December 2006 FIFA Rankings
Another month, another set of FIFA rankings and another series of laughs. As has been the custom for the past five years, Brazil is once again the top ranked team in the world and gets the honor of being named team of the year even though they didn’t win the World Cup. Minor details.
“Brazil’s four victories in Germany and highly consistent performances in friendly matches, irrespective of their opponents and the venue, were still more than the most promising chasing teams had to offer,” FIFA said in a statement.
At the other end of the spectrum, American Samoa still is the worst team in the world and still would likely be beaten by us if we cobbled together 11 World Cup Blog readers and formed a team.
Just for shits and giggles, I thought it would be fun to compare the current top 10 with the top 10 from exactly a year ago before that little thing called the World Cup was even played and when everyone knew that the United States, Mexico and Czech Republic were much stronger than 12th ranked Italy.
December 2006
1 Brazil
2 Italy
3 Argentina
4 France
5 England
6 Germany
7 Netherlands
8 Portugal
9 Nigeria
10 Czech Republic
December 2005
1 Brazil
2 Czech Republic
3 Netherlands
4 Argentina
5 Mexico
5 Spain
5 France
8 USA
9 England
10 Portugal
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fab
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paul
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http://france.theoffside.com sam
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fab
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paul
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Martinez
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javi
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Martinez
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FORZA ITALIA
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Chuck
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Martinez
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javi
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Martinez
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http://josoatlasaol.com johnny
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john
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go football
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co

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