Port 21 November @ 10:43 AM EST
Portugal have moved up to #5 in the FIFA World Rankings released yesterday and with this ranking
and previous point system, they should be one of the top seeds when the top seed rankings are
released and draw completed next month in South Africa.The top countrys will go into pot one and
more importantly not seeded together in the first round.
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Spain regain top slot in this month's Fifa world rankings. Brazil are second followed by the
Netherlands, Italy and Portugal. England are in 9th place. Argentina are 8th.
France are in 7th after Thierry Henry handed them victory in their World Cup play off encounter
with Ireland in Paris. Cameroon are the highest African team in 11th.
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A brand-new feature from the worldwide leader.
Some new power rankings to rival the FIFA world rankings.
Go take a look.
I'm really not too impressed, but here's to more soccer coverage, right?
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UEFA 2010 World Cup Qualifying Play-Off Draw Released - Monday, October 19, 2009-1.052009-10-19
14:19:42Jonathon Feyerherm
The UEFA (Europe) region has released the draw for the top 8 second place finishers in the group
stage. There will be four teams advancing as the matches will be a home and away.
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The Republic of Ireland will have to beat former World Cup winners France over two legs if they
are to make it to the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. Giovanni Trapattoni's side will contest the
tough play-offs ties against the 1998 champions on 14 and 18 November.
Elsewhere, Portugal will play Bosnia-Herzegovina, Greece face Ukraine and Russia meet
Slovenia.
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Port 16 October @ 05:54 PM EST
Portugal will be seeded second for Monday's draw in what will determine the European zones last
four spots in the 2010 World Cup.Portugal now sit 10th in the FIFA World Rankings. The seeding for
Mondays draw is:1- France2- Portugal3- Russia4- Greece5- Ukraine6- Ireland7- Bosnia-Herzegovina8-
SloveniaThese seedings will keep the top four teams away from each other in the knockout stage, so
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The FIFA World Rankings were released today with little change in the top ten. The one exception
is Russia dropping several spots, and Portugal moving into the top 10. The top 2 remain unchanged
with Brazil on top and Spain close behind. The rest of the top ten is the Netherlands, Italy,
Germany, Argentina, England, Croatia, France, and Portugal.
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Brazil stay at the top of this month's Fifa world rankings. Brazil are followed by Spain, the
Netherlands, Italy and Germany. England stay in 7th place. Argentina are 6th.
France are in 9th. Cameroon are the highest African team in 14th. Russia are 12th, with the USA in
11th.
1 Brazil
2 Spain
3 Netherlands
4 Italy
5 Germany
6 Argentina
7 England
8 Croatia
9 France
10 Portugal
11 USA
12 Russia
13 Switzerland
14 Cameroon
15 Czech Republic
16 Greece Denmark
17 Chile
18 Mexico
19 Côte d'Ivoire
20 Serbia
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SoccerLens 16 October @ 03:33 AM EST
FIFA's official ranking system for nations was officially introduced in 1992.
Initially it was a rather simplistic system, in which a win gave a team 3 points whilst a draw gave
the team 1 point. This created a number of problems, based mainly around the fact that it didn't
take into account that some countries continually played weaker nations and as a result would
constantly rank higher than more accomplished sides.
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WorldCupBlog 15 October @ 07:10 AM EST
Bit of controversy in European World Cup qualifying, with the powers that be pulling what looks
like a commercially motivated bait and switch with the playoffs.
Here's what's happened: The nine European group winners all qualify automatically. So that's
Denmark, Switzerland, Slovakia, Germany, Spain, England, Serbia, Italy, Netherlands all going to
South Africa.
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With the 2010 World Cup berth already secured, the U.S. national team will head into its final
qualifier on Wednesday playing for a chance to top the CONCACAF qualifying group, and a chance to
improve its place in the FIFA world rankings (as well as score a measure of revenge for the 3-1
thumping delivered by Costa Rica in June).
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With the 2010 World Cup berth already secured, the U.S. national team will head into its final
qualifier on Wednesday playing for a chance to top the CONCACAF qualifying group, and a chance to
improve its place in the FIFA world rankings (as well as score a measure of revenge for the 3-1
thumping delivered by Costa Rica in June).
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What happens when Sepp Blatter and his cronies see millions of dollars and plenty of prestige in
danger of disappearing? They change the system.
That's the conclusion drawn by many after FIFA last night announced they were altering their
planned World Cup 2010 qualification play-offs system to seed teams based on their FIFA world
rankings, a decision which clearly favours the traditionally strong nations.
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The FIFA world rankings are something every football fan checks out once in a while,
but sometimes they do leave you with a question, of how they're actually calculated. When India's
latest rankings were announced, many Goal.com readers requested us to explain just how these
rankings work.
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The latest FIFA World Rankings were released on Wednesday September 2, 2009 with not many
changes. Brazil remains on top but Spain has closed the gap to less than 20 points. The rest of the
top ten remains about the same with Italy moving up one spot to be tied with Germany for 4th and
France slipped to 10th while Croatia moved up one to 9th.
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While the rankings don't really mean all that much, it's nice to see the USA near the top of the
FIFA World Rankings, isn't it? Victories in our two matches this weekend would help that climb
continue, especially if France or Croatia falter in upcoming UEFA WC Qualifiers. See the full list
at FIFA.com.
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The United States moved up a slot to 11th in the FIFA World Rankings. Over the rankings period the
US lost their only game, 2-1 away to Mexico. They earned no rankings points in August. The next
rankings are scheduled for Oct 7th. The United States has two games during this rankings period,
World Cup Qualifiers at home against El Salvador and away to Trinidad & Tobago.
