After only seven months of being in the Asian confederation Australia has a huge chance of becoming number one in Asia in both sexes. I wonder what happened to Asian sides teaching us that lesson we were supposed to recieve? C'mon Australia #1 ranked mens team, 2006 womens Asian Cup winners (hopefully) and favourites to win the 2007 mens Asian Cup.
Australia is only ranked #1 because the new Fifa rankings are heavily biased against AFC teams. Now that Australia is in AFC, they will not go up anymore cause of heavy penalties towards the way AFC is structured.
us Aussies cant be the best at everything but if we were the best at something then i would love it to be the mens Soccer
@ Mens #1 in Asia Australia #1 ???? since when Australia #1 in Asia Maybe in FIFA Ranking yeah… but in Real life, no Do you have any Asian trophy? Did Australia won the Asian Cup? Did Australia have any Mickey mouse cups in Asia? Do you have any Achievement in Asia? At lest Israeli won the Asian Cup so yeah they have Achievement What Australia did in Asia? ............. Nothing
1st Answer my Questions. and No they are not and why do you think they are #1 in Asia? did they won the Asian Cup 2004? or the Fantasy Cup 2006? "If" it's not an answer for anything. All they did in Asia they won 3-1 over Bahrain and everyone can win over Bahrain we won over them with our B team 5-1 in the ACQ 2004
There is no "best team" in Asia. Australia, S. Korea, Japan, Iran, and Saudi Arabia are all pretty equal and each team can be beat by any of the other teams at any given time.
and we beat them with our C team, so what. just face the facts, we beat Japan, we were the only Asian team to progress to the second round of the world cup, and we're ranked #1. the point of us not winning anything in Asia is irrelevant, that will change in due time...
what you said don't give a sh!t level and the strength don't mean anything so what if you have a strong team and you win nothing no Cups no Achievements = nothing wait 1 or 2 years then we will see who is Asias #1
you beat Japan in the World cup so that give you some advantage in the world cup but in the Asian Continental you done nothing... yet we hope to see you guys do well and win some Cups, but until that you are not Asians #1
imo the top 4 contenders r Japan, Iran, Korea, Ausrtalia now were all gonna bitch that were better than 1 an nother but the simple truth is on any given day 1 team could beat the other team...I think the location of the asian cup will decide the winner between these 4.
This is pretty accurate. The most we can claim at this point is that we had a successful World Cup and are currently the highest ranked side in FIFA rankings (for what they are worth).
Yeah and Iraq are one of the major footballing powers in Asia aren't they? rolleyes: Iraq are pathetic....
Saudi Arabia one of the best? HAHAHAHA Saudi Arabia are a disgrace to the Asian confederation, humiliation in the past two World Cups, no womens team, thankfully they won't make it to World Cup 2010 now unless they make the half place and win their playoff. Saudi Arabia aren't going to get anywhere anytime soon unless their top players are able and capable of playing in top European leagues.
who said anything about Iraq? at least we have Achievements, maybe we didn't won the Asian Cup but have Achievements, maybe it's not big like the Asian cup and alot of you don't care, but we won the Asian Games, we won the Asian Cup u-20 5 times, we won the Gulf Cup 3 times, West Asia Championship and West Asia Games, at least you guys enter the ASEAN Championship to get some Achievements and please I don't want to involve Iraq in to this conversations, I didn't said Iraq one of the best teams right now, but give us time. still you are not Asians #1 .....good luck
whoa whoa whoa, slow down for a minute my dear iraqi friend first you say iraq is better than saudi even though saudi have won asian cups and iraqi havnt.. now all of a sudden you can twist this when its convenient for you by using asian cups as a measure of success when before it was head to head results.. make up your mind champ
I'm sick and tired of some Austrailian fans and their arrogant claims that they're the "best" team in Asia. Jesus christ get over yourselves, you had a good run at the WC but how friggin long are you going to milk it?
For the Million time I said Iraq better than Saudi Arabia in Head to Head and I never said Iraq better than Saudi Arabia in the Asian cup or I never said Iraq one of the best 5 teams in Asia maybe in Joke yeah, and I never said Iraq Asians #1 to be Asians #1 you have to win some Cups and the Important one the Asian Cup, you must have Achievements to Be Asians #1 and that a different situations between this subject and the other subject when I said we are better than Saudi Arabia Head to Head as I can see you don't have any thing to add or say you are not Asians #1 until you wins the Asian Cup And it's obvious to see what I'm getting at Who is the King of Asia utile next Asian Cup? Japan Maybe Japan will lose some and wins some but in the End they are now King of Asia utile the next Asian Cup