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Originally Posted by Locke
Pretty much, but the rankings will always be there. To be fair, they just totally reworked the ranking system to make it even more wildly unpredictable and irrelevant.
That just proves Sowa's point, and it is a good point. South Africa would tear Canada apart if they both fielded their best teams. Canada gets huge breaks because we play against 2-3rd line Squads. Jumping 38 spots because we posted wins against Costa Rica and Haiti? What about Losing to Guadalupe. Armenia jumped 48 spots for beating Poland 1-0?
Those rankings are wildly inaccurate.
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not to nitpick, but they also tied venezuela 2-2, and the loss to guadalupe doesn't factor in to the fifa world rankings because they are not a recognized nation within FIFA, so effectively, they were 2 wins and a draw.