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Offline Holden McGroin

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« on: September 09, 2005, 06:49:53 AM »
FIFA rankings show USA ranked above England, France, Germany,

We are #6 behind Brazil, Argentina, the Dutch, the Czechs, and Mexico.

What is the world coming to?
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Offline Furball

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« Reply #1 on: September 09, 2005, 06:58:35 AM »
the rankings are based upon your results in competitive matches, and you have done well in your world cup qualifiers.  

the qualifiers are vastly more difficult in europe as the teams are of a higher calibre.

that is not taking anything away from you of course, you can only beat who you are playing against - and you have done extremely well.

congratulations :aok
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« Reply #2 on: September 09, 2005, 07:18:46 AM »
germany doesn't even have to play the world cup qualifier matches as it's going to host the 2006 world cup.
sooo, no qualifier matches, no scores for the FIFA rankings (afaik).

hehe, what an awesome excuse, because admittedly our team pretty much sucks right now. We lost in slovakia last weekend, that was almost as bad as september 1st, 2001.

anyway, see you guys next year! :)

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« Reply #3 on: September 09, 2005, 07:23:30 AM »
FIFA?

HDI ranking is much more interesting :p

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« Reply #4 on: September 09, 2005, 07:38:42 AM »
The US has a very good team and have done well.  You guys should be proud of them.:aok
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« Reply #5 on: September 09, 2005, 07:48:33 AM »
What is FIFA?

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« Reply #6 on: September 09, 2005, 07:51:59 AM »
we play something called fifi ?

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« Reply #7 on: September 09, 2005, 08:04:09 AM »
Silly rankings.

We beat Mexico to qualify, and send our 3rd string to Guatamala to finish the tournament. Mexico needs to win their remaining games to qualify. So the Tourney ends up with Mexico in 1st place (we tied Guatamala) and ranked ahead of us.

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« Reply #8 on: September 09, 2005, 08:13:01 AM »
So FIFA is a sport? Do they play that in Fiji?

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« Reply #9 on: September 09, 2005, 08:25:07 AM »
FIFA = Fédération Internationale de Football Association. I guess they do play football in Fiji, although they don't seem to be in the World Cup 2006 qualification.

(edit: added the link)
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« Reply #10 on: September 09, 2005, 08:26:42 AM »
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Originally posted by Panzzer
FIFA = F�d�ration Internationale de Football Association.

Oh, FOOTBALL! Why didn't you just say so? I thought it was called NFL-Europe though. The US-NFL season started last night.


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« Reply #11 on: September 09, 2005, 08:28:05 AM »
Finally glad our ***SOCCER*** teams are finally catching up.
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« Reply #12 on: September 09, 2005, 11:13:08 AM »
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Originally posted by lasersailor184
Finally glad our ***SOCCER*** teams are finally catching up.


its football

hence the name FIFA.

"Fédération Internationale de Football"

it is not FISA
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« Reply #13 on: September 09, 2005, 11:24:28 AM »
Quite right.  Everyone knows FISA stands for, "Furball's Internationally Stupid Association".  :D
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« Reply #14 on: September 09, 2005, 11:30:07 AM »
Hey, when we had to bail you guys out of 2 world wars, we renamed it Soccer.  

If you don't like it, tough.
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