martes, 10 de abril de 2007

Semana de promociones

Ha concluido la temporada regular y es tiempo de las promociones. En la página de Posiciones puedes ver el resultado final de esta temporada y qué equipos están clasificados tanto para intentar ascender como para tratar de mantener su categoría.

Los partidos de promoción ya han sido programados y se pueden ver en la página de Promociones.

Buena suerte a todos los que están participando en esta instancia!


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domingo, 8 de abril de 2007

Grecia fuera del mundial!

World Champions, Ranked Number 1 in the world but not going to the World Cup. The Greek's have failed to qualify from European Group 2, we look at the reasons why.

Expectations Of A Nation

Former Greek NC bull7 took Greece further than they could have dreamed, perhaps fortunate with the likes of China and Sweden going out in the early stages of the knockout stages but they won all the matches put in front of them. He decided not to put himself up to be re-elected as Greek NC and the new manager would have to attempt to live up to the previous manager's achievements.

There was no landslide victory in the 2007 elections, the current manager jimbax76 winning by just 3 votes in the end. 178 people voted for his nearest rival vazelosss13 and that would mean his appointment wasn't going to be a massively popular one for his nearest opponent's followers. He would have to convince him as well as trying to qualify for the World Cup

Seeding

Several people expected Greece to qualify for the World Cup as holders, that would not going to be the case and their ranking of 11 when the draw was made put them into the second pot of the seedings. Had they been ranked 10th, they would have made the top seeding. That meant they could have been drawn with the likes of Netherlands, Sweden, England and their World Cup finalists, Poland.

European Group 2

Cyprus, Slovenia and Luxembourg weren't going to be massively difficult to beat. An ever improving Estonia and their World Cup finalists Poland would be the major pretenders to them qualifying for the 2007 World Cup.

Getting Poland in the opening match was the worst possible start, the new Greek manager would have to play the nation who most wanted to beat them in his first competitive match in charge. They lost 2-1. Then they played Estonia in their second match and lost that 3-2 away in Tallinn, they were faced an uphill struggle from that moment on.

Their 4-0 loss in Warsaw against Poland made the match against Estonia at home a must win match. They lost 3-2 again to Estonia and that meant they had to rely on results going their way for them to qualify.

Estonia's 5-0 win over Cyprus meant Greece's defence of their World Cup ended at the qualifying stage.

The reprecussions of their failure to reach the World Cup will only be felt after the World Cup has finished and their undoubted slip from the #1 World Ranking spot that would secure them a top seeding going into the European Qualifiers over the summer. They will be at least a second seed maybe even a third seed meaning another difficult qualification group.

If 2006 was Greece's most successful year, 2007 may become Greece's toughest year at International level.

/ZeFrenchy16
International Co-Ordinator


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viernes, 6 de abril de 2007

Primeros clasificados a la Copa del Mundo!

Solo tomó 7 partidos para que algunos países ocuparan una plaza para la Copa del Mundo en Mayo. El jueves se definirán más lugares pero 3 países que ya se han clasificado son:

Holanda (Grupo Europeo 1 - Ranking Mundial #5)
Estonia (Grupo Europeo 2 - Ranking Mundial #14)
Dinamarca (Grupo Europeo 8 - Ranking Mundial #18)

4 países más necesitan ganar o empatar el Jueves para tener su lugar.

Bélgica
Polonia
Portugal
China

Un punto para Portugal significaría dejar afuera a los Campeones Mundiales 2006 y números 1 en el ranking, Grecia. Argentina todavía está luchando en el 3er puesto de su grupo y el otro ganador de una Copa del Mundo se encuentra puntero del Grupo Europeo 7 y debería clasificarse en los próximos dos partidos (Suecia).


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lunes, 2 de abril de 2007

International Rankings - April 1, 2007

With 9 of the top 10 from February's ranking remaining in the top ten, with Spain dropping out and Belgium entering the top 10. The consistancy of MZ's top nations are paying dividends in this months rankings. The main change between this and February's ranking is that the ranking points gained from the 2004 World Cup has been taken out and the recent qualifiers have been factored in. Nations such as France (ranked 12, now 35th) Germany (ranked 17th, now 31st) and Scotland (ranked 30, now 44th) have taken a massive hit in their ranking after their points from their 2004 World Cup runs have been removed.

2006 World Champions, Greece taken over the number 1 spot. Not guaranteed a place in the 2007 Finals and currently lying 3rd, needing a win against Estonia on April 3 to have any chance of making it to the finals.

Positions 1-10

Previous ranking in Italic.

1. Greece(3)
2. Australia(6)
3. Poland(1)
4. Canada(7)
5. Netherlands(8)
6. Sweden(5)
7. Argentina(2)
8. Portugal(9)
9. England(3)
10. Belgium(13)

Switzerland, Brazil and China all break into this month's top 20 after excellent starts to their World Cup Qualifying campaign.

Positions 11-20

11. Switzerland
12. Brazil
13. Spain
14. Estonia
15. China
16. Italy
17. Hungary
18. Denmark
19. Norway
20. Czech Republic

The biggest climbers in this group of 10 is Israel's climb from 36th to 21st and Uruguay climbing from 37th to 23rd.

Positions 21-30

21. Israel
22. Romania
23. Uruguay
24. Lithuania
25. Ecuador
26. Latvia
27. Finland
28. Turkey
29. Iceland
30. Wales

With three of the top 20 nations in last months ranking now ranking below 30th, it goes to how a bad run of form can dramatically change your world ranking. Bulgaria's raise from 42nd to 36th being the biggest climb out of the 10 nations.

Positions 31-40

31. Germany
32. Austria
33. Indonesia
34. USA
35. France
36. Bulgaria
37. Mexico
38. Thailand
39. Egypt
40. Ireland

79th to 48th, that's how much a good qualifying campaign can affect your World Ranking. Malaysia were unranked and given the preliminary position of 79th and now break into the top 50. Scotland drop 14 places after their seeing their run to the last 16 in 2004 being taking out of the calculations.

Positions 41-50

41. Russia
42. Bolivia
43. Chile
44. Scotland
45. Peru
46. Colombia
47. MZ Country
48. Malaysia
49. Paraguay
50. India

With only 84 nations to this date scoring a ranking point, there is still 16 nations still to be ranked.

Positions 51-84

51. Saudi Arabia
52. South Africa
53. Jordan
54. Venezuela
55. Iran
56. Morocco
57. Tunisia
58. Lebanon
59. United Arab Emirates
60. Philippines
61. South Korea
62. FYR Macedonia
63. Singapore
64. Serbia
65. Northern Ireland
66. Pakistan
67. Slovenia
68. Guatemala
69. Moldova
70. Slovakia
71. Albania
72. Cyprus
73. Panama
74. Honduras
75. Malta
76. Croatia
77. Belarus
78. Luxembourg
79. Dominican Republic
80. El Salvador
81. Azerbaijan
82. Costa Rica
83. Bosnia and Hercegovina
84. Faroe Islands

The next International Ranking will be after all qualifying rounds for the 2007 World Cup have been completed.


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