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« Reply #150 on: July 17, 2014, 09:52:52 AM »
In fairness, the FIFA ranking system has always been awful.
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« Reply #151 on: July 17, 2014, 05:25:27 PM »
Don't worry though. Los Campeones will be back in their proper spot on the FIFA ranks soon enough.
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« Reply #152 on: July 18, 2014, 12:19:37 PM »
« Edited: July 18, 2014, 12:28:05 PM by A.G. Snowstalker »
Speaking of North America in general, is it time to shake up continental representation a bit for the next World Cup? I'd take one slot from the AFC and give it to CONCACAF or CONMEBOL to start off, and merge the OFC and AFC.
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« Reply #153 on: July 19, 2014, 07:27:51 PM »
16 UEFA
8 CAF
6 CONMEBOL
5 AFC (swallows up OFC)
5 CONCACAF

Let's face it, Asia is not very good at football.
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« Reply #154 on: July 21, 2014, 08:11:21 AM »
Quote from: Tetro Kornbluth on July 21, 2014, 08:08:52 AM
Less than half of UEFA's qualifiers have made it through the group stage in the last two world cups  (6/13 both times). The days in which the likes of Denmark can automatically be thought of as better to the US or South Korea are well over.

In fairness, South Korea is an awful team whose popularity with the refs took away our rightful World Cup in 2002.

As for Russia, that can be blamed on Capello being a godawful coach and Akinfeev's mistake.
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« Reply #155 on: July 22, 2014, 09:49:40 AM »
For a 32-team tournament:

16 Europe
5.5 South America
3.5 North America
4.5 Africa
2.5 Asia (incl. Oceania)
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