We shall give you monthly updates on team rankings by FIFA as well as keep track on managers of teams who made it to the world cup.
The big winners for team rankings include Italy (+11), Germany (+10), Argentina (+6) and England (+5) while the big losers were Mexico (-14) and USA (-11).
Below is the screenshot of the ranking I have prepared:
Part 1: Top 1 – 20
Part 2: Top 20 – 40
The status of team managers are listed below:
Managers who are keeping their jobs until the next international competition are:
Angola: Luis Oliviera Goncalves (up to 2006)
Czech Republic: Karel Bruckner (up to Euro 2008)
France: Raymond Domenech
Netherlands: Marco van Basten – (up to Euro 2008)
Spain: Luis Aragones – (up to Euro 2008)
Sweden: Lars Lagerback – (up to Euro 2008)
Croatia: Zlatko Kranjcar
Ecuador: Luis Fernando Suarez
Portugal: Luiz Felipe Scolari (until Euro 2008)
Paraguay: Anibal Ruiz
Saudi Arabia: Marcos Paqueta
Switzerland: Koebi Kuhn
Togo: Otto Pfister
Tunisia: – Roger Lemerre
Ukraine: Oleg Blokhin
Managers whose status is shaky:
Argentina: Jose Pekerman – Argentinian FA has not accepted his resignation yet.
Brazil: Carlos Alberto Parreira – his failure in World Cup 2006 should kick him out the door.
Ghana: Ratomir Dujkovic – their recent performance should give Ratomir some hope.
Managers who are no longer part of the team:
still without replacement
Costa Rica: Alexandre Guimares has resigned.
Iran: Branko Ivankovic has resigned.
Ivory Coast: Henri Michel has resigned.
Japan: Zico has resigned.
Korea: Dick Advocaat has resigned.
Mexico: Ricardo La Volpe has resigned.
USA: Bruce Arena was kicked out.
Serbia & Montenegro: Ilija Petkovic has resigned.
with replacement
Germany: Jürgen Klinsmann has resigned because of family matters and is replaced by Joachim Löw.
England: Sven Goran Eriksson has long declared he was leaving the team and is replaced by Steve McLaren.
Italy: Marcelo Lippi has resigned and was replaced by Roberto Donadoni.
Poland: Pawel Janas has resigned and replaced by Leo Beenhakker.
transferees
Australia: Guus Hiddink transferred as coach of Russia.
Trinidad & Tobago: – Leo Beenhakker has transferred to Poland.
[tags]FIFA World Cup, World Cup, FIFA World Cup 2006, Germany, FIFA, FIFA Rankings[/tags]
