Rankings soccer an analysis before and after FIFA World Cup 2010 over

After World cup end world ranking as well changed according teams performance during world cup matched. Spain and Netherlands as expected spotted top of the rank after finished the campaign until reached final match. Prior to that Spain was second rank and jump to first rank after the games end as well as Netherlands mover 2 step to spot second rank.

However Brazil was first rank prior to the tournament drop to third rank after lost to Netherlands in Quarter finals. Germany as well raise to fifth rank after finished the campaign in third place. It had scored 16 goals during the campaign and it was the highest team scored most.

New Zealand, South Africa, Paraguay, Japan and Uruguay were the most mover step in world ranking after raise 24, 17, 15, 13 and 10 steps respectively. Although the most successful team beside the champions was Uruguay when finished fourth place. It was the major victory since 1970 when also finished fourth place.

The worst movers after the game end were Cameroon, France and Nigeria with drop of 21, 12 and 9 step respectively. Cameroon had lost all matches and finished bottom of the group. It was the worst record they had finished ever since 1982.

Italy former 2006 champions also had been punished with their bad performance when lost 202 point in world ranking table. The point makes them drop 6 steps from fifth rank to eleven ranks. It was the worst record in their history since 1974 and they also finished this edition without won any games for first time ever.

		After WC	Before WC	+/- movers
1	Spain	1	2	1	Final
2	Netherlands	2	4	2	Final
3	Brazil	3	1	-2	Qfinal
4	Germany	4	6	2	Sfinal
5	Argentina	5	7	2	Qfinal
6	Uruguay	6	16	10	Sfinal
7	England	7	8	1	Round16
8	Portugal	8	3	-5	Round16
9	Chile	10	18	8	Round16
10	Italy	11	5	-6	Group
11	Greece	12	13	1	Group
12	USA	13	14	1	Round16
13	Serbia	13	15	2	Group
14	Paraguay	16	31	15	Qfinal
15	Switzerland	18	24	6	Group
16	Slovenia	19	25	6	Round16
17	Australia	20	20	0	Group
18	France	21	9	-12	Group
19	Ghana	23	32	9	Qfinal
20	Mexico	24	17	-7	Round16
21	Côte d'Ivoire	26	27	1	Group
22	Slovakia	27	34	7	Group
23	Denmark	29	36	7	Group
24	Nigeria	30	21	-9	Group
25	Japan	32	45	13	Round16
26	Algeria	33	30	-3	Group
27	Cameroon	40	19	-21	Group
28	Korea Republic	44	47	3	Round16
29	Honduras	46	38	-8	Group
30	New Zealand	54	78	24	Group
31	South Africa	66	83	17	Group
32	Korea DPR	103	105	2	Group

FIFA World Cup 2010 Summary : Portugal

Portugal was finished at Round 16 after defeated by the eventual champions Spain. In group stages they were pooled with Brazil, Ivory Coast and North Korea. The group later on knows as group of death in FIFA World Cup 2010 however Portugal managed to qualify to next round when finished second behind Brazil.

Portugal glimpsed to round 16 when trashed North Korea in vast scored 7-0 after poor performance in their first game with Ivory Coast when draws goalless. Final games in Group G they only draw with Brazil and it was enough going through round 16. However in round 16 they end up their fortune when vanished to Spain 1-0.

Portugal had eligible to South Africa by play off matches with beating Bosnia-Herzegovina 2-0 in aggregated. Before that they finished second in Group 2 of Europe qualifiers stages behind Denmark with differences of two points. Their top scorers in qualifiers were Simao Sabrosa and Nani with four and three goals respectively. Conversely their regular players during qualifiers were Pepe, Ricardo Carvalho, Raul Meireles, Deco, Nani and Simoa Sabrosa had played over 10 matches.

During FIFA World Cup 2010 Portugal ironically only managed to score 7 goals against North Korea and concede 1 goal to Spain in Round 16. Tiago become their top scorer when scored two goals even though he not scores any goal in qualifiers stages.

It was fifth appearances in FIFA World cup after third consecutive time. Their best achievement was back to FIFA World Cup 1966 when finished third and Eusebio was top scorer of the tournament with nine goals. They had to wait about 20 years to appearance back in FIFA World Cup 1986 but only finished round 1. Started FIFA World Cup 2002 they managed to qualify consecutive for three times until this years. In mean time their greatest success was finished fourth in FIFA World Cup 2006.

FIFA World Cup 2010 : England – three lions

England was finished in round 16 when lost to Germany 1-4. England pool in Group C consists of USA, Algeria and Slovenia but struggling to take a place in round 16. In first game they draw with USA 1-1 and continuing draws with Algeria 0-0 in second game. Fortunately they win their last game over Slovenia to qualify in round 16.

During qualifiers they qualify in FIFA World Cup 2010 without predicament when finished top of Group 6 with 9 wins and 1 lose. Wayne Rooney become to scorer with 9 goals. Frank Lampard, David Beckham and Wayne Rooney are regular players with take part in over 9 matches.

England fail to show up what they have in qualifiers when in FIFA World Cup 2010 they only manage 1 win, 2 draws and 1 lose. They score only 3 goals from each of Steven Gerrard, Jermain Defoe and Matt Upson and 5 goals against.

It was 13th appearance in FIFA World Cup. The best achievement came on FIFA World Cup 1966 when win over West Germany in extra time 4-2. After that their best achievement is fourth place in FIFA World Cup 1990. In UEFA European Championship the best achievement are third place in 1968 and Semi-finals in 1996.