New FIFA World Rankings, Climbers and Fallers
Filed in archive World Cup 2006 on July 13, 2006
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The new FIFA World Rankings were released yesterday, based on new, improved criteria. Results from the last four instead of eight years are now used and the different weighting of various factors has been altered. For example goals scored and home advantage now have no impact whatsoever, while the importance of each match and the strength of opponent is given added weight. For a more detailed explanation, straight from the horses' mouth, click here
While the new rankings aren't perfect, they are a big improvement. Brazil keep 1st place, but Italy are breathing down their necks in 2nd (previously 13th). Argentina, France and England now complete the top five. Former top 5 anomalies Czech Republic and USA have dropped to a more realistic 10th and 16th respectively.
There seems to have been an overall shift benefitting European, African and South American teams, while CONCACAF and Asian nations have taken a bit of knock.
Ivory Coast, Cameroon and Nigeria are all in the top 20, while Ghana's good World Cup has seen them jump to 25th. How Guinea find themselves ranked 24th in the world is a bit of a mystery.
Mexico will feel hard done by, falling from 4th to 18th, while Japan and South Korea suddenly find themselves down in 49th and 56th place respectively.
Biggest climbers are Equatorial Guinea, who climb 59 places to 95th (seemingly based on their preliminary World Cup qualifying first leg 1-0 win over Togo). Biggest fallers are Saudi Arabia, who drop 47 places to 81st. Ouch.
To see the new FIFA World Rankings in full, click here.
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the ranking of the top 10 should go as folows
1.Brazil(played like BLEEP at WC but won confederations, if brazil didnt play those rich cocky bastards and played there bench, like cincinho, robinho, fred, they would have won..brazil has so many players, they can make 4 different WC teams and they would all place top 4, best team in the world but forgot that other teams can play soccer too)
2.Italy( won worldcup, can argue they should be #1 but you have to argue against brazil sooo:p also played like BLEEP at euros, also have no true star, cant say totti, luca toni or del piero are stars, above avg players)
3.France
4.Argentina(should have won WC and came 2nd in confederations)
5.Portugal(4th at worlds,2nd at euros and best WC qualifying team with like 9 wins 3 draws and 30 goals for and like 4 or 5 against)
6. Germany
7.England(got lucky at WC with BLEEP wins)
8.Spain
9.Holland
10.Mexico(should not have dropped so far, the made it to the round of 16 and lost to argentina in extra time)