yea for me its
1 - Canada
2 - Germany/Ireland/England/Scotland (lol)
6 - Australia
7-208 - meh
209 - 'merica
sorry but if Edmonton got a team in some sport calgary didn't, I would cheer against Edmonton...same applies
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1. The Netherlands (And Canada if I'm not at odds with the CSA.)
2. France/England
3. Denmark/Sweden/Germany
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207. Italy
208. Portugal
209. The States
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Oh yeah, Italy is also very low on my list, I'd say one small notch above Spain. England is pretty low too. Used to like them as a kid but as I grew up I saw how entitled English fans are and I relish in their mediocrity
1. Canada (although obviously not much to cheer for)
2/3. England/Netherlands
4-207. Everyone Else
208. USA
209. Spain
I follow EPL so know a lot of the English players which has recently made me cheer for them more. Plus Tottenham players playing for England recently also make it easier to cheer for them. I was in Holland during 92 Euro's and was the first experience I had with being around soccer fandom at that level so always liked them from that.
Spain is awfully boring to watch and their fans getting so over the top defensive and insulting if you don't think they are the greatest thing ever is obnoxious.
Hearing the overrating of the American team and especially players from ESPN has got on my nerves. Good for them for qualifying but a heads up ESPN soccer homers that in most people's eyes there isn't a big 3 of Messi, Ronaldo and Landon and Altidore is not right there with Van Persie, Zlatan and Falcao in terms of strikers.
1a. Poland (mom)
1b. Romania (dad) STILL GOT A CHANCE
3. Canada (cgy born and raised)
4. England (mostly because I listen to so many EPL podcasts from UK - you just know too much)
5. Italy (fun team to watch growing up)
6-209. Everybody else/indifferent
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1. Germany/Bahrain (Grew up there)/Canada
4. Netherlands
5-207 - Everyone Else
208 - Brazil (Disliked them after they beat Germany in 2002. Also most of my friends started supporting them because they were the champions, which I found shallow.)
209 - Spain
Not a big fan of Italy either, but don't mind a few players. USA is not a major factor at the global scale for me to care much either way.
the seeded teams in next year's World Cup will be: Brazil, Spain, Argentina, Germany, Italy, Colombia, Belgium and Uruguay
FIFA is insane, how can they not take into consideration past World Cup results and big matches. The formula for the FIFA rankings suck.
Colombia hasn't been to a World Cup since 1998, Belgium since 2002.
How can Holland, the World Cup FINALIST! not be seeded? Plus hasn't Holland swept their qualifying group and become the first European team to qualify? Holland are not seeded because they are losing friendlies?
Uruguay is currently 5th in their qualifying group.
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