FIFA to name 2014 host country

Brazil hosting of the 2014 World cup is expected to be confirmed at the end of october 2007 thats is somewhere today after FIFA finalised its selection. FIFA world soccer governing body said it would name the host on october following a meeting of its excutive meeting committee.

Brazil FIFA world ranking number one,and the country thats holds the world cups the most times are host to the world cup in 1950 which they lost to Uruguay by 2-1 margin in their capital of Rio de Janeiro. With the changes of the FIFA World Ranking last year, The number one ranking had been changing hand between this three country, Italy, Brazil and Argentina. Before it was Brazil all the time. The last world cup that the south America country host are in Argentina in the year 1978 where the host won the world cup.

South Africa will host 2010 world cup

Fifa president Sepp Blatter said that the world cups for the year 2010 that is going to held in South Africa would go ahead as planned even though football govering body had madeplans for a last minute venue switch. He said it was only Prudent for alternatives changes to be considered should unforseen diaster srtrike.

Sepp Blatter said no others African country was on the list despite as it being the continents turns to stage the world cup in South Africa if South Africa is unable to stage the world cup. There are many other country that can stage the world cup in a few year preparation. Countries like England, United States, Spain, Mexico and Japan.

South Africa who is now FIFA World Ranking number 61th is planned to build 10 new stadiums for the 2010 world cup and dismissed suggestions that it will not be ready on time that worry the football govering body. During the meeting the Fifa has suggest giving more helps to the referees by dobling the linesman from two to four.

Brazil are now FIFA World Ranking number one

This year 2007 we see alot of changes in the FIFA World Ranking standing. Just a few month back we see Italy which won the world cup in 2006 became world ranking number one and France shoot up in second spots while Brazil which won the most world cups drops to number three position. Japan who fail to defend as a campion in the Asain cups drop to 41 position and south Korea moves up to 50 position.

With the 2007 copa America game this month where the final was play between Brazil and Argentina and eventually Brazil won the cups by beating Argentina by two goals became FIFA World Ranking number one. Argentina who lost to Brazil and the favourite to win the Copa America cups is now world ranking number two. Italy drops to thirds position and follows by France and Germany. England the most talk teams in the world are out of the top 10 ranking, there are now on the 12th position due to there recent bad performers in their games.

Countries like USA are in the 17 the place, Croatia a good result in the Euro 2008 qualifying round are up in the six position behind Germany. Malaysia a country where I lived is drops to 156 position after a very bad result in the recent Asian cups.

Maradona hand goal was voted the best goal of all time.

Hungarian not in the top twenty of the FIFA World Ranking was voted second best team of all time after Brazil's who is now the third FIFA World Ranking. Hungarian side of 1953 was voted second best and Dutch side that lose in the 1974 World cups final to West Germany. During that time, the Dutch team was captain by the one time superstar Johan Cruff.

While Maradona was voted the best top goalscorers by World Soccer Magazine from the second goal score against England in 1986 World cups quater-final, Dutchman Marco Van Basten goal against the soviet Union in Holland's victory in the 1988 Europeon Championship final was voted the second best and Zinedine Zidane's was voted the third best playing for Real Madrid in their 2002 champions leaque final victory over Bayer Leverkusen.

Brazil's 1970 world cup voted the best team of all time

Brazil 1970 World cup winning teams and FIFA world ranking number one at that time has been voted the best of all time in a global poll of experts conducted by world soccer magazine. The greatest goal of all time was score by Diego Maradona's was judged the best goal during the quater-final match against England where Argentina won the match 2-1 in the 1986 World cups in Mexico.

The vote for the greatest match of all time completed a hattrick for events that took place in Mexico World cups. The experts opted for the 1970 semi- final in mexico city in which Italy, now 2007 FIFA World Ranking number one, beat Germany 4-3 in extra time after a heart pounching match.

World Soccer Magazine described Brazil's 1970 winners as more than a team adding the Brazilian side that won the 1970 World cup in such style have become a myth, a team to be held up as the ultimate exponents of the beautiful game.

