April FIFA Rankings
What happens when your team gets thumped 4-1 by Germany and draws with a below-average Jamaican side? Why, you move up a spot in the April 2006 FIFA rankings, that’s what!
As further proof of FIFA’s madness, the U.S. Men’s National Team is now ranked fourth in the world, up one spot from last month’s best-ever ranking.
Group E opponents Italy and Ghana are ranked number 14 and number 50, respectively. I guess this means that we should just fly through that so-called “Group of Death,” right?
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Interesting that Guinea, at number 52, is the first country listed that actually gained points in March. Maybe America just sucked less than 47 of the top 51.
Maybe America just sucked less than 47 of the top 51.
That’s a great observation.
Seems like a catchy new slogan for our side “We suck less than you!”
[...] Honest observers will admit that the World Cup run was cursed from the day the U.S. Men’s National Team was drawn into the Group of Death. Despite our over-inflated FIFA ranking, the proposition of facing Ghana, Italy, and the Czech Republic in group play was enough to crush the expectations of even the most cockeyed optimist. [...]
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