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FIGURE OF THE MONTH

847The number of matches played in the preliminary round of the 2006 FIFA World Cup™. From

the 194 teams who entered, we are now left with the 31 teams that, together with host nation

Germany, will play in the fi nal round in Germany in June and

July. A total of 2,464 goals were scored in the 847 matches and

over 18 million fans (average: 22,000) fl ocked to the stadiums

to watch the matches. For more facts and fi gures on the preliminary round, please visit

www.FIFAworldcup.com.

The Final Draw for the 2006 FIFA World Cup™ in Leipzig was an opportunity to see old friends and to make new acquaintances. How did Lothar Matthaus and Roger Milla fare at table football? What did new German Chancellor Angela Merkel think of the draw? 68

FIFA CalendarFebruary to June 2006 65

INSIDEPEOPLE 68–69

Websitesof the confederationsand associations 71

FIFA Publications 72

World RankingsMen 76–77Women 79

Reportsfrom the six confederations 80–81

INSIDEINFO 82

2006 FIFA World Cup™

CHF 24.5 million for world championsAs announced by FIFA General Secretary Urs Linsi after the meeting of the Organising Committee for the FIFA World Cup™ in Leipzig on 6 December 2005, the winners of the 2006 FIFA World Cup Germany™ will take home prize money of CHF 24.5 million. The runners-up will pocket CHF 22.5 million while the teams coming third and fourth will each receive CHF 21.5 million.

The total prize money to be awarded by FIFA will amount to CHF 332 million. Advance payments totalling 32 million (one million for each association taking part) will be made as a contribution towards preparing the fi nalist teams. Each association will receive CHF 2 million per match in the fi rst round and can thus rely on a guaranteed income of at least CHF 7 million. The teams that lose in the round of sixteen (9-16) will each earn CHF 8.5 million whereas the losing quarter-fi nalists (5-8) will each pick up CHF 11.5 million.

FIFA will also bear the costs of travel for each delegation comprising 45

PRIZE MONEY Total prize money Place in CHF million

17-32 6.00

9-16 8.50

5-8 11.50

Fourth 21.50

Third 21.50

Second 22.50

World Champion 24.50

people as well as part of the costs of accommodation.

Of the remaining amount of CHF 300 million, fi ve per cent (CHF 15 million) will be set aside for an insurance fund intended to compensate clubs via their associations if any of their players suf-fer injury during the World Cup fi nals. Once compensation has been paid out for such cases, the remaining amount will be distributed among the associa-tions.

FIFA General Secretary Urs Linsi in Leipzig. PHOTO: IMAGO

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3 February AsuncionSouth American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL) congress

14 February ZurichMeeting of the Organising Committee for the Olympic Football Tournaments

15 February ZurichMeetings of the Players’ Status Committee and the Legal Committee

16 February ZurichMeeting of the Committee for FIFA Women’s Youth Competitions

17 February ZurichMeetings of the Organising Committee for the FIFA Club World Championship and the Associations Committee

3-4 March Lucerne120th Annual General Meeting of the International Football Association Board (IFAB)

3-4 March Dusseldorf2nd International Football and Sports Medicine Conference

5 March DusseldorfMeetings of F-MARC, the Sports Medical Committee and the confederations’ medical committees

6-8 March Dusseldorf2006 FIFA World Cup Germany™ team workshop

9 March ZurichInternal Audit Committee meeting

13 March ZurichMeetings of the Technical and Development Committee and the Football Committee

14 March ZurichMeetings of the Board of FIFA Marketing & TV AG, the Marketing and Television Advisory Board and the Strategic Studies Committee

15 March ZurichMeetings of the Finance Committee, the Goal Bureau and the Tsunami Task Force

FIFA Calendar February to June 2006

16 March ZurichMeetings of the Bureau of the 2006 FIFA World Cup Germany™ and the Executive Committee (1st part)

17 March ZurichExecutive Committee meeting (2nd part)

22-25 March Frankfurt2006 FIFA World Cup Germany™ referees’ workshop

23 March BudapestEuropean Football Confederation (UEFA) congress

31 March ZurichReferees Committee meeting

11 April ZurichFIFA fi nancial media conference

24-25 May ZurichBlue Stars/FIFA Youth Cup

2 June MunichMeetings of the Internal Audit Committee and the Board of FIFA Marketing & TV AG

3 June MunichMeetings of the Finance Committee, the Organising Committee for the 2006 FIFA World Cup™ and the Strategic Studies Committee

4 June MunichExecutive Committee meeting

5 June MunichAsian Football Confederation (AFC) and Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF)

6 June MunichFIFA Congress

7 June BerlinFIFA World Cup™ Gala

9 June-9 July2006 FIFA World Cup Germany™

FIFAworldcup.comFollow all the action of all

matches and extensive editorial coverage on

Pushing ahead with professional referees

Groundbreaking decision

At a meeting chaired by President Joseph S. Blatter in Leipzig on 7 December 2005, the FIFA Executive Committee resolved to press ahead with professional refereeing and noted that a working group of the Referees Committee had started work on this project. Furthermore, the committee approved the new regulations regarding nominations for the FIFA List of International Referees, Assistant Referees and Futsal Referees and noted that the 2006 edition would comprise 884 match offi cials. The allocations per confederation are as follows: AFC 191, CAF 233, CONCACAF 93, CONMEBOL 74, OFC 25 and UEFA 268.

President Blatter also reported on the Task Force For the Good of the Game, which the Ordinary FIFA Congress in Marrakech (Morocco) had approved on 12 September 2005.

The Executive Committee also discussed the following points:

- Proposals will be made to the 2006 FIFA Congress for modifi cations to the provision regarding age in the Men’s Olympic Football Tournament. Hitherto, three players over the age of 23 have been able to compete. This rule will be

On the question of member associations, the executive body passed the following decisions:

- to ratify the Emergency Committee’s provisional revocation of the Yemen Football Association’s suspension;

- to grant the Kenya Football Federation another deadline of two months in which to bring its structure into line with the FIFA Statutes, or else be suspended;

- to suspend the Algeria football association as from 23 December 2005 unless the elections planned for 22 December are carried out in accordance with the association’s applicable statutes;

- to suspend payments from the Financial Assistance Programme (FAP) to the Football Association of Brunei Darussalam for as long as the association fails to submit its statutes to FIFA. These statutes should have been received by 15 April 2004.

Finally, FIFA General Secretary Urs Linsi informed the Executive Committee that Michael Schallhart, the Director of the Executive Offi ce of the President, had been appointed Deputy General Secretary.

abolished for the 2008 Olympic Football Tournament. The IOC’s recent decision to admit twelve teams (hitherto ten) to the women’s competition was also welcomed.

- The proposal was approved for the number of teams in the new U-