I suppose we have to start somewhere...
From Fox Sports:
SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) - Brazil coach Carlos Alberto Parreira says he hopes his team ducks difficult opponents in Friday's World Cup draw to avoid the fate of France and Argentina in 2002.
Brazil is heavily favored to win next year's tournament in Germany, but four years ago in South Korea and Japan favorites Argentina and France were eliminated in the group stage.
"We will hope that not-so-strong adversaries are drawn to Brazil's group," Parreira, in Leipzig to watch the draw, told the Brazilian Soccer Confederation's Web site. "It would be good to avoid what happened to Argentina and France in 2002."
Brazil "will need the same luck as in 2002 to avoid strong adversaries," read a headline in the O Estado de S. Paulo newspaper. "Brazil could face Portugal or the Netherlands in the early stages."
Brazil drew China, Costa Rica and Turkey at the 2002 World Cup.
"A complicated scenario would put Brazil in a group against the Netherlands, Serbia-Montenegro and Australia," the Folha de S. Paulo newspaper said. "But it also could fall into a 'joke group' with Switzerland, Togo and Trinidad and Tobago."