Articles tagged with "fifa-rankings"
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Laurie | Jul 3rd, 2008
It happens every month. FIFA's new rankings come out, and everybody groans and says, "There is no possible way Team X is better than ...
Posted on: Belgium World Cup Team Blog by julien | Jul 2nd, 2008
Belgium moved up in the new FIFA rankings to 46th. We moved up 3 spots from the last release. The rankings were just updated today. ...
Posted on: Scotland World Cup Team Blog by Ian Rose | Jun 4th, 2008
FIFA's World Rankings are out today, and it's another minor slip for the Scots, as we drop from 15th to 17th. The friendly loss ...
Posted on: Czech Republic Euro 2008 Blog by Os Davis | Dec 18th, 2007
...behind only Argentina, Brazil, Italy, Spain, and Germany. Not too shabby at all...
Who else thinks the Czechs are going to do some serious damage in ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Jul 18th, 2007
While the teams in Europe were rubbing suntan lotion on each other during the summer break, the top two teams in South America were working ...
Posted on: Portugal Euro 2008 Blog by Luis | Apr 18th, 2007
I thought this day would never come, but apparently miracles do happen. Portugal has risen to seventh place in the new FIFA rankings. ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Oct 18th, 2006
It is that time of the month when we all get to sit back and chuckle at the FIFA rankings system. There is once ...
Posted on: Portugal Euro 2008 Blog by Luis | Sep 13th, 2006
Well, it's time for a another installment of "make sense of the new FIFA rankings". This time around, Portugal has dropped one spot to ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Jul 12th, 2006
The all new, all singing, all dancing FIFA world rankings were revealed today. Sepp Blatter and co have given the system a bit of an ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Jun 24th, 2006
It is always fun to look back at the things we talked about before the World Cup. We've already shown you that our predictions ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Jun 23rd, 2006
Over the past few months we've tried our best to help American Samoa to move out of 205th spot in FIFA's rankings but the island ...
Posted on: Ecuador World Cup Team Blog by Trent | May 17th, 2006
Ecuador remain 39th in the FIFA rankings.
Groups A foes are ranked as follows:
Germany - 19
Poland - 29
Costa Rica - 26
Posted on: France Euro 2008 Blog by Chriso | Apr 7th, 2006
Anyone looking at the FIFA rankings will know there are a lot of anomalies in them, but if you take FIFA's list at face value ...
Posted on: Togo World Cup Team Blog by Nick O'Neill | Apr 3rd, 2006
Togo coach Otto Pfister was hired with just 100 days before the World Cup in Germany. FIFA has Togo ranked 4th in Group G after ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Mar 24th, 2006
I am a bit of a nerd this way, but one of the things I really enjoy about the World Cup is that I get ...
Posted on: Australia World Cup Team Blog by WC Bob | Mar 15th, 2006
Take that Jamaica, Israel, Finland andSerbia & Montenegro! We're ranked ahead of you now. How do you like them apples?
We're coming after you ...
Posted on: Ecuador World Cup Team Blog by Trent | Mar 15th, 2006
It’s worth noting, as mentioned here, that these are the good old days of Ecuadorian international football. It’s not easy to qualify out ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Mar 15th, 2006
There aren't too many people who take FIFA's rankings very seriously. Using a complex system that rewards past performance more than it rewards present ...
Posted on: Angola World Cup Team Blog by WC Bob | Mar 15th, 2006
I see from the latest FIFA rankings that Angola is ranked 6oth in the world, which makes us the lowest ranked team to qualify for ...
Posted on: Mexico World Cup Team Blog by John | Mar 15th, 2006
Mexico fell one spot to #7 in the latest round of FIFA rankings. Does anyone know what purpose the FIFA rankings serve ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Mar 15th, 2006
It is that time of the month where you are asked to suspend reality and to believe that FIFA's ranking system actually makes sense. ...
Posted on: Ecuador World Cup Team Blog by Trent | Mar 15th, 2006
Ecuador stay at no. 38 in FIFA's latest world rankings. And there are still about 13 teams ranked higher who won't be attending the ...
Posted on: Ecuador World Cup Team Blog by Trent | Mar 2nd, 2006
La Tri, freshly defeated by the Netherlands 1-0, will arrive in Quito tomorrow afternoon. The palyers are currently in Madrid, where they arrived late ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Feb 15th, 2006
Come on, American Samoa. Get your act together! You are still ranked dead last in the latest FIFA rankings. Surely you can ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Feb 12th, 2006
Did you know that the Czech Republic is ranked second in FIFA's rankings of world teams? Despite this lofty ranking, there doesn't seem to ...
Posted on: Czech Republic Euro 2008 Blog by Wendy | Jan 28th, 2006
...it's got to be true.
Pele has told the Reuters news agency that he thinks the Czech Republic could spring a surprise at this year's World ...
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | Jan 19th, 2006
USA have moved up one place to 7th in the new FIFA rankings, meaning we're now officially better than England (9th), Portugal (10th), Group ...
