FIFA Rankings: Bermuda Moves Up To 102nd
Bermuda continues to move up in the FIFA World Rankings and are now 102th in the latest rankings released earlier this week by FIFA – the world governing body of football.
In August 2012, Bermuda was ranked 120th. The last time Bermuda was ranked as high as 102nd was in 1994.
Spain is ranked in first place, while the Turks and Caicos, Bhutan, Montserrat and San Marino are ranked the lowest in 206th place.
364 5
98 Zimbabwe 358 8
99 Togo 356 0
100 Kuwait 348 -4
101 Antigua and Barbuda 340 -1
102 Bermuda 333 18
103 Dominican Republic 332 15
103 Sudan 332 1
105 Saudi Arabia 328 -1
106 Luxembourg 326 4
107 Azerbaijan 324 1
107 Equatorial
Antigua right above us, DR just below us……depressing. I say cut all government funding until we’re in the top 50 again, 70′s style
Idiot
Not sure you could be more assinine – beyond response.
However I will leave you with something relevant – like aiming for the top 10 CONCACAF:
World Zone Team
21 1 Mexico
33 2 USA
50 3 Panama
60 4 Jamaica
66 5 Costa Rica
67 6 El Salvador
72 7 Honduras
73 8 Canada
77 9 Haiti
82 10 Trinidad and Tobago
91 11 Guatemala
101 12 Antigua and Barbuda
102 13 Bermuda
you callin me assinine? I guess you weren’t around when BDA easily beat ALL of the teams you’ve listed in CONCACAF…..now a good girls college team can man-handle your local talent.
Yes assinine
You are talking about darn near 40 years ago. In the intervening period we have invested virtually nothing while other nations have worked hard to improve their infrastructure and methods. For example Trinidad has had a $25m technical facility since 1999. We didn’t get around to thinking about this until 2008 and are still trying to find the funds to build it.
The senior team of 40 years ago just like now at the youth level (up to say u12) had indiviual ability that allowed them to appear to be competitive as a group. Given how our rivals have progressed, this ceases to provide an advantage from u12 up – even against good ladies’ teams. If you have watched womens football at the highest level then it would only add to the idiocy of your comments.
Lest you decide to rail against the $15 “spent” on football..the actual amount provided was about 1/3 of that and most of those funds when to the costs of running an expanded program as opposed to genuine investment.
So again a realistic goal would be to get (and stay) in the top ten in our region with the ability to get surprise results here and there.
Frank
Yeah whatever, all I know that the 70s and early 80s national teams achieved a lot more with much much less financial support. It looks like there is little being achived now days with a lot more financial support thrown at it, no matter your perspective on the amount of financial support. My main point is, If you’ve got little bare-foot Brazilian kids kicking an old leather ball around on a beach or in the dirt, and 9 out of 10 of them look like little Caca and Ronaldos, why can’t we sucessfully develop our youth that have similar promising talent(with or without lots of money)….it seems the wheels fall off when our youth become young adults
I just gave a rationale of why that was/is. Guess reading is not your strong point.
Indeed you have actually made (and ignored) probably the most important point.
Because football is a team game you need, at each age group, 16 to 20 players playing at a high level to make a mark.
Population of Brazil? Circa 200m. With that many people, stars will emerge – with no investment – by sheer weight of numbers.
Population of Bermudians? Circa 40k. To get a group of 16-20 players all playing at a high standard, CONISTENTLY, takes a serious and committed program and infrastucture.
Frank
yeah, I guess the individual talent of the 70s and 80s somehow managed to ‘play at a high standard CONSISTANTLY’ without ‘a serious and committed program and infrastructure’ by or thru(you finish it since you know so much)……oops your we’ren’t around back then so you wouldn’t have the answer….just excuses. Maybe Herbie or Andrew would give you their honest opinion
The 70′s have come and gone. Even top nations as Brazil, Holland and England are finding it difficult to compete. Bermuda must stop talking about the 70′s and face reality! The USA, Canada and even some of our sister islands did not invest the time and funding in football until the early 90′s. As we can note, since the 1994 World Cup in the US, we have been unable to compete due to three core components:
1. Funding
2. The high cost of living which makes our players choose between overtime work and training
3. Social issues and gangs that have made our young men afraid to travel outside their safe zones and continues to decrease the number of talented and eligible male players in our league.
We need to look to the future, record the past and build to 2018 and beyond.
Cal