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For those of you interested how the ranking is calculated. From FIFA.com...

Unfortunatley WC 94 was more then 8 years ago and is not counted in the rankings. France 98 is alos pretty far in the past. Clearly, WC 2002 should have the most weight. The FIFA rankings are not unfair. They lack the capacity to be unfair. There is no opninon of individual teams invloved...

I don't think anyone is arguing that Mexico, Turkey, England or the US are historically better then Italy, they simply aren't. As bad as the rankings are, they should not be based on 2 World Cup victories in the 1930s. If past results mattered that much, Hungary and Uruguay would be atop the...

I think the ratings do have some value. If you look at them as more like global standings then rankings, they are pretty accurate (ie, which nations have had the best 8 years, wighted towards the present). I look at the ratings as more of a tier thing anyway. Teams 1-5 are the best, teams...

The FIFA rankings are not an "instant look" at what are the best teams at this moment. These rankings do not mean that the 5th team should beat the 6th team, the 8th team should beat the 10th team, etc. The FIFA rankings are based 100% on a mathmatical formula of matches over the past 8...