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Originally Posted by Cameron Swift
Still can't fathom how Wales were a #1 seed. Group D is pretty average.
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it's because the FIFA rankings really favor recent matches and in the past year they have beaten Belgium (ranked 2) and tied Bosnia (were 14th I think at the time) and Belgium (ranked 5 at the time)
http://www.fifa.com/fifa-world-ranki...men/index.html
that shows it, they gained 818 points last year the most of anyone