Latest FIFA Rankings
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. You are expected to take at face value that the United States is the fifth best team in the world despite the fact it might be the fourth best team in its World Cup group. You are asked to buy into the belief that Serbia and Montenegro is worse than 45 other teams in the world, while also accepting the notion that Iran is one of the top twenty teams. You are expected to know that Germany is merely that 22nd best team in the world (ok, this one might be right). All of these notions will, of course, be put to test this summer, but for now go ahead and have a look at where the 32 World Cup teams supposedly place in the world’s pecking order.
1 Brazil
2 Czech Republic
3 Netherlands
4 Argentina
5 USA
6 Spain
7 Mexico
8 France
9 England
10 Portugal
12 Italy
16 Sweden
18 Japan
19 Iran
19 Croatia
22 Germany
24 Tunisia
25 Costa Rica
26 Poland
31 Korea Republic
32 Côte d’Ivoire
33 Paraguay
34 Saudi Arabia
35 Switzerland
38 Ecuador
42 Ukraine
44 Australia
46 Serbia and Montenegro
49 Trinidad and Tobago
50 Ghana
58 Togo
60 Angola
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By Angola the Worst Team in the World Cup? - FIFA World Cup 2006 - Angola World Cup Team Blog | March 15th, 2006 at 12:11 pm 
[...] 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 the World Cup. I have one word to describe this: RUBBISH! [...]
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By World Cup Results Based on FIFA Rankings - FIFA World Cup 2006 - World Cup 2006 Blog | March 15th, 2006 at 7:10 pm [...] 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 form, the ranking system is certainly an imperfect specimen. Nevertheless, it does give us some idea of how teams are relative to one another. Using the latest rankings, I decided to play out the World Cup under the scenario that the higest ranked teams will always advance to the next round. You might be a bit surprised by some of the teams that are tapped to come out of group play and how early some of the favorites would bow out of the tournament if it were based on ranking alone. If you look at it this way, you can really see that Groups A, G and H are weak. [...]
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By Jumbie, Jumbieno? - FIFA World Cup 2006 - Trinidad and Tobago World Cup Team Blog | March 16th, 2006 at 8:24 pm [...] There are many who question the logic of FIFA’s ranking system. Still more are appalled by the way the governing agency has handled ticket distribution. [...]
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By nishant | July 10th, 2006 at 6:29 pm plz take this as my love frm nishant and do send me the latest fifa ranking after the 2006 world cup on nishant811@hotmail.com
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By dre145 | July 12th, 2006 at 5:42 pm Rank Team Pts:
Jul 06 +/-Rank
May 06 +/-Pts:
May 06
1 Brazil 1630 0 803
2 Italy 1550 11 822
3 Argentina 1472 6 726
4 France 1462 4 713
5 England 1434 5 693
6 Netherlands 1322 -3 554
7 Spain 1309 -2 553
8 Portugal 1301 -1 551
9 Germany 1229 10 533
10 Czech Republic 1223 -8 451
11 Nigeria 1149 0 413
12 Cameroon 1109 3 387
13 Switzerland 1028 22 380
14 Uruguay 985 8 296
15 UKRAINE 961 30 352
16 USA 933 -11 177
17 Denmark 927 -6 191
18 Mexico 924 -14 166
19 Paraguay 915 14 262
20 CГґte d’Ivoire 909 12 240
34 Russia
These are the new rankings for july 06 after the world cup.
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