FIFA World Rankings has changed anew to reflect the results in the just concluded Copa America.
The FIFA ranking is in favor of Brazil and Argentina as their Copa America stint managed to trick the computations while Italy, France and Germany are drinking beers and chilling out awaiting their next game for the Uefa Euro 2008 qualifier.
Just look at this happy portrait of Brazil winning Copa America 2007. It was a come from behind victory but nevertheless, they would only remembered as the winners in Venezuela.
Image source from ESPN
Argentina lost to Brazil in 2004 via penalties. Argentina came to the finals with vengeance in their eyes looking to crush Brazil. People expected Argentina to win it all. In the end, Argentina went home getting beaten by Brazil.
Brazil was spectacular throughout the game finishing with 3 goals while Argentina never saw the ball behind the net.
Julio Baptisa came up with a back breaker by scoring very early in the game — 4th minute. Argentina captain Roberto Ayala helped Brazil extend the lead by scoring on his own goal before half-time and Brazilian Daniel Alves finishing off Argentina for good.
Brazil and Uruguay played another epic battle in the semi-final of Copa America 2007 Venezuela. It could be remembered that Brazil won against Uruguay in the same stage in the last Copa America going straight to winning the tournament.
It is a joy to watch two opposing philosophies slug it out in the game with Brazil playing beautiful football with grace dancing to Samba music; Uruguay on the other hand are the rugged boys using physical strength to outpower their opponents.
It looks like Dunga is getting favorable response from the polls run on the right side bar especially after Brazil’s win against Chile.
During the first run of the polls, Dunga could hardly get a positive vote; things have changed since then.
Go and vote for Dunga’s work ethic poll.
Filippo Raciti is a policeman who died in crowd violence at Sicily’s derby between Catania and Palermo. After the incident officials began checking stadia in Italy to verify their security systems and measures to ensure that games are safe.
Bari’s Stadio San Nicola where the qualifier between Scotland and Italy is going to be played on March 28 has been declared unsuitable to host spectators.
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We run a poll on the finals of the FIFA U-2o Women’s World Championship. The question run was Who’ll play in the Women’s World Championship Finals in Russia 2006?
The choice of answers were: Brazil vs China, Brazil vs USA, Korea DPR vs China PR, Korea DPR vs USA
The Poll results are as follows:
No one expected an all Asian finals in FIFA U-20 Women’s World Championship, furthermore, no one expected a Korea DPR title. Korea did not only win the finals but did it in a dominating approach finishing with a score of 5-0 where the first three came in the first half shocking the favorite team.
The image above from FIFA tells the story of two sides who competed for the finals.
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The loss of US Women’s World Championship became a redemption to Brazil in some way after their country lost in FIFA World Cup in Germany.
US controlled most of the game and looked like they will win a podium finish but Barbara of Brazil showed toughness in stopping goals all the way to the penalty shootout that helped them secure third place.
