FIFA World Ranking - AFC

No, you have the right to praise your team, in the end we all know Australia is one of the strongest teams in Asia. also you are ahead of us in many ways, professionalism (Player and Clubs), Good football League, the Home Ground which it's a huge advantage, Financially you are better, you are better in preparing (Friendly matches), and of course you have the talent.

We do have the talent and we also have a good coach (Egil Olsen), but it isn't enough, we need half what others have, we need at least play decent friendly matches.

One thing for sure, we won't make it easy for you.

 

Lol like Mussav says it's not about winning or losing, Australia are a very good football team. But they really couldn't "spank" Saudi or Iraq as you put it.

I mean I wouldn't be surprised to see you beat Iraq or Saudi, but "spank" them??

Either way, good luck to both teams in the qualifiers.

 

the only Asian team to get into Round 16?
In 2006, Australia was not a part of Asia! Australia had play-off with Uruguay and eventually qualified. They were not in the member of AFC at that time.
Australia joined AFC after WC 2006.
You are plain ignorant.

 

This gets better and better. We may not have qualified for Germany as part of the AFC, but as of January 1st 2006, we became part of the Asian Football Confederation. Also, if we weren't part of Asia until after the world cup, how come we played an Asia Cup qualifier against Bahrain in February that year? Now who's ignorant?

Just incase the writing isn't already on the wall check this out.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_Federation_Australia

 

Gosh! I 'd better ignore you next time.
Your ignorance is endless.

 

What? Please explain how I am ignorant.

 

This thread will become like our old thread,if you don´t stop this useless arguments about ignorant or something else,so please stop this!

Iraq and Australia and Saudiyah are good teams,ok?

 

just ignore him, he sounds like a troll.

 

Just admit you were wrong you big baby. Bay is right Australia was part of Asia from 2006 you twit.

 

hey Bay, seriously i think Australia is about the same level as japan. in the WC we beat them and in the AC they beat us and there doesn't seem to be much between the sides.. but then given saudis beat japan, and iraq beat the saudis and beat Oz, i dont see how we can go around saying we would spank them... but man it would be great if we do!!

 

February rankings :

35 Japan down 1
38 Australia up 10
39 Iran up 2
41 Korea Rep -
50 Saudi Arabia up 7
68 Uzbekistan down 2
69 Iraq down 2
75 China up 7
83 Bahrain up 17
92 Thailand up 15
95 UAE up 4
96 Qatar down 8
98 Oman down 6

http://www.fifa.com/worldfootball/r...fullranking.html#confederation=25998&rank=166

 

Wow, that's a big jump for us! 10 places? FIFA rankings certainly work in weird ways. Oh well, i'm not complaining................................this time!!!

P.S. We could really nudge up the rankings with a good qualifying campaign! *Fingers crossed*

 

Well, technically, Japan didn't beat Australia during the Asian Cup. The match was drawn. We bombed out on penalties.

 

LOL
Pot, kettle, black. Run along...........

 

Wow, would never have guessed, another ************ month in the FIFA rankings for Iraq.

 

I think this month the FIFA Ranking is not fair.Look:
I mean congrats to Thailand for the very better Ranking,now.

Thailand´s matches this year:Japan-Thailand 4-1

Syria´s matches this year:Syria-Qatar 0-0,Syria - Bahrain 2-1,Syria-China 1-2,Syria-Iran 0-0.

Iran is 63 places higher ranked then us,and we drew away ,in a WC Qualification match and in a A-International match,we drew in an official match at home, against higher ranked Qatar,we won away against higher ranked Bahrain in an official match,and we just lost after a hard match away aginst China,where we had many chances to score.


So what is the reason that we went up just 1 place.China drew away against Iraq ,which is not ranked higher much,and went up 7 places!

That is so unfair!

But congrats to the teams who went up,maybe next month we´ll go up!

 

Australia; is a topp class team.They have players like cahill and kewell operating in the best leagues in the world. and they are the most likely asian team to win a world cup due to their europe experience.

Iraq: Without doubt a top class to they have players playing in the arab league and still can reach the semis at the world cup.Iraqs golden generation is here! with players like Younis,Hawar,Nashat,Mahdi,Bassem,Jassim and i can go on.
i must say iraq is atleast 1-3 best team in asia.


Saudi-Arabia:
A Dominant force in asia for a long time and they have players playing in just saudi-arabia with superstriker Yasser etc, they have a good world cup history and every team will be struggling against them.


They have a different history with eachother.

Australia and saudi-arabia always struggles with iraq.
Australia and saudi-arabia yet have to play.

 

After being placed in the 80's something after worldcup 2006, Saudi Arabia has finally reached 50.
aND INshallah if Saudi Arabia qualifies to the Worldcup, maybe it would be ranked in the 30's something.

 

Good move for Saudi Arabia + Bahrain + Australia

 

I've heard it's to do with the fact that Iraq can't play matches on home soil or something like that? Not sure though.

 

I nearly fell over too when i saw we jumped 10 places after beating only Qatar (who were ranked 88) in the past month. I think a lot of our big jump was due to a handful of African nations having a horrible African Nations Cup campaign and going backwards. Nigeria dropped something like 30 spots, Senegal and Guinea dropped back a fair way. I think Mali may have fallen too and they were all ahead of us.

IMO i think the current Aust side playing the way they are should be ranked around the mid to high 30's. I also think we have the potential to jump another 10 spots, but we are a fair way off playing to our potential.

I still lack confidence in the FIFA rankings. As "syriaman" said, Syria drew with Qatar and Iran and beat Bahrain and they only move 1 place

 

Yeah man, lack of funding to travel for friendlies and obviously we can't have people back here.

Also the incompetence of the FA is another issue. Ah well...

 

the FIFA Ranking Counts all the points of the matches in the past years. and the system will start to reduce the points of the matches every year (it'll take 8 years to be completely removed from the ranking system )

that means if you have a black history (just like us) or a few disappointed matches, the ranking system will start to remove it with the passage of time.

 

A win over U.A.E. and a draw against china and jordan and Iraq move back? i dont want to know who is making all this shiti decision

 

Remember.. the points you won in the Asian Games 2007 (Qatar) are starts to be reduced because its Passed a year On it.