New FIFA Rankings are out

[Adam West]

http://www.fifa.com/worldfootball/ra...llranking.html

Nice to see Uruguay get their due by moving up to #6. I still think Argentina is overrated at #5 and Italy at #11 but at least France dropped to #21 (and I still think that's giving them too much credit).

One could argue about 6-16 or so but in reality 1-4 are ranked accurately (although I would still put Germany at #3, Brazil #4, Uruguay #5) and then you enter the 2nd tier teams. Mexico is better than a #24 spot but I guess their World Cup performance caused the drop.

[clemso]

What? How does Egypt make the 9th best in the World?????

[Zemo]

What? How does Egypt make the 9th best in the World?????

That's just what I thought.

[Meule]

Belgium's up 11 places, YAY
Still only 48th place tho

[Hector]

Egypt...lol...what a joke...

[toys2cool]

Egypt...lol...what a joke...

lol

[MegoAddict]

yay Chile made 10th..Darn proud!!

[wolfie]

Egypt are a really good team, it was a major shock that they did not qualify for the world cup.

Not too sure how England moved up a place unless it was because Portugal fell so much.

[Hector]

Sorry...but "mighty" Egypt couldn't even qualify in Africa...shock or no shock...it's a total joke they are ranked that high...and then don't even have a grand history either (only two WC appearances and NO victories). Who have they really beat in the past that's worthy outside Africa? Any top 20 teams? Come on...that's lame. Heck...just last year...the USA destroyed them 3-0 (in Egypt).

To have Egypt ranked that high is disrespecting superior teams that were in the World Cup...totally insulting and abysmal...no ifs or buts about it.

[Adam West]

That's all part of the politics of soccer or futbal. It is the one and only sport that is played across the world.

I know there is a Rugby World Cup and can tell you for sure that at least in Maryland....nobody in numbers plays Rugby.

If there were a football World Cup (which is really a combination of Rugby and soccer) no country would beat the U.S. We are 50+ years ahead of anyone and if anyone wants to aruge the point....put an all star NFL team against any country in the world and you will get a big ole arse whippin'. Canada might even rank 2nd in the world since there is a CFL. I know Canada kicks rear ends in Hockey, Curling, and maybe some ice skating events. The CFL has definetly produced some stars but place an NFL all star team against a CFL all star team......

The only reason we lose basketball olympic games is due to selfish all star players who do not know how to play as a team. I agree that Egypt is ranked high considering they didn't even qualify for the WC but I suspec that there are politics involved. Why should England be ranked so much higher than the U.S.? The U.S. came out of the braket as the #1 seed and although they lost to Ghana 2-1 in overtime.....England lost to Germany

[Adam West]

4-1...but really 4-2 since the goal was real but there is nothing about England that says they are better than the U.S. by multiple spots. One could argue that England would have received an adrenaline rush on a 2-2 tie but Germany is a better team. Actually, I am impressed that countries like Slovenia or Belgium are ranked pretty high given their population. Of course, they made sure to let everyone know that the U.S. was the most populous country participating in the WC but made no mention that China, Russia, or India wasn't even there. We always get scoffed at international competitons like the Olympics or World Cup....funny that we get laughed at the Winter Olympics even though we won more medals than any other country but the Summer Olympics where we excel barely is mentioned.....

[Meule]

England is ranked higher than the US because of previous results
Don't know what Egypt is doing all the way up there tho, they've never done anything worthwile.

[Hector]

Of course, they made sure to let everyone know that the U.S. was the most populous country participating in the WC but made no mention that China, Russia, or India wasn't even there.

Russia now has half the population of the USA...it's not the U.S.S.R. anymore...

Google - public data

[Hector]

England is ranked higher than the US because of previous results
Don't know what Egypt is doing all the way up there tho, they've never done anything worthwile.

Exactly.

[LadyZod]

I can't make heads or tails out of the Egypt ranking.

Brazil and Argentina being ranked over Uruguay I can understand, between previous standings and previous showing, heck even by the amounts of goals scored...

Uruguay shot up 10 points due to their showing, and I'm sure Forlan's winning of the golden ball helped quite a bit.

Brazil dropping 2, makes sense due to their previous ranking, and the spanking they got not even making into the last 4.

I don't understand why Argentina shot up 2, since they didn't really do any better than Brazil.

Germany coming in at 3rd at the cup, and winning the golden boot and best young player should have nabbed them 3rd in rankings. They have a history too, so to claim Brazil has history on their side to justify their ranking is bunk.

Why is Greece ranked higher than the US?

England, due to past history, I can accept.

Egypt confuses me. It both confuses and angers me. Maybe they wanted to rank a team from the African continent? If so...how about Ghana? If not for penalty kicks, they would have found themselves in the final four.


Anyone know how the point system in FIFA is calculated?

Team Pts
Egypt10533
Ghana8749
Côte d'Ivoire
Nigeria773
Algeria759