The Soccer Thread

[betnotbe]

I look for cleveland to do better this year than last year

[Umbaka]

Mexico slammed USA in the final 5-0 bringing an end to the most underrated(and I don't mean it in a good way) Football Confederation competition only second to that of Oceania's

[HotSauce]

real madrid is playing too 0-0 Half Time
Watch Live Real Madrid vs Al-Ittihad

[Oscar]

man i completely forgot today mexico plays usa in the copa oro
its the finals its goin on right now

[Umbaka]

USA drew 2-2 with Haiti who physically manhandled them. I've always new Haiti can be a good team and proberbly the best in the Caribbean and even CONCACAF if it wasn't for the issues in the country. I've always wondered though why is the US playing these weak teams on artificial pitches. I've known bigger clubs to have their playing style affected by these artifical turf so it would be worst off for teams that isn't that exprienced.

[Oscar]

mexico played 1 again against guadalupe and one 2-0 oh yea there gonna play next in my city i might go see it

[Oscar]

mexico played panama and tied 1-1 aww man that sucked

[Oscar]

yessssssss we made another goal ahahahaha
2-0

now they are strugglin
i still have hope 4 them though

[Vinnie P]

Mexico seems to struggle lately.

[Oscar]

mexico is playin nicaragua and is winnin 1-0
come on keep it up

[Vinnie P]

Well canada won yesterday 1-0.

[>War|Gamez<]

Well Umbaka , if your talking about who i am backing for the Worldcup2010 , then i am backing 5 teams .
I am not backing south africa to win it , because they don't have a chance to win it.
But will support them anyway ,along with brazil.

To win WC2010 , 1 of these teams.

Holland - Russia - Paraguay - France - Denmark

[Vinnie P]

^^True. Russia advance cuz of their win over finland 3-0, the only threat for them is Germany right now.

[Umbaka]

^Well as ppl say the FIFA ranking system is flawed.

[Vinnie P]

Victory on all fronts for Brazil: after winning the FIFA Confederations Cup in South Africa, the Sele&#231;&#227;o have regained the top spot in the FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking, thus relegating European champions Spain (2nd, down 1) to second place. The South Americans last topped the ranking in August 2007, a position to which they have climbed six times in the history of the ranking.

The Netherlands (3rd, down 1), Italy (4th, unchanged) and Germany (5th, down 2), occupy the next three places, but are some distance behind the leading duo. Russia (6th, up 3) have overtaken England (7th, down 1) and Argentina (8th, down 1), achieving their best position since August 1997 in the process.

Of the other countries that took part in the FIFA Confederations Cup South Africa 2009, finalists the USA (12th, up 2), Egypt (38th, up 2) and hosts South Africa (70th, up 2) have also progressed up the ranking. Egypt's improved position despite their early exit from the tournament is due to their 1-0 victory over world champions Italy, which scored very highly in terms of ranking points. Meanwhile, disappointing performances by Iraq (94th, down 17) and New Zealand (100th, down 18 ) caused them to lose ground.

In other news, Algeria (47th, up 19) and Tunisia (49th, up 2) have climbed into the top 50 at the expense of Burkina Faso (51st, down 1) and Finland (52nd, down 3). Furthermore, the following teams have achieved their best position since the ranking was introduced in 1993: Australia (16th, up 13), Gabon (30th, up 18 ), Grenada (88th, up 14), Montenegro (98th, up 12) and Antigua and Barbuda (105th, up 9).

In the last four weeks, a total of 119 senior international matches were played: 16 FIFA Confederations Cup matches, 67 FIFA World Cup™ qualifying matches and 36 friendlies. This brings the total matches played this year to 406. The many matches played and the devaluation of matches at UEFA EURO 2008 are the main reasons for the many changes in position in this edition of the ranking.

The news FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking.
1 Brazil
2 Spain
3 Netherlands
4 Italy
5 Germany
6 Russia
7 England
8 Argentina
9 France
10 Croatia

Damn I'm surprised and happy to see russia being 6th in the world.