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world rankings!!

Mon Jul 04, 2016 8:51 am

I heard earlier today that Wales could be as high as 6th when rankings are announced next time,higher than Brazil :o and of course England :lol: :thumbup:

Re: world rankings!!

Mon Jul 04, 2016 11:18 am

Its a bit more complicated than that, considering 4 teams around the top 10 (including us :D ) still have 1 game, potentially 2, to play, but as it stands we are minimum 11th, but could still vary quite a bit within that :)

Re: world rankings!!

Mon Jul 04, 2016 11:51 am

Not a true reflection is the world rankings,Prime example is Belguim at no2 for quite a while now.They have never been second best team in the world!

Re: world rankings!!

Mon Jul 04, 2016 1:43 pm

It does exactly what FIFA want it to do as far as I can tell...it gives nations a chance to both rocket up the rankings and plummet back down them in-between draws if they do well enough. From what I can tell, the best way to gain in them is being hard to beat and don't play many friendlies. I think if FIFA wanted it to be an exact representation of the rankings of every country they would have made the one or two small changes needed to do that :)