Columbia not in the top twenty placing by FIFA world ranking

Former Colombia international Footballer Freddy Rincon was arrested in Brazil following an extradition request from Panama. He was detained this morning and is being held at the federal police headquarters in Sao Paulo. Police said Rincon, who was arrested at his home is wanted in Panama on money laundering charges.

Rincon a lanky midfielder with a surprisingly delf touch, played for Brazilian clubs Corinthians and Palmeiras, Napoli and Real Madrid. He played in three world cups for his country and captained the Corinthians team who won FIFA's club world cup in the year 2000.

Recently the 40 year old Ricon has been trying to break into coaching and this year had a brief spell with modest provincial club Sao Bento. This year from the FIFA world ranking result, Columbia are not in the top twenty placing.

France climb to second in FIFA ranking

Europe stole a march on South America in June's FIFA world ranking list released on this month with France leapfrogging Brazil and Argentina to take second spots, while 2006 world cup champions Italy held onto first place. Back to back victories in Europe 2008 qualifiers this month buoyed both France and Germany, which rose to fourth placing in the world, its higest position in more than four years.

Breaking up into the top 20 were the United States, Sweden, Ghana and Ivory Coast. Their fortunes constrasted with Turkey, Scothland,Russia and Mexico, all of which feel several places. The biggest surge albeit lower down the rankings, came from Armenia which climbed to 48th position from 80th position due to an upset victory over Poland.

FIFA world ranking body sain the rankings would likely be shaken up in the coming months with the Copa America and more Europe 2008 qualifiers taken into account, while results from last year's world cup diminshing in value. The placings of the top twenty are :

1) Italy
2) France
3) Brazil
4) Germany
5) Argentina
6) Portugal
7) Spain
8) England
9) Holland
10) Czech Republic
11) Croatia
12) Romamia
13) Ukraine
14) Cameroon
15) Greece
16) United State
17) Sweden
18) Poland
19) Ghana
20) Ivory Coast

FIFA World Ranking for Asian countries keep droping

The changes take places in this year FIFA World Ranking are quite fast due to many countries commitment in the European and Asian cups. Italy after winning the 2006 world cups has jumps to second place behind Brazil, the most world cups champions With the early changes Argentina became FIFA World Ranking follow by Italy and Brazil. The latest changes see Italy becomes the worls number one FIFA World Ranking

The changes also see England Drops to eight sports following poor result in this year European qualiflying games. Argentina goes down to second place while Brazil which is always number one in FIFA World Ranking stay in third placing. French and Germany remaind fourth and fifth placing. Holland and Portugal up one placing, there are now six and seven placing above England.

Fot the Asian countries Japan and South Korea drops to 46th and 51st placing. Malaysia last time in soccer a fear country in Asia drops to 151th placing and will be droping if the standard of soccer is not improved compare to neighbouring country Singapore and is now above Malaysia in 124th position.

Most of the teams in Africa is improving their position, while many teams in Europe has slight changes in their ranking. USA are in 29th placing now.

Argentina FIFA world ranking number one 2007

Brazil to the FIFA World Ranking always stay number one ranking in the world because of their times of winning the soccer world cups. Italy won the world cups in 2006 beating France in the finals promoted to second place behind the popular country, Brazil. Argentina the world FIFA world ranking taking third place after the world cup are now the favourite in FIFA world ranking. Staying number one ranking in the FIFA world ranking for the first time beating brazil and Italy having 1616 points.Italy remains in second place with a point of 1592 and Brazil all times number one drops to third place having secure 1557 points

England one of the best country to watch them playing soccer drops from fifth place to six place because of their poor performers during this european match only secure 1339 points, France in forth with 1515 points, Germany in fifth with 1390, follow by Holland 1313, Portugal 1288, Czech rep 1195 and ten place is Spain with 1161 points.

The others evelven sports to twenty are as follows Ukraine 1037, Croatia 982, Greece 961, Romania 919, Sweden 914, Scothland 911, Switzerland 906, Cameroon 893, Ghana 881 and Ivory Coast 875.

