Not sure if anyone noticed - or cares, for that matter - but apparently Tajikstan has been suspended from all international competitions until further notice. http://www.fifa.com/Service/MR_M/42159_E.html Anyone know why this happened?
who cares, they suck. 120 Turkmenistan 357 115 -5 113 -7 126 Korea DPR 336 125 -1 136 10 130 India 332 124 -6 121 -9 140 Yemen 286 140 0 135 -5 142 Sri Lanka 285 142 0 143 1 143 Hong Kong 264 143 0 137 -6 148 Maldives Republic 238 148 0 147 -1 148 Palestine 238 147 -1 145 -3 152 Bangladesh 228 151 -1 146 -6 153 Myanmar 220 153 0 151 -2 156 Tajikistan 207 155 -1 154 -2 157 Nepal 204 156 -1 156 -1 165 Laos 186 164 -1 162 -3 166 Kyrgyzstan 185 166 0 164 -2 168 Chinese Taipei 182 172 4 170 2 172 Cambodia 167 171 -1 169 -3 178 Philippines 138 175 -3 175 -3 180 Pakistan 128 181 1 181 1 182 Macao 103 182 0 180 -2 188 Mongolia 88 188 0 187 -1
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm...9/ap_wo_en_po/sports_soccer_fifa_tajikistan_1 Tajikistan is an almost surreally corrupt and dangerous place, even by Central Asian/ex-USSR standards. I'm sure that has something to do with it.
maybe dem drugs http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020817/ap_wo_en_po/tajikistan_drugs_2 yeah, im bored.
Sharichev, or Eui-son Sin used to play for Tajik NT as goalie although I think he was Russian. I think he did play for some teams in Moscow before he came to K-League. He is now officially Korean (if you are a Korean over 25 years old, you can't have two citizenship. So he discarded his Russian citizenship and immigrated to Korea) and that's why he hs "Eui-son Sin" Korean name. He plays for Anyang LG Cheetahs who played Suwon Samsung in Asian Club Championship Semi-final, and He also played in K-League All Star game few days ago.
Eui-son Shin literally means "God's hand." They made a Korean name like that since afterall, he really was an amazing goalie when he was younger.
North Korea should probably be ranked in top 100; it's just that they don't have enough money to participate cup games and that they don't play friendlies.