February 2007 FIFA World Rankings

croatia is #1 they best italy

2-0!!!!!!!!!

Woah, Nigeria and Egypt got ejected out of the top 30.

Only one other certainty, Bob. EN and HL will be ranked higher then PT after consecutive spankings!

Has anyone actually ever calculated these to see if FIFA’s calculations work? Or better, is there any site that shows FIFA’s actual ‘worksheets’ – we should start a petition site…

I still don’t understand how (and I am bias – i’ll fully admit it) they shrink the historical period to 4 yrs and with PT beating ENG and HOL twice each in the two top tournaments, Euro & WC, how they can be ahead of PT.

Someone help me understand…

Bob, I think you should start supporting Timor Loro Sae, rather than American Samoa… They’re both (Samoa and East Timor) ranked #199 but East Timor means something to us portuguese… TO RESIST IS TO WIN!!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xanana_Gusm%C3%A3o

This is from 2002…:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/1997437.stm

BTW, just to anoy the brazillians a bit, I guess if they hadn’t lose against PT, they’d still be #1, as they’ve been for the last 55 months… ;-)

About PT vs HOL and ENG, maybe if we lose we get higher rankings… ;-) Maybe if we blame the other team’s players for poor fair-play while we stamp on the balls of one of them OR maybe if we start a game with our shoes held high and then tell the world “they” did it (mammy, they’re the bad guys cos we kicked them but they didn’t fall, they rather cried, scored and won, so you see, that’s a terrible thing to do, mammy), maybe that would help… ;-)

BTW Caldas, you’re forgetting something all dutch have still very present in their minds… They failled WC 2002 because PT outqualified them… One draw and one victory… After being 2-0 down most of the time, I think, we (PT) scored a great goal and then scored the 2nd, which kinda finally put the nail in the coffin for them – they’re waiting since 1991 to beat us… ;-) But hey, PT is also waiting for a long time to beat France, in a juicy semi-final… ;-)

Pedro – When we get the new blog system in place I will set up a Timor blog just for you.

Darn I was hoping the US would move up more (actually maybe it’s better that we don’t, our “Top 5″ Ranking didn’t help last summer).

OK Bob, you get one for American Samoa, I get one for E Timor… Right now things aren’t looking good for them, actually… Now we just have to find somebody for Belize, Djibouti, S. Tome, Aruba, US Virgin Islands, Montserrat and Guam… ;-)

Finally FIFA has got it right.

I have had Italy as No. 1 Ranked for over 6 years now.

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How does Nigeria fall from number 9 to 36 after losing to Ghana? How is the Ukraine ranked 11? Why is England still in the top ten?

Hey TSN,

Croatia beat an Italian B team in a friendly, that’s hardly something to brag about. In order to make the top ten Croatia have to forget about 98 and focus on getting out of the first round in major tourneys. I mean you guys beat Italy, Argentina, Germany and England but you can’t beat Japan, Equador and Australia????

The only thing that is constant is change … for a while Brazil put that fact of life in doubt.

acest sait este minunat este fantastic casesti tot ce ai nevoie nu trebuie sa stai pe 1000 de saituri ,pe acesta intri doar printo simpla apasare (*)

1. brazil
2.argentina
3.spain
4.portugal
5.nigeria
6.cameroon
7.czech republic
8.netherlands
9.ukraine
10.switzerland

If you seen the game,between
Holland,and portugalThe best doesn,t always win, get it.