South Africa 19th FIFA world cup

In the year 2010 South Africa will be the host of 19th FIFA world cup and is the first time that the FIFA world cup is held in a African continent. After one round of voting, the winning bid was announced by FIFA president Sepp Blatter at a media conference on May 15 2004 in Zurich. South Africa 14 votes was awarded the rights to host the tournament, defeating Morocco having 10 votes and Egypt.

Ten venue choosen by FIFA world cup to be held in South Africa is 1) Cape Town African Renaissance Stadium, 2) Johannesburg Soccer City, 3) Durban King Senzangakhona Stadium, 4) Port Elizabeth Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium, 5) Johannesburg Ellis Park Stadium, 6) Pretoria Loftus Versfeld Stadium, 7) Nelspruit Mbombela Stadium, 8) Rustenburg Royal Bafokeng Stadium, 9) Bloemfontein Free State Stadium, 10) Polokwane Peter Mokaba Stadium

The best player in world in 2006

When coming to select the player of the year all nations, clubs and players will start to think about who deserves to be the sports personality of the year. Ronaldinho is still the best choice to win the awards in 2006.

Always putting a smile in his face when playing soccer, Ronaldinho is still rated the best player in world by FIFA world ranking and admire and support by his fan and supporters with his soccer tricks, clips and passing. Last year voted the best players of the year by FIFA WORLD RANKING playing for Barcelona, his team mate Eto was second runners up while chelsea player Lampard was runners up in 2005.

Present ranking do not reflect strengths of the national teams.

The ranking system was most recently revamped after the 2006 World Cup, with the first edition of the new series of rankings issued on July 12, 2006. The most significant change is that the rankings are now based on results over the previous four years instead of the previous eight years. The change is perceived to respond to criticisms that the rankings do not effectively reflect the relative strengths of the national teams.

From today's FIFA world ranking we see alot of changes from positions to positions as point alloted from game their play in the international match, win-3, draw-1 or lose.

Italy after their won the world cups up to second position but now down to fifth spots behind England who never won any international this four years.

Brazil remains number one no dough their are five times world champion but their play less international compare to europe country. Argentina is another country still remains number 3 in the world but not a very good team compare to the time of Diago Maranonia. FRANCE NO 2 taking the place from Italy after the september ranking. Czech is up to 7 place and Spain down to 10th.

FIFA World Ranking for September 2006

Current info about FIFA World Ranking is not always the easiest thing to locate. Fortunately, this report includes the latest fifa world ranking info available.

Since the change to the FIFA World Ranking procedure which came into effect in August 2006 the rankings will no longer take into account the last eight years of results only the last four years of results.

The FIFA World Rankings for September 2006, Brazil remain top, followed by France and Argentina. England are up to the heady heights of fourth. Italy the world champion in 2006 and fifa world ranking number 2 after they won the cup are down to fifth place.

6 Netherlands, 7 Czech Republic 8 Germany 9 Portugal 10 Spain . These are the top ten FIFA World Ranking for September 2006.
Malaysia are in 148th position, Japan are up to 47th position. South Korea occupy 49th position. The USA drop to 29th.

Fifa world ranking- Brazil still no.1

This year 2006 world cup finals are being held in Germany and it promises to be a very exciting and entertaining event. The tournament which only takes place every four years is in my opinion the biggest sporting event which takes place. It means everything to all of the players taking part as well as to the supporters.

Italy won the world cup this year and is Fifa world ranking number 2 behind Brazil.

USA is one disappointing teams losing to Czechs 3-0, drawing to Italy the eventually world chamption 1-1 and finally lost to Ghana 2-1. After the first round exit the American soccer team fell from 5th to 16th in the FIFA World rankings.

England is one best team to watch. They play a very good attacking and defence game
but lack the finish touch and their poor penalty takker.

Brazil is one of the team to watch but lost to France in the semi.

This year world cup we saw all the the European country in the semi and the final.

