U.S. Reaches All-Time High Seventh in FIFA World Rankings

US Soccer ^ | 7-7-04 | Some guy

[E Rocc]

Hey, if the US wins a world championship does the whole world start having to call the sport its real name ("soccer")? >:)

Eric

[Central Scrutiniser]

Good news for our guys, Poland on Sunday!

[SedVictaCatoni]

I've never understood why other countries want us to take up soccer. With the profound financial and athletic resources which the United States possesses, it would stand a serious threat to utterly dominate the sport of soccer if it actually devoted significant effort. What fun would that be?

[Plutarch]

I have the usual amount of interest in Soccer-- nil. However, for the U.S. team to do well would really bug the the anti-U.S. Euroweenie types. So go USA!!!

[saquin]

Ha! I feel the same way. How cool would it be if the U.S. won the World Cup in 2006? Just think, the U.S. winning the world championship in a sport the rest of the world lives and dies for and we couldn't care less about. The world, particularly the Eurotrash, would probably throw a collective temper tantrum.

[Vince Ferrer]

I agree. We don't need to be champions, although that would help. But I'd like it if we can routinely beat the French, Germans, and Mexico.

[Central Scrutiniser]

Soccer is a beautiful sport, the more you watch, the more you are hooked. Good to see our boys do well. I usually get some wrath when I am abroad, but I get the other nation's fans to reluctantly agree that we are only gonna get better and they are gonna eventually fall to us. Pisses them off big time!

[thoughtomator]

I'm on that same wavelength. Soccer bores the heck out of me (as a spectator, anyway), but it's not boring at all to watch the evil USA beat the pants off of haughty "football"-worshipping Euroweenies.

[Rahmulus]

My thoughts exactly, but when I mention this thought to the Euro types they scoff. Most of that is worry that I’m right and they know it. If some of the basketball players that are incredibly talented but have no chance to make it because they are too small. Or some of the DBs or Running backs every decided to take up soccer, look out. Can you imaging a Michael Jordon type player in goal. Tall, quick with that explosive vertical leap which would allow them to stop goals like no one before, and with a baseball background, picking out high speed soccer balls would be breeze.

I don’t know much about the sport, end up watching it a bit because I don’t really have a choice. Did really enjoy the world cup, people were getting real nervous when the US keep winning.

When it looked like the US might end up playing England, I was joking with a friend from there that the US could win. He stated, and he was not kidding, he would leave the country (Taiwan) rather than face the ribbing.

Why do they hate us? Because they fear our soccer team!

[Josh in PA]

The day US wins the World Cup (which is not far away), is the day you want to have your money invested in Eli Lilly, whose international Prozac sales will go 15x overnight.

[condi2008]

Thanks for the reminder. Not that the hardcores at my house would've let me forget.

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[condi2008]

Thanks for the reminder. Not that the hardcores at my house would've let me forget.

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[condi2008]

I hate it when that happens.

[jjbrouwer]

Yeah, right. America are really better than England, Italy, Argentina and Germany.

[jjbrouwer]

Hey, if the US wins a world championship does the whole world start having to call the sport its real name ("soccer")?

Nice idea, Eric but I don't think that's something the football world will have to worry about unduly.

America is most successful competing in "world series" where the rest of the world isn't invited. Or playing "sports" no one else is interested in, like the one that stops for commercial breaks every five minutes, in which padded-up fat people run into each other.

[dfwgator]

Must be the same people who do the BCS rankings for college football that do the FIFA rankings.

[jjbrouwer]

I assumed the rankings were assessed by the blind referee who disallowed England's winning goal against Portugal in the quarter finals.

[dfwgator]

Don't get me wrong, I would love it if the US was really that good, but I've watched them and I'm sorry, I just don't see it. They're certainly much better than before, but they don't look to me even to be in the same category as the elite teams. Sure they beat Mexico pretty much every time now, but Mexico is also badly overrated as well.

[jjbrouwer]

The USA team played very well in the last World Cup. They have some good players but I think it will be at least a decade before they are good enough to win a major tournament. And some of the so-called football minnows will be much-improved by then too so they will have some competition.

On the other hand, there is hope - who would have expected Greece to win the European Championships?