Switzerland seeded for the World Cup ?

[T soprano]

Really, how does that work then Switzerland are amongst the top 8 seeds also along with Columbia & Belguim
Plus although they've not even qualified yet Uruguay will also be seeded instead of Holland if they beat JORDAN over 2 legs
Well I suppose if FIFA can give Quatar the World Cup anything is possible
So ENGLAND, ITALY & HOLLAND won't be seeded

 

[16bha]

Obviously gave FIFA a rent reduction on their HQ

 

[El Sid]

Better chocolate and trains

 

[terryberry1]

Because Blatter is a swiss ****

 

[Easy 10]

Belgium fair enough. But I had to do a DOUBLE TAKE at Switzerland and bloody Columbia being seeded.

I just hope we're drawn into one of their groups. At least we'll be able to simply breeze through against these two-bob nations, like we usually do.

Ahem.

 

[Deleted member 18477]

The seedings have always been a joke...

 

[easynow]

Fifa's ranking system is bullshit and Fifa is also based in Switzerland...

 

[T soprano]

If it's done on current form that's crap because Uruguay have to be in a play off to Qualify

 

[sparkie]

To be honest it's good to avoid Holland and Italy.

All the teams in pots 2-4 will want to be in the Swiss 'group of life'.

 

[HawkTheSeagull]

Its to do with the rankings.

In comparison, France are 21st - although no one cares, mainly because its France.

 

[US Seagull]

Yeah, the Uruguay thing is really stupid. It's because they decided to base it only on the FIFA rankings released today and as everybody outside of FIFA knows, the FIFA ranking are also really, really stupid.

 

[Baron Pepperpot]

I have a feeling we may be placed to avoid a European top seed to ensure we don't end up with three European sides in our group, as would be possible.

 

[pasty]

FIFA rankings / seedings are a complete joke. There was a great quote from Woy in the Torygraph today....

When I was called to the FIFA office when I was working for Switzerland in 1993 and told we were the second best team in the world, I lost all interest in seedings from that moment

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Belgium fair enough. But I had to do a DOUBLE TAKE at Switzerland and bloody Columbia being seeded.

I just hope we're drawn into one of their groups. At least we'll be able to simply breeze through against these two-bob nations, like we usually do.

Ahem.

Columbia? So much for the United States

 

[HastingsSeagull]

When I was called to the FIFA office when I was working for Switzerland in 1993 and told we were the second best team in the world, I lost all interest in seedings from that moment

Sums it up in post above yeah...... so how many 1/4 or semis have they made in last 12 years? What massive nations did they spank repeatidly in qualifying? Points must come from somewhere?

We will play Brazil in opening match, bank on it

 

[T soprano]

We will play Brazil in opening match, bank on it

Like the sound of that as long as Honduras & Iran are in the same group so an easier passage to Last 16

 

[T soprano]

Its to do with the rankings.

In comparison, France are 21st - although no one cares, mainly because its France.

FIFA rankings - the reason Switzerland are so high is because they've won loads of games in an Easier qualifying group, it's farcical


Rnk Team Pts +/- Pos
1 Spain 1513 0
2 Germany 1311 1
3 Argentina 1266 -1
4 Colombia 1178 1
5 Belgium 1175 1
6 Uruguay 1164 1
7 Switzerland 1138 7
8 Netherlands 1136 1
8 Italy 1136 -4
10 England 1080 7
11 Brazil 1078 -3
12 Chile 1051 4
13 USA 1040 0
14 Portugal 1036 -3
15 Greece 983 -3
16 Bosnia-Herzegovina 925 2
17 Côte d'Ivoire 917 2
18 Croatia 901 -8
19 Russia 874 -4
20 Ukraine 871 6
21 France 870 4
22 Ecuador 862 -2
23 Ghana 860 1
24 Mexico 854 -3
25 Sweden 850 -3
26 Denmark 824 -3
27 Czech Republic 783 5
28 Serbia 778 15
29 Romania 767 2
30 Slovenia 752 -1

FFS, Switzerland are seeded higher than Brazil

 

[pasty]

FIFA rankings - the reason Switzerland are so high is because they've won loads of games in an Easier qualifying group, it's farcical

That's the big issue with their ranking system. You would have thought it not beyond the realms of possibility to work out some kind of equation that takes the ranking of your opponent into consideration. As I understand it, we would have got the same ranking points for beating Poland and Montenegro as we got for beating San Marino.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Didn't Switzerland beat Spain in South Africa?

 

[T soprano]

Didn't Switzerland beat Spain in South Africa?

Then lost 1-0 to Chile & drew 0-0 with Honduras which meant they were eliminated at the group stages