Oct
8
2008
Fifa World Rankings - October 2008
Fifa’s World Rankings for October 2008 were released today. The top 30 countries are listed below.
Major changes see Russia move into the top 10, Scotland drop out of the top 20 and Romania take a stumble in their surprisingly high rankings.
Here they are, updated 8 October 2008:
Fifa World Rankings - Top 30
- Spain
- Italy
- Germany
- Brazil (+2)
- Netherlands (-1)
- Croatia (-1)
- Argentina
- Czech Republic
- Russia (+3)
- Portugal (-1)
- France
- Cameroon (+2)
- Turkey (-3)
- England (+1)
- Bulgaria (+1)
- Israel (+3)
- Greece (+1)
- Romania (-5)
- Ukraine (+7)
- Uruguay (+2)
- USA (+7)
- Egypt (-1)
- Paraguay (+3)
- Mexico (+0)
- Ghana (-5)
- Scotland (-10)
- Nigeria
- Sweden (+3)
- Ivory Coast (-6)
- Poland
Full list here.
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How do they rank countries anyway? Spain(Euro Champions) Italy(World Champions), Germany(Euro finalist and World Cup semi finalist) earned their rights to be in the top 3. But how did Netherlands and whipping boys Croatia got to be untop South American powerhouse Argentina? Holland in the top 10 i understand but Croatia and Czech Republic in the top 10? Isn’t it ridiculous? Is Bulgaria better than Romania? Did Israel play in any tournaments recently that they are placed higher than Sweden, Nigeria and Romania? Cameroon is above England!!! Isn’t there a difference in standards between Europe and Africa? Im sure they have a way of calculating when faced with the level of stadards issue. Jardel scored 40 goals in the Belgian league many years ago but Kevin Philips still got the European golden boots after scoring 32 goals for Sunderland because of the difference in standards between the 2 leagues. Don’t FIFA practise the same way in calculating points per win when comparing the standards of the team and tournament? FIFA once again screwed up and dumbfounded me and im sure many people around the world too.
How many people are with me by the way?
i agree with EPL. argentina should be no. 1, and holland no. 2. what have spain done to be no. 1, beat a team like austria, russia or fluke win over belgium?? spain is just in a lucky era. after 2010 it’ll be back to normal as eternal failures in the world game, winning a title every 44 years. wow, spain SUCKS!!!
i remember italy being a 100 POINTS behind brazil going into the 2006 WC and look what happened, who lifted the trophy in 2006?? it was ITALY NOT brazil.
FIFA have to realize a system of assessing team talent and tactics, because that’s what wins WCs and tournaments. then a performance indicator can just be based on the results attained in matches.
ARGENTINA WILL WIN 2010 WC BEATING NETHERLANDS IN THE FINAL!!! and then we see how much FIFA knows about football. FIFA and UEFA both SUCK!! platini and blatter BOTH SUCK!!!