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ok, the one thing about that list is that it's based on games the teams have played. now this does not favour european teams as they face each other mostly, all the elite soccer nations are in europe, so this heavily favours soth american teams. my idea of how the world ranking really stands based on the players that combine the teams at the moment are;

1]holland [netherlands] the youngsters say it all
2]italy lacking a striker, but are solid everywhere else
3]argentina still the greatest s.american team
4]france still producing youngsters, out with the old
5]england best they've ever been imo
6]brazil still good, but not great
7]]sweden great form, still elite
8]czech rep. nedved, koller, rocinsky
9]denmark always great form, good team all round
10]usa some serious work has been done the past decade
11]spain will never achive anything with the whole basque thing
12]germany ....after a mediocre decade, they are coming back strong
13]ghana ...best african team without a doubt
14]japan ..representing asia
15]mexico ...always up there
16]portugal ...great players, but terrible team
17]rep.of ireland ..... who can deny them, they're almost unbeatable
18]paraguay ...has conquered s.america the past 4-5 years
19]greece ...not really, but the european cup and all
20]australia ...best australian team ever..seriously..this is not a fluke