The World Cup draw, which went down Friday in Doha amid awkward glitz and glamor, inevitably leads to a ravenous search for the "Group of Death." It's the name that, over decades of World Cup history, has been given to the four-team group out of which any two-team pairing could emerge. It's the group from which contenders will crash and burn, ultimately undone by the draw's devastating randomness.
But in 2022, there isn't one.
There's no Group of Death.
There is, instead, one Group of Life that skewed the draw, and defined its winners and losers.