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This Is Getting Embarrassing…

April 20th, 2006 | By: Daryl | 13 Comments »

Q: What does a 4-1 defeat to Germany and a 1-1 draw at home to Jamaica’s youth team do to your FIFA world ranking?

A: You move up a place, obviously.

That’s right folks, according to our friends at FIFA, USA are now the 4th best team in the world.

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By kapcro | April 20th, 2006 at 5:01 am

Your title sums it up there, Daryl. If the United States wins a game we’ll be in second place in the ranking, possibly one and a half place a whole new ranking position. Of course we can’t supercede the Brazilians they have that musical ability thing going where they play music to stay loose before games. There’s a bit of commentary on this over at the Portugese site that quite tickles the funnybone.

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By Pete | April 20th, 2006 at 9:10 am

Let me try another word – ridiculous. I wish we would have dropped off, to put expectations more in line with our chances. We are now ranked above such lowly sides as England, Argentina, Spain, Germany, and France.

This makes it easy for our uneducated soccer press to decry a flop if we lose a WC match.

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By kapcro | April 20th, 2006 at 9:16 am

My son and I discussed the expectations aspect and the tragedy is that for someone new to soccer or uninformed about the true potential of the US squad watches and sees a possible bounce out quick and becomes disenchanted. Not a positive for the game in the US.

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By Knut Karnapp | April 22nd, 2006 at 1:57 pm

Sorry but this ranking is a joke.

By Zero | April 22nd, 2006 at 4:11 pm

Well, Italy was 12th last time, then Italy beated Germany 4-1 and now it’s 14th

The TRUE Fifa Ranking is the World cup

By Bidemi | April 23rd, 2006 at 10:49 am

Well said, Zero.

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By fernie | April 24th, 2006 at 1:41 am

LOL WTF ? …….makes no sense and it does not sound fair either

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By bill wedge | April 27th, 2006 at 6:47 am

World cup 2006,there is know better time for the united states ti win the cup but now.site editor could you please show us the players adorning jerseys come the world cup

By Rey | April 28th, 2006 at 5:18 pm

No Nintendo? Me no comprehend. If you loose you go down.USA must have a lot of strings in the FIFA or just Coca-Cola.

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By Andry | October 8th, 2006 at 1:06 pm

Autor, Respect!

By Name Alexey | October 10th, 2006 at 1:16 pm

!!! It is class to itself

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