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Post by Panda on Jun 4, 2006 18:41:04 GMT 1
Cheers mrh, guinea are that high, bizarre, thought zimbabwe had been at the world cup. No... Maybe you're confusing them with Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo) and their innovative way of defending free kicks in 1974...
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Post by Admin on Jun 4, 2006 19:02:07 GMT 1
Oh lol, yes, the guy that just ran at the brazilians, I think, before he kicked it
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Post by Panda on Jun 4, 2006 19:02:49 GMT 1
136 FIFA nations still yet to feature in a finals!. Near misses for teams who've never been in the finals: 2006 - Bahrain (lost play-off to Trinidad & Tobago) 2002 - Liberia finished a point behind Nigeria in qualifying group 1998 - Guinea finished a point behind Nigeria in qualifying group 1998 - Congo lost final game against South Africa when a win would have seen them qualify 1998 - Finland finished a point behind Hungary and a play-off place 1998 - Lithuania finished a point behind Ireland and a play-off place 1994 - Zambia finished a point behind Morocco in qualifying group 1990 - Qatar finished a point behind UAE in qualifying group 1986 - Libya lost to Morocco in final knockout round 1986 - Syria lost to Iraq in final knockout round
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Post by marcus on Jun 4, 2006 19:53:57 GMT 1
Finland wouldn't have beaten Yugosalvia in the play off anyway, as Hungary were trounced 6-0 by them in the first leg.
also, Ukraine lost to Solvenia in a play-off for 1998 and were billed by Kevin Keegan "The best team not in the world cup".
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Post by marcus on Jun 4, 2006 19:55:46 GMT 1
Oh lol, yes, the guy that just ran at the brazilians, I think, before he kicked it and the 9-0 loss to Yugoslavia and the healing towel! lol!. Also, the way they wouldn't keep in place against Scotland, and losing the houses and cars their dictator gave to them for reaching the finals!, was harsh tho!.
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Post by Panda on Jun 4, 2006 19:56:47 GMT 1
Also worth mentioning is India in 1950. They qualified (after all the other teams in their qualifying group withdrew) but didn't play in the finals because FIFA refused to let them play in bare feet.
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Post by paulgilb on Jun 4, 2006 20:01:26 GMT 1
It featured footage of their manager going into a temper smashing up the dressing room, and saying how bad it was they conceded 2 at half time to a team who have never won a world cup game before, with that being Bulgaria. Bulgaria reached the semis that year.
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Post by marcus on Jun 4, 2006 20:23:54 GMT 1
Yup, and Yordan Letchkov and Histro Stochkkov then of Barcelona made the history books! .
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Post by frag on Jun 5, 2006 14:27:16 GMT 1
It featured footage of their manager going into a temper smashing up the dressing room, and saying how bad it was they conceded 2 at half time to a team who have never won a world cup game before, with that being Bulgaria. Bulgaria reached the semis that year. Their win over Germany is one of the few games from the '94 world cup that i remember watching... Definitely not the first though, as I remember Ireland's group being so close (with Italy finishing 3rd in the group!)
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Post by marcus on Jun 5, 2006 21:44:12 GMT 1
They had a record of W1 D1 L1 F2 A2 PTS4, and went through on the old best 4 teams in 3rd place from each group rule. The loss was the infamous 1-0 against Rep Ireland and the Ray Haughton goal! . Yet they reached the final, during the days of the 3rd placed team going through, how many got this far?.
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Post by marcus on Jun 5, 2006 21:48:07 GMT 1
Oh!, and Argentina in 1990!
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Post by Admin on Jun 28, 2006 11:24:57 GMT 1
Looking forward to this being updated
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Post by Maximo Mark on Jun 28, 2006 11:26:42 GMT 1
Ukraine highest new entry then... Spain have caught up with France despite being knocked out by them!
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Post by frag on Jun 28, 2006 13:57:16 GMT 1
Holland sneaking into the top 10, and Sweden rising too, even though both were knocked out early. They were there, at least
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Post by Panda on Jun 29, 2006 19:35:34 GMT 1
There won't be much change at the top. 10 points so far for England, but they haven't closed the gap on Argentina. Ukraine will enter in the top 40 if they beat Italy.
Togo will be the lowest new entry but will still have 9 teams behind them in the table.
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Post by Panda on Jun 29, 2006 19:37:24 GMT 1
Oh!, and Argentina in 1990! Yes! Those were the only occasions it happened. That system was only in place from 1986 to 1994. Argentina won their group in '86 and the Germans finished 2nd in theirs, behind Denmark.
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Post by Panda on Jul 10, 2006 18:08:09 GMT 1
Updated table! (Pre-World Cup positions in brackets)
1(1) Brazil 206 points 2(2) Germany 184 3(3) Italy 151 4(4) Argentina 112 5(5) England 92 6(6) France 85 7(7) Spain 78 8(10) Sweden 61 9(12) Holland 58 10(8) Russia/USSR 57 11(9) Serbia/Yugoslavia 56 12(11) Uruguay 55 13(14) Poland 50 14(13) Hungary 48 15(15) Mexico 45 16(18) Czech Republic/Czechoslovakia 41 17(16) Austria 40 18(17) Belgium 39 19(23) Portugal 34 20(19) Romania 29 21(24) Switzerland 29 22(20) Chile 27 23(22) Paraguay 25 24(21) Denmark 23 25(25) USA 21 26(28) Croatia 20 27(26) Cameroon 19 28(27) Scotland 19 29(32) South Korea 19 30(29) Bulgaria 17 31(30) Turkey 16 32(31) Peru 15 33(33) Ireland 14 34(34) Northern Ireland 14 35(35) Nigeria 13 36(36) Colombia 11 37(38) Morocco 10 38(37) Costa Rica 10 39(39) Norway 9 40(51) Ecuador 9 41(40) Senegal 8 42(41) East Germany 8 43(42) Japan 8 44(44) Saudi Arabia 8 45(-) Ukraine 7 46(43) Algeria 7 47(47) Tunisia 7 48(45) Wales 6 49(-) Ghana 6 50(46) South Africa 6 51(57) Australia 5 52(50) Iran 5 53(48) North Korea 4 54(49) Cuba 4 55(-) Ivory Coast 3 56(52) Jamaica 3 57(53) Honduras 2 58(-) Angola 2 59(54) Israel 2 60(55) Egypt 2 61(56) Kuwait 1 62(-) Trinidad & Tobago 1 63(58) Bolivia 1 64(59) Iraq 0 65(60) Slovenia 0 66(-) Togo 0 67(61) Canada 0 68(62) Dutch East Indies 0 69(63) United Arab Emirates 0 70(64) China 0 71(65) New Zealand 0 72(66) Greece 0 73(67) Haiti 0 74(68) Zaire 0 75(69) El Salvador 0
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Post by Admin on Jul 10, 2006 21:54:46 GMT 1
Cheers mrh, look forward to this in 4 years, or have we got a diff one for the euros as well?
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