Latest Rankings: Brazil’s Good, Ghana Moves and Turkey’s a Turkey

December 19th, 2005 | by: WC Bob | Comments Off

Brazil has won FIFA’s Team of the Year for the fourth straight year and tenth time overall leaving one only to wonder when they will officially start calling it FIFA’s Brazil of the Year award.

Ghana gets a taste of glory by being recognized as the team to move up the most in FIFA’s ranking system. The Black Stars were undefeated in 14 games and are now ranked 50th in the world. They will be honored with the James Brown award for being the Best Mover of the Year.

Turkey, which played like…well…a turkey during qualifying, gains the distinction of being the highest ranked team not to make it to Germany.

Here’s the top 20.