I am also of the opinion that these rankings should be decided through a voting of coaches/journalists. The FIFA ranking is very inaccurate, and yours is a joke. You cannot just count results in recent matches like that. You have to also take into account the level of the teams played and the context. In the case of Argentina, they have indeed lost/tied many of their recent matches, but it's no mistery that this has started as soon as they have achieved their WC qualification (even before Brazil) and that the coach has started trying some new players/configurations. As I said in a different thread, in the last 4 years Argentina has been: a) first ex-aequo with Brazil (in term of points) in the WC qualifiers b) finalist in Copa America c) finalist in Confed Cup d) Olympic Champion e) Sub 20 Champion Does that place them in 29th position? Don't think so.
hahaha gotta agree with you on that one... besides Brazil being in first, i dont see any ranking being accurate, England is up there for beating strong teams like Argentina, meanwhile the US is there too for beating teams like Guatemala and Norway.....and teams like Poland, Uruguay, Japan, Crotia are above Argentina/Mexico?
having coaches decide rankings is even stupider than any kind of mathematical formula. You would have very biased rankings, and you also cannot expect coaches to know alot about every team out there, I can't believe how many of you are advocating this type of rankings, this is a joke. The rankings would never change regardless of matches played, you would always have Brazil #1 Argentina #2 Italy#3. Also many of the European sides would be overrated due to bias.
i dont see a problem with that...more believable than having Mexico and USA in the top 10 and just having a good laugh with it...like it or not the top 10 should be Brasil, Argentina and 8 euros.
<SARCASM> Hey I found this on FIFA's site "Since its introduction, the FIFA/Coca-Cola Ranking has proved to be a reliable measure for comparing national A-teams." So how can anyone say their ranking system needs improvement? </SARCASM> Is it possible that Bruce Arena's goal is just to get us to the top of the FIFA world rankings? USA #1!
with the opponents picked for the friendlies could be, after all he said playing Germany was a mistake...