World Football National Team Rankings: June 2009

With World Cup qual­i­fiers on the hori­zon FIFA has released its world rank­ings and that means World Cup Buzz released their own rank­ings as well. The big news was Nether­lands now in pur­suit of top-ranked Spain after the Dutch leapfrogged over Ger­many into the #2 spot. The WCB Rank­ings had the Dutch ahead of Ger­many since the April 2009 rankings.

The Dutch have dom­i­nated Group 9 in UEFA qual­i­fy­ing with a per­fect 5–0-0 record and can become the 1st Euro­pean side to make reser­va­tions for South Africa with a vic­tory over Ice­land. The #2 spot in FIFA’s Rank­ings is the high­est for the Oranje since the Sep­tem­ber of 2005. For the past seven years La Naranja Mecanica have remained top ten in the FIFA rankings.

Since the last FIFA/WCB Rank­ings, there were 21 inter­na­tional friendly matches and only three of them involved teams in the World Cup Buzz Rank­ings. Argentina crushed Panama 3–1 at home, Ger­many drew 1–1 in Shang­hai against China, and Egypt beat Oman 1–0 on the road. Those results weren’t enough to change the WCB Rank­ings from last month.

Here they are the new FIFA & World Cup Buzz World Rankings:

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