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Old May 1st 2006, 7:51 pm
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Since Ireland managed somehow not to get into the World Cup I have not been following the run-up too closely until now when I see the USA football team are ranked fourth best in the world by FIFA... . How did this happen !?, are they really that good ?

Also I see Rooney is out of the world cup. Hard luck England..
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How did this happen !?,
by playing the likes of Costa Rica, Canada, Panama, Guatemala, Jamaica, Belize on regular occasions due to the qualifying groups.

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are they really that good ?.
nope........
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Just the criteria FIFA uses to rank, it's skewed to take into account playing against easier opponents but it's not skewed enough.
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FIFA take into account games from the last 8 years, so getting into the quarter finals of the world cup last time around plays a part in it too.
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Someone move this to the trailer park - **** all to do with the US and information on being an ex pat or whatever the hell this site is really supposed to be about....
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Default Re: USA football ranking

Originally Posted by MrDub
Since Ireland managed somehow not to get into the World Cup I have not been following the run-up too closely until now when I see the USA football team are ranked fourth best in the world by FIFA... . How did this happen !?, are they really that good ?

Also I see Rooney is out of the world cup. Hard luck England..

Here's a good article relating to this.

http://www.signonsandiego.com/sports...1s26pitch.html
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Originally Posted by mickmills
Here's a good article relating to this.

http://www.signonsandiego.com/sports...1s26pitch.html
I like the ELO ratings.... England 3rd.
Was wondering what they'd been up to since their last album
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Originally Posted by Big D
Someone move this to the trailer park - **** all to do with the US and information on being an ex pat or whatever the hell this site is really supposed to be about....

Or to the locker room...
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Default Re: USA football ranking

[QUOTE=MrDub]Since Ireland managed somehow not to get into the World Cup I have not been following the run-up too closely until now when I see the USA football team are ranked fourth best in the world by FIFA... . How did this happen !?, are they really that good ?

Where I feel the 4th place rating is way too high, they do have Landon Donovan who is a bit special. He has that extra bit of magic that can turn a game. I can't wait for the world cup to start.

I was quite confident last week that England could win it, but without a fully fit Rooney I can't see that happeing now. Oh well.
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I call Crouch to prove us all wrong and finish top scorer in tourney... eh? If USA beat Italy i hit a very nice payday so i'm not saying anything bad against them right now.
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Since it's the FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking

Maybe England would be 4th if it was the FIFA/Cadbury Schweppes World Ranking.
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Default Re: USA football ranking

Originally Posted by MrDub
Since Ireland managed somehow not to get into the World Cup I have not been following the run-up too closely until now when I see the USA football team are ranked fourth best in the world by FIFA... . How did this happen !?, are they really that good ?

Also I see Rooney is out of the world cup. Hard luck England..

I don't get it...why all the talk about football- hell the superbowl was just a month or two ago. NFL won't even have training camp 'till summer. What's all this about England and 'FIFA"?? Have those ladyboy Brits finally gotten a pair and decided to play real ball??
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Originally Posted by ironporer
I don't get it...why all the talk about football- hell the superbowl was just a month or two ago. NFL won't even have training camp 'till summer. What's all this about England and 'FIFA"?? Have those ladyboy Brits finally gotten a pair and decided to play real ball??
Yes we have. Please send lots of padding asap. We just need a larger sized "cup" allround. Cheers.
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Originally Posted by ironporer
I don't get it...why all the talk about football- hell the superbowl was just a month or two ago. NFL won't even have training camp 'till summer. What's all this about England and 'FIFA"?? Have those ladyboy Brits finally gotten a pair and decided to play real ball??
I think you have to be in better shape and tougher to play soccer/football than U.S. football. You don't see any fat soccer players and they don't wear pads or helmets. No time outs or changing offence and defence teams.
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Originally Posted by mdyoung
I think you have to be in better shape and tougher to play soccer/football than U.S. football. You don't see any fat soccer players and they don't wear pads or helmets. No time outs or changing offence and defence teams.

No...just a bunch of boy-toys running up and down the field in showing off their asses in short shorts and knee socks...showing their tits when they score a goal.

Is it the men's asses, legs or tits that the British males like to watch so fervently? :scared:
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