The new FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking has been announced by FIFA. They have also introduced a new Ranking System. One of the Major difference from before is that now only matches in the last 4 years will be taken into account, and not the last 8 years.
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| As for the other means by which the ranking was traditionally decided (result, importance of match, strength of opponents, regional strength, number of matches considered), these have been tested, re-analysed and, in some cases, completely revised. Indeed, two of the factors previously used - goals scored and home advantage - have been removed from the reckoning process altogether. |
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| Since its introduction in August 1993, the FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking has become a regular part of international sports reports and an important indicator for FIFA's 207 member associations to find out where their respective teams stand in world football and how they are progressing. |
Changes in Top Ten:
Brazil Still Tops The World
Italy jumped 11 places to 2nd place
Argentina jumped 6 places to 3rd place
France jumped 11 places to 4th place
England jumped 5 places to 5th place
Netherlands dropped 3 places to 6th place
Spain dropped 2 places to 7th place
Portugal dropped 1 places to 8th place
Germany jumped 10 places to 9th place
Czech Republic dropped 8 places to 10th place (They were 2nd place before world cup)
Big movers:
Ukraine jumped 30 places to 15th place
Ghana jumped 23 places to 25th place
Switzerland jumped 22 places to 13th place
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| Not all of the FIFA World Cup participants fared so well, however, and for every rapid rise, there was a drop every bit as dramatic. |
Saudi Arabia dropped 47 places to 81st place
Japan dropped 31 places to 49th place
Iran dropped 24 places to 47th place
Korea Republic dropped 27 places to 56th place (2002 semi-finalists, now off the Top 50)
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| Equatorial Guinea, who climbed 59 places into 95th position, Canada, who moved to within four places of the top 50 with a 29-place jump, and Guinea, who are now one spot ahead of Ghana, having leaped from 51st to 24th position in this much-changed ranking table |
In another news of note, FIFA has opened disciplinary proceedings against Marco Materazzi regarding his part played in the now famous head-but insident in the final match.
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| The FIFA Disciplinary Committee has today (Thursday, 13 July 2006) opened disciplinary proceedings against Italian player Marco Materazzi. The proceedings were initiated in the light of initial statements from French player Zinedine Zidane who, having head-butted Materazzi during the final of the 2006 FIFA World Cup™ in Berlin on 9 July, has since indicated in an interview that his actions came in response to repeated provocation from the Italian player. |
There is one thing I cannot understand:
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| The only disappointment for the Azzurri as they look ahead to UEFA EURO 2008 - and, perhaps, to snatching top spot from the Brazilians - is that they will do so without Lippi himself, who resigned in the wake of the Final, claiming that: "I have achieved what I set out to achieve." |
If European teams can improve their ranking during this tournament, isn't it unfair on countries such as Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay etc who are not eligible to play in it?
Sources:
FIFA.com - Italy leap to second place
FIFA.com - Major movement follows Germany 2006
FIFA.com - Revised FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking
FIFA.com - disciplinary proceedings...
FIFA.com - FIFA Rankings Table
FIFA.com - New FIFA Rankings FAQ Sometimes, I wonder what's the real use of staying top without the World Cup. So, the ranking is really not about who gets the Cup but rather Consistency of the team in the past four years. I would prefer to win the trophy in each competition but not stay on top in the FIFA ranking. 
Brazil doesn't deserve the first place. What used to be a dream team now is a nightmare. I'm brazilian, and what the brazilian time did on World Cup was a shame. We saw good teams, playing with their hearts, but not Brazil.
I think a lot of Brazilian would feel the same way. Which I think is very unfair on the team. If they win, they are the Brazillian Champions. If they don't win, they are not playing with heart and commitment, a nightmare...
ROnaldo get's the same treatment from the Real Madrid fans. One day he doesn't score and he is fat and unfit and useless...next weekened he scores two goals and he's the best in the world, perfect weight for his height and a master marksmen.
Brazil didn't play well this year, that is true. But let's face it, no team in the world has gone on a winning streak in the World Cup in recent history. And no team can boast of a better record than Brazil in history.
Brazil should improve their play for the next turn around. But this failure does not mean they are not a good team.
And I think rating a team on consistency is better than rating on the performance of a single tournament.
Well. At least they have the United States back where it belongs.
I'm from the U.S. and even I thought that 4-6 was really pushing it.
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There is one thing I cannot understand:
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The only disappointment for the Azzurri as they look ahead to UEFA EURO 2008 - and, perhaps, to snatching top spot from the Brazilians - is that they will do so without Lippi himself, who resigned in the wake of the Final, claiming that: "I have achieved what I set out to achieve."
If European teams can improve their ranking during this tournament, isn't it unfair on countries such as Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay etc who are not eligible to play in it? |
EURO 2008 is an example of a continental championship. South America has it's own continental championship, Copa America, so the teams you mentioned would get credit for winning games in that tournament. In fact, that's how the US and Mexico got so high in the rankings. They have a continental championship (the CONCACAF Gold Cup) every two years so they got double credit for competing in those tournaments and racked up a bunch of points. I had heard of Copa America before. I did not know they got FIFA points in that competition. I thought the Confederation Cup was the only other tournament that gave FIFA points and in that one there are teams from both Europe and Americas. Brazil won the kast Confederations Cup I think.
Gues they lost the magic touch in the two years since then...
<sigh> Next time..next time...
You get FIFA points for any international competition. Even friendlies. The only difference is how much the matches are weighted. World Cup matches are naturally the highest weighted. I don't know for sure but I'm guessing continental competitions are the second highest weighted. Confederations is probably a little lower than that.
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| Brazil doesn't deserve the first place. What used to be a dream team now is a nightmare. I'm brazilian, and what the brazilian time did on World Cup was a shame. We saw good teams, playing with their hearts, but not Brazil. |
Untrue. I'm Brazilian too, and Brazil INDEED DESERVES to stay on top. I still have the conviction that Brazil is the leader, and we cannot hold responsability for the damn Nike sponsors that determine everything in your team, in affiliation with FIFA. I wish Brazil had no private sponsors at all, the money would come from the taxes we pay, EVEN if there are corruption perspectives, then, the ordinary giant nikes would not have any influence on our team.
First of all, they must override us before saying Brazil is no longer the best.WEll look... All know's that Brazil didn't play good football at the World Cup but I think that they are still have the best players in the world....
and they didn't succes cos they didn't glued.
They indeed have the best players, man... this is cultural and currently not denyable. However most of the TOP players are CELEBRITY players, that want, selfishly, to be a lone star in the team, after all this is more about $$$ than any other thing. I think that we should have lost to Ghana, they deserved more than France to beat us. A player must not only play well, he must WANT to play. Or HAVE THE FREEDOM to play.
If your new system puts the recently crowned world champions anywhere other than first place, your system is broken as all hell.
I really can't understand how Da Rossa is blaming Nike for Brazil's bad performance....Can someone enlighten me 
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| I really can't understand how Da Rossa is blaming Nike for Brazil's bad performance....Can someone enlighten me |
Man, if you don't know, it is Nike who rules our team. It is the "megasponsor", so they decide the 11 of the 23 players that are gonna be in the field. The CBF (Brazilian Football Confederation), led by a man named Ricardo Teixeira, is actually led by Nike on the background. The intention was to convoke "superstars" for the match, Ronaldo and Cafu for example, that showed to be clearly out of fit and age. Then compare with the match Brazil x Japan. That was the best game, and that was the team with most secondary players of all. They wanted to play, they had a reason to. But Ronaldo and Cafu were to faded, they've won cups before, they were not willing to it.Brazil will always be the best world team, because of its players and the type of game they have.
They play soccer as a game for fun, not as other teams that justa try to win even if they don't show a good game.
Even with the act of Brazil in this last World Cup in Germany, Brazil keeps beeing the best soccer team for me, and for many people in all the world.
I am Mexican but I will always like Brazil to win!
Brazil the team of my dreams! How much I would want to play some day in that team. I now a days I play with rayados of monterrey and that's so cool; now imagine with Brazil!
BRAZIL ALWAYS THE BEST!
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Brazil will always be the best world team, because of its players and the type of game they have.
They play soccer as a game for fun, not as other teams that justa try to win even if they don't show a good game.
Even with the act of Brazil in this last World Cup in Germany, Brazil keeps beeing the best soccer team for me, and for many people in all the world.
I am Mexican but I will always like Brazil to win!
Brazil the team of my dreams! How much I would want to play some day in that team. I now a days I play with rayados of monterrey and that's so cool; now imagine with Brazil!
BRAZIL ALWAYS THE BEST! |
I feel thankful for reading this!!
Yeah, Brazil is the top, yet.
Lets just pray for the next Cup, and sc**w you Nike!!! 
barasil = ownage brasil desurb the top !!!! cource they own
Nice posts here...
Brazil is the best team of the 20th century. Lets wait and see if they can maintian that throughout the 21st century. So far, they suffer from the fact that they have too many star-players in their team. Each one of them is fighting with his own ego and the expectations are too high. Quality is there, but big starts almost always have big problems...
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Finally England have gone up the ranks! Thanks to guys like Terry, Lampard and Gerrard. I believe England has one of the best youth systems you can ever get at world cup level.
Brazil deserves first ranking the world as they got so many tactiful players like Ronaldinho, Kaka, Cichino, Robinho, Carlos, Adriano etc..
They are the most beautiful team to watch.
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Brazil deserves first ranking the world as they got so many tactiful players like Ronaldinho, Kaka, Cichino, Robinho, Carlos, Adriano etc..
They are the most beautiful team to watch. |
Indeed. I hope the team will not have third-party interventions in 2010. Then you can see a brillant football.Brazil beat Argentina 3 - 0 yesterday in a Friendly played in the new Arsenal Stadium in England.
This is, I think, the first win for their new coach Dunga. He captained the 1994 Brazil team.
Looks like they are on a revival. Looking forward to see great things from the team.
Until they win the world cup again, they are #2 at best. Italy is number one.
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| Until they win the world cup again, they are #2 at best. Italy is number one. |
Italy? Sorry. The "Esquadra Azurra" will have to climb more in life to reach Brazil. One loss by 1x0 for us is not an indication that we have been surpassed by Italy. This besides Brazil still being #1 in Fifa ranking.... with everything from Brazilian soccer babes to beautiful football fans in the stands and a whole lot more!