FIFA World Ranking : Italy is now world no. 2 in racking

Italy became fifa world ranking numbers two after won the fifa world cup in the year 2006 by beating France 2-0 in the finals. Brazil still remains world ranking numbers one after losing to France in the semi-finals. Germany as a host losing to Italy in the semi-finals and beating portugal for third placing stay in 9th position.

Argentina stays in third placing follows by France 4th, England 5th, Holland 6th, Spain 7th, Portugal 8th, Germany 9th and 10th placing Czech Republic.

U.S.A drop to 23 position and Japan occopy 48th position after friendy match against Tri and Tob.

FIFA World Ranking : Growth follows investment in grassroots

From cannon fodder to credible opponents, Lithuania's reputation as a football nation is growing by the day. Saturday's 1-1 draw with Italy was another benchmark of the dramatic progress they have made, but there are plenty of others.
Three and a half years ago, when Berti Vogts' side lost 1-0 in Kaunas, Lithuania were 97th in the FIFA world rankings compared to Scotland's 59. A steady improvement under Walter Smith has brought Scotland up 19 places to 40, but Lithuania have shown even greater signs of progress, jumping 32 places to 65th.

Liutauras Varanavicius, the president of the Lithuanian FA, welcomed the improvement at national level but feels the most significant work is being done at grassroots in a country where basketball has historically been the main sport.
"People who are working inside football can see the great progress we have made," he said. "The effect has been felt not only in our ranking, but in the standard of coaching and the development of players.
"We have managed to increase participation levels by 40% over the last four years and last year they [participation levels]

reached the same as basketball for the first time.
"Those who are playing in the national team are products of long-term investment which was undertaken before independence. But the products of the work we have done in recent years are seen in our 14 and 15-year-olds, of whom the standard is very high."
Government-funded training facilities and investment has been the bedrock of Lithuania's development and the country has started to make its name as an exporter of talent. Around half of the squad play overseas, including four Hearts players – Saulius Mikoliunas, Deividas Cesnauskis, Marius Zaliukas and Edgaras Jankauskas, who is the country's most famous export, but will miss out tonight through injury.

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FIFA World Ranking : Dominican Republic plan for the future 2

The sport that enjoys huge popular appeal is baseball, unsurprising given that more than a hundred Dominican peloteros are presently lighting up the Big Leagues in the USA. After that comes basketball, volleyball, athletics, and only then football. "Although that's the reality," says Guzmán, "in Venezuela, another country with a huge baseball culture, football has made inroads. I believe it will happen here too."

Support and encouraging signs
Local officials, working tirelessly to accelerate the growth of football in the Dominican Republic, have found an ally and helping hand in FIFA. In 2005, under the auspices of FIFA's Com-Unity Programme, delegates agreed on the need for better marketing and communication initiatives to develop the sport. Speaking at the time, Guzmán said: "This (programme) will mark a watershed in the history of our football."

Early signs of progress can be seen in the development of the national U-20 side, who have just qualified for the second phase of the CONCACAF qualifying tournament for the FIFA U-20 World Cup to be held in Canada next year. Particularly impressive have been Kerbi Rodríguez and Jonathan Fana, two talented youngsters with bright futures. Unfortunately, the team's success has generated little interest in the local media.

Current national team coach Ljubomir Crnokrak is also aware of what the sport is up against. "It's clear that we lack financial resources, but these youngsters have real quality. The potential for Dominican football is enormous. Yet for all of that, the papers give us no coverage. Even one or two lines a week would be an additional motivation for the players," said the Croat.

Despite a lack of friendlies, the Quisqueyanos are confidently looking ahead to the Copa Caribe Digicel 2007, which serves as the qualifying tournament for the CONCACAF Gold Cup USA 2007. In their first-round Group C games, scheduled for 26-30 September, the team will take on Bermuda (http://25worldcountry.blogspot.com/
), the British Virgin Islands (167th) and the US Virgin Islands (193rd). To keep their qualifying dreams alive, they must finish among the top two. Long term, though, their goal remains a historic first appearance at the 2014 FIFA World Cup.

