U.S drop from Top 30 in FIFA World Rankings

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Posted by Saka on Nov-23-2006 18:17:

U.S drop from Top 30 in FIFA World Rankings

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The United States is not ranked among the top 30 in soccer rankings for the first time in more than seven years.
The U.S. team, ranked as high as fifth in May before a poor showing at the World Cup, fell two points to No. 31 in November's FIFA rankings Wednesday. The last time the U.S. was not in the top 30 was June of 1999, when it was also No. 31.

Brazil stayed No. 1, while Nigeria moved up to ninth and Russia jumped 10 places for its highest position in more than three years.

Brazil has 1,588 points, with World Cup champion Italy second with 1,560. Brazil has been ranked No. 1 since July of 2002.

Italy's 1-1 draw with Turkey in a Nov. 15 friendly in Turkey would have been enough to pull even with Brazil in ranking points. But the Brazilians increased their lead at the top by beating Switzerland 2-1 in a friendly the same night.

Argentina moved up to No. 3 with 1,551 points, swapping places with France (1,523).

England, Germany and the Netherlands remain at Nos. 5, 6 and 7, with Nigeria moving up two places from 11th and the Czech Republic falling two places to 10th.

Spain fell two places to 12th.

Russia is at No. 23 � its highest position since early 2003.

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Posted by Rockabye on Nov-23-2006 18:49:

who cares about this rankings?

Posted by zoric on Nov-23-2006 18:49:

I've said it before, and I'm saying it again:

Fuck those rankings.

Posted by Cloud on Nov-23-2006 18:59:

FUCK YEAH!

Posted by The_G0dfather on Nov-23-2006 19:59:

like the US were ever really the fifth best country...

Posted by RapidFire on Nov-23-2006 20:06:

I blame bush

Posted by noikeee on Nov-23-2006 21:26:

you might not care about it, but they're more accurate than ever.

Posted by The_G0dfather on Nov-23-2006 22:44:

we've had this discussion before, its a rediculous listing

Posted by King Ecnal on Nov-23-2006 23:28:

unreal... a national team with SUPERSTARS like Eddie Johnson, Brian Ching.... oh wait....

31 you say?

Isn't that still being a tad genorous?

We need Brasilians to start having babies over here then screwing back over to Brazil... then when their kids can't make the Brasilian team.... they can play for Team USA...

yeah I figured it all out... thats all we really need...

Posted by Ariyas on Nov-23-2006 23:49:

US Will win Next world Cup !

Posted by Yohan on Nov-23-2006 23:54:

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Originally posted by Ariyas
US Will win Next world Cup !

I want some of whatever he's been smoking

Posted by Kapedano on Nov-24-2006 01:02:

US drops from top 30, and Iran droped completely.

Posted by The_G0dfather on Nov-24-2006 01:06:

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Originally posted by EvilTree
I want some of whatever he's been smoking

lol me too, would so some good

Posted by Dj Alex (ISR) on Nov-24-2006 07:49:

blame canada..

Posted by sensorium on Nov-24-2006 07:58:

Re: U.S drop from Top 30 in FIFA World Rankings

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Originally posted by Saka
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Well don't act so surprised. Think here for a sec. Back in May the US team lost to Morocco. Let's face it, if you lose to Morocco you might as well retire your team from national competition. They didn't. Also, the performance at the World Cup was embarrassing. Two loses, one with the great squad of Ghana, and a draw with a team full of male models. And to believe Bush was told the US had a good team. How wrong his futbol advisers were.

Now, how many matches have they played after the WC?

Posted by K.I.K.E. on Nov-24-2006 13:08:

Fifa Rankings, oh la la . But the US aren't good at all, no ranks needed to know that.

Posted by verndogs on Nov-24-2006 16:04:

what's the point of this poll anyway?

Posted by The_G0dfather on Nov-24-2006 16:05:

poll ?

Posted by verndogs on Nov-24-2006 16:41:

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Originally posted by The_G0dfather
poll ?

rankings I mean

sorry...my brain has been friend from working on my holiday break

Posted by Yohan on Nov-24-2006 16:53:

Re: Re: U.S drop from Top 30 in FIFA World Rankings

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Originally posted by sensorium
Well don't act so surprised. Think here for a sec. Back in May the US team lost to Morocco. Let's face it, if you lose to Morocco you might as well retire your team from national competition. They didn't. Also, the performance at the World Cup was embarrassing. Two loses, one with the great squad of Ghana, and a draw with a team full of male models. And to believe Bush was told the US had a good team. How wrong his futbol advisers were.

Now, how many matches have they played after the WC?

Course, we can refute that statement by saying how many teams lost to Latvia on their road to Euro 2004?

And why should friendlies be weighed in terms of rankings?

Posted by noikeee on Nov-24-2006 22:08:

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Originally posted by EvilTree
Course, we can refute that statement by saying how many teams lost to Latvia on their road to Euro 2004?

And why should friendlies be weighed in terms of rankings?

Because most national teams play very few games in a season, and some might not even have a single official game in 2 consecutive seasons (if they're the holders of the forthcoming european or world cup). A ranking can't be representative if given a very small amount of data.

It might be fair criticism to say official games could have more weight against the friendlies in the ranking, though.