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Brazil stay at the top of this month's Fifa world rankings after winning the Confederations Cup in
South Africa. Brazil are followed by Spain and the Netherlands England stay in 7th place. Italy and
Germany swap places.
France are in 10th. Côte d'Ivoire are the highest African team in 20th.
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LuÃs Fabiano scores against Estonia
Brazil made hard work of a testy match against Estonia in Tallinn. In the end, a late first-half
goal by LuÃs Fabiano was all that separated Brazil from a country 112th in the FIFA world
rankings.
Despite being a meaningless ‘friendly', the confrontation was littered with bad tackles by
both sides.
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The latest FIFA World Rankings were released on Wednesday August 5, 2009 as there was little
change in the top 20. Brazil remains on top followed by Spain, Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Russia,
England, Argentina, France, and Croatia rounding out the top 10. The United States remains at
number 12 while Paraguay was able to move up to 2 spots to 20.
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Brazil stay at the top of this month's Fifa world rankings after winning the Confederations Cup in
South Africa. Brazil are followed by Spain and the Netherlands England stay in 7th place. Germany
and Italy swap places.
France are in 9th. Côte d'Ivoire are the highest African team in 18th.
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Brazil go back to the top of this month's Fifa world rankings after winning the Confederations Cup
in South Africa. Brazil are followed by Spain and the Netherlands England are down one in 7th
place.
France are in 9th. Côte d'Ivoire are the highest African team in 18th. Russia are 6th, with the
USA in 12th.
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The latest FIFA World Rankings are out and Brazil has overtaken Spain for the top spot with
their win in the 2009 Confederations Cup. The United States saw their ranking improve with a strong
performance to reach the finals but the biggest mover into the top 20 were Australia (moved up 13
spots) and the Ivory Coast (moved up 20 spots).
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A little different than the FIFA world rankings, a couple teams swapped spots.
Some hotshot team is No. 1 and some other fell down to No. 14.
And Spain has some weird regional group too.
Hmmmmm, interesting.
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And this week's biggest climber, up 13 places... Tut, tut, tut. Internet football hooligans. Once
decent win and they go around wrecking the joint! USA fans wasted no time in adjusting the
Wikipedia page for the FIFA World Rankings to reflect their 2-0 Confederations Cup semi-final
victory over Spain.
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Spain defeats Iraq 1-0 on David Villa's 2nd half goal - Video Highlights
Spain struggled to get any offensive against an Iraqi side that played very defensively. Unlike
Sunday's match against New Zealand, the score remained 0-0 heading into halftime. It looked like
Iraq might be able to hold the reigning European Champions scoreless but David Villa's goal off a
header in the 55th minute was the gamewinner.
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SoccerLens 14 June @ 06:41 AM EST
Spain v New Zealand (Group A)
Date: Sunday 14 June
Venue: Rustenburg
Kickoff: 7:30pm BST
European champions Spain start their 2009 Confederations Cup campaign this Sunday in the mining
town of Rustenburg against New Zealand. You can watch Spain v New Zealand live here.
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SoccerLens 14 June @ 06:32 AM EST
South Africa v Iraq (Group A)
Date: Sunday 14 June
Venue: Johannesburg
Kickoff: 3pm BST
The first match of the 2009 Confederations Cup sees hosts South Africa take on AFC Asian Cup
champions Iraq in Johannesburg. You can watch South Africa v Iraq live here.
South Africa
Iraq qualified for this tournament by virtue of their 2007 AFC Asian Cup triumph.
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Spotted in the AP preview of tonight's Sounders-Chivas USA match:
The US is playing Honduras, not Hungary, obviously, but hey as long as it's not Costa Rica,
right?
Related posts:
- The FIFA World Rankings: A Global Return to Reason
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A nice weekend for footie addicts who have been missing out on some top class action since the FA
Cup Final... World Cup Qualifying takes center stage this weekend.
We have Brazil traveling to Montevideo (hands down one of my favorite words to both pronounce and
type), where they have not won in 33 years.
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The latest FIFA World Rankings were released today with little change in the top ten as Spain
remains on top by a fairly comfortable margin. The Netherlands moved up to 2nd, Italy up to 4th,
and England is now at 6th. Outside the top 10, the United States moved up a spot to 14th and will
have plenty of chances to move up with a busy June and July schedule.
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The new FIFA World Rankings are out, and the U.S. MNT has jumped up one spot to 14th in the World.
After last month's lack of movement in the top 10, this month shows a bit of shuffling. Netherlands
flip flops with Germany in the second spot, while Italy and Brazil (two oppoents for the U.S. in
the Confederations Cup also switch places).
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Spain stay atop of this month's Fifa world rankings followed by the Netherlands and Germany, who
change places. England are up in 6th place.
France are in 10th. Cameroon are the highest African team in 21st. Russia are 9th, with the USA in
14th.
1 Spain
2 Germany
3 Netherlands
4 Italy
5 Brazil
6 England
7 Argentina
8 Croatia
9 Russia
10 France
11 Portugal
12 Turkey
13 Paraguay
14 USA
15 Czech Republic
16 Switzerland
17 Greece
17 Uruguay
19 Ukraine
20 Serbia
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The national team may never sit atop the FIFA world rankings, while most European fans remain
blissfully ignorant of the colourful crowds that pack into grounds to witness one of the most
evenly contested leagues in the world. But there's no denying that Japanese football is unique.
The J.
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