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FIFA World Ranking : Dominican Republic plan for the future 1

For some nations, moving up the FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking to position number 171 would be of little significance. But for all those working to help the beautiful game grow in the Dominican Republic, the news is encouraging, particularly for those dreaming of one day seeing their beloved Quisqueyanos at the finals of a FIFA World Cup™.

The President of the Dominican Football Federation (DFF), Osiris Guzmán, has said on numerous occasions: "If Haiti can reach the World Cup, then we can too." It was thus in 2004, after the national team had crashed out of the qualifiers for Germany 2006 at the hands of eventual finalists Trinidad and Tobago, that Guzmán laid the foundation stone of a ten-year plan aimed at qualifying for the 2014 FIFA World Cup.

Teething troubles
One of the main problems with football in the Caribbean nation is that it is a relatively new sport and still to flourish at grassroots level. With the DFF founded as recently as 1953 and only affiliated to FIFA in 1959, it was not until 1965 that football reached the schools and playing grounds of the Dominican Republic, thanks in the main to the efforts of Fortunato Quispe Mendoza. From an infrastructure standpoint, it was also Mendoza who established the various playing categories and set up the country's first division championship.

In spite of these efforts, today football remains the country's fifth most popular sport. As well as being a relatively new discipline for the Dominicans, efforts to nurture the sport have not been helped by the lack of success of the national team, who have still to qualify for any tournament of significance at either senior or youth level, and a national league that struggles to attract a viewing audience or fan base.

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FIFA World Ranking : Player of the Day

Player of the Day
Andrea Pirlo - such cultured skills emanating from midfield
It caused barely a ripple in Italy’s assured stride. Their passes were sticking, their tackles hitting home. Andrea Pirlo and Gennaro Gattuso had established command of midfield while down the right Gianluca Zambrotta and Camoranesi combined impressively.

It was Camoranesi’s persistence and tight control near the touchline that forced the corner that yielded the 19th-minute equaliser. Pirlo’s delivery was inch-perfect and Materazzi powered his header home.

Just at that moment the sun had reappeared from behind a cloud to throw light on Italy’s spirited recovery and stoke up the temperatures inside the arena. Henry began to emerge as a key performer, seemingly impossible to shrug off the ball, and that also brought the best out of the dynamic newcomer Frank Ribery.

France came close on several occasions and in extra time Zidane would have scored with a header had Buffon not denied him. The night was soon to take an even more devastating turn for Zizou, a moment of madness ensuring that his retirement began at least nine minutes earlier than it should have done.

Goal of the Day
Fabio Grosso - such coolness under pressure
Trezeguet’s miss meant that as Grosso stepped up for the long walk from the half-way line the world was in his hands. A no-nonsense left-foot strike into the right-hand corner of the net underlined the contribution the Palermo defender has made to the Italian cause this past month. After a gap of 24 years they were world champions once more.
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FIFA World Ranking : Moment of the Day

Mauro Camoranesi consoles David Trezeguet There was irony in the failure of Trezeguet whose penalty – France's second - crashed against the crossbar and refused to cross the line. It was Trezeguet who struck the Golden Goal when the sides met in the final of UEFA EURO 2000 and left a scar that Italy had waited six long years to heal.
Trezeguet's pain now mirrored that of the famed Italians, Franco Baresi and Roberto Baggio, who had missed in 1994 and handed the FIFA World Cup to Brazil in the first, and hitherto only, penalty shoot-out in the Final. At the end his Juventus team-mate Mauro Camoranesi went to him and hugged him in sympathy.

What a start we had with Thierry Henry’s first touch resulting in a heavy collision with Cannavaro. As he lay prostrate France wondered if their hopes were about to be stilled as well. The stretcher was called but their three-goal marksman was able to continue.

Henry’s next involvement was to head on Fabien Barthez’s long kick, prompting Florent Malouda to accelerate into the heart of the Italian rearguard where Materazzi brought him down. Zidane’s seventh-minute penalty was nonchalant, a featherweight chip coming down off the underside bar and only just over the line.

At a stroke Zidane joined the list of players to have scored in more than one FIFA World Cup Final - a list that also includes Pele, Vava and Paul Breitner.
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