who don't recall that this landlocked Alpine nation of 8 million hosted the Read more [...]