[arivanjj]

Italy have jumped over Brazil to lead the FIFA World Rankings for the first time since November 1993.

The Azzurri have brought the Selecao’s 55-month run as leaders to an end after the South American nation lost 2-0 to Portugal last week.

The World Cup winners were scheduled to play a friendly with Romania seven days ago, but the match was cancelled after rioting fans in Catania killed a policeman following a Serie A match.

There are no other changes in the top five with Argentina, France and Germany all trailing Brazil in second. Spain have returned to the top 10 for the first time since October last year.

The next FIFA World Rankings will be published on March 14, 2007.

Top 10
1 (2) Italy – 1,562 points
2 (1) Brazil – 1,540
3 (3) Argentina – 1,535
4 (4) France – 1,496
5 (5) Germany – 1,359
6 (6) England – 1,330
7 (7) Netherlands – 1,312
8 (9) Portugal – 1,262
9 (10) Czech Republic – 1,193
10 (12) Spain – 1,161

[han2503]

Considering what Materazzi said to him, I'm suprised Zidane didn't headbutt him in the face instead of the chest.

I have yet to see Henry fall in the penalty area without getting back on his feet to keep playing unless he really is fouled.
Del Piero keeps lying only until he knows he is getting a penalty/free kick.

If you just watch an EPL match that envolves Arsenal you can see what I mean. Henry is a diver.

What Del Piero does doesn't come into this. Everyone knows that he is a diver. But did he dive to get Italy to the next stage of the competition?

Italy was the best team while France had the best individual... but neither him can defeat time.

Very true.

And last time I checked football was a team sport. This isn't tennis (IMG:http://cyrus.medialayer.net/~m1ke/milanfan.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif)

This post has been edited by han2503: Feb 14 2007, 05:59 PM

[LaPalma]

If you just watch an EPL match that envolves Arsenal you can see what I mean. Henry is a diver.

What Del Piero does doesn't come into this. Everyone knows that he is a diver. But did he dive to get Italy to the next stage of the competition?

Italy was the best team while France had the best individual... but neither him can defeat time.

Very true.

And last time I checked football was a team sport. This isn't tennis (IMG:http://cyrus.medialayer.net/~m1ke/milanfan.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif)

Diver or not? Does it really matter? Italy won the WC. Everything else is worthless in the end. Maybe they were lucky against the Aussies, but against Ukraine, they were obviously the better team....And a squad that beats Germany (yes...they deserved to win (IMG:http://cyrus.medialayer.net/~m1ke/milanfan.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/sad.gif) ) in their own country in a stadium with 70.000 germans supporting their side really deserves to win the WC!

[bigmacmtl]

[QUOTE]Very true.

And last time I checked football was a team sport. This isn't tennis (IMG:http://cyrus.medialayer.net/~m1ke/milanfan.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif)

[/quote]
Diver or not? Does it really matter? Italy won the WC. Everything else is worthless in the end. Maybe they were lucky against the Aussies, but against Ukraine, they were obviously the better team....And a squad that beats Germany (yes...they deserved to win (IMG:http://cyrus.medialayer.net/~m1ke/milanfan.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/sad.gif) ) in their own country in a stadium with 70.000 germans supporting their side really deserves to win the WC![/QUOTE]

i must ur a good sport about losing and thats good. but when it cam to asutralia, italy was in full control until materazzi got that "red"(which we all know was garbage), so australia was lucky enough to play half of the game with a man up (and they barely created one chance). then grosso's penalty...but watch this replay

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2PgG8j0gyQ

You can see neils left arm clips grossos left foot, and his right arm clips grosso right foot. you can see it's more a matter of grosso hitting neil, well that heppens because of neils reckless dive in front of him.

This post has been edited by bigmacmtl: Feb 14 2007, 11:18 PM

[arivanjj]

Maybe they were lucky against the Aussies

(IMG:http://cyrus.medialayer.net/~m1ke/milanfan.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/sad.gif) .. yes they were lucky.. i mean Australia were a very physical side.. and the game could've gone either way had it gone to extra-time,

but i do believe that it was the right call on the penalty.. it wasn't the honrable thing to do by Grosso, but he decided to run into Neil and make it a proffesional foul.