By IVES GALARCEP
The U.S. Men’s National Team didn’t play any games in April, which might be why the team managed to slip a place in the latest FIFA World Rankings.
The U.S. dropped one spot to No. 29, a dip precipitated by a three-spot climb from Nigeria, which was still receiving a boost from its African Cup of Nations triumph earlier in the year.
There was little activity in the rankings, with the top 13 remaining the same. Mexico did drop two spots to 16 after ‘El Tri’s’ scoreless draw vs. Peru last month.
What do you think of the last rankings?
Share your thoughts below.
Ditto to the above comments. Didn’t we just get an update a mere month or two ago for the USMNT?
FIFA rankings are updated monthly, even if not much has happened.
The next release date is June 6th. I wonder how high we’ll jump after we beat Belgium and Germany?
I blame Landon for this.
Greece being as high as 13 is almost as ridiculous as Brazil being at 19. At least the Brazil ranking can be explained no WCQs.
Greece had a decent-ish Euro. But yes, I find it ridiculous how highly ranked teams can be who didn’t even play in the last World Cup. But, a good June/good Gold Gup will be just the shot of deer antler spray that our team needs.
Don’t worry. We’ll jump up ten spots once the sponsors realize we’ve qualified.
The USNT being unactive does worries a bit.
Me fail English?
Unpossible!
“which might be why the team managed to slip a place in the latest FIFA World Rankings.”
Might? Is. You know how the rankings formula works, so why suggest there’s other reasons we could have slipped.
Chill dude, people on here are way too critical of Ives. He does a really good job for us US fans of putting all the info we need to know in one site (National Team, MLS, Europe), he also has an awesome podcast.
You’re just an Ives fan boy. I mean, you read his blog everyday!
Ohhh chitown. You and your angst.
To be fair, shouldn’t the explanation be that other teams gained points? Or that the weights of points from previous games changed because another month has passed, which favored some teams over others? It’s not QUITE as simple as the US didn’t play any games.
Ives, this site is awesome. Don’t worry about nitpicking like the above comment.
Thanks. Never get too upset about random comments, but some folks have a track record of negative comments in general. Something that doesn’t do much to foster a healthy environment for conversation.
Some people should remember commenting is a privilege, not a right. Someone’s about to be reminded of that.
Ouch
As someone once sang “I have the POWER!”
I think there are many of us regular readers that are sick of the negativity regularly posted by certain individuals. Thanks Ives for stepping in to do something about it.
Somebody getting a timeout?
We’re lulling the rest of the world into a false sense of security before we unleash the fury in 2014.
Sounds like you are talking about Brazil.
Anything less than a World Cup title would be insulting to those uniforms.
haha, very true. Good thing the jerseys won’t take it personally
I really like that crest… I hope USSF stays with it going forward.
I saw that USA Rugby has taken the crest as well on some if their shirts.
Yawn.
Yawn x 2.
Was there even a FIFA sanctioned international fixture date last month? If not, what the heck is the point of updating the rankings when national teams aren’t allowed to call up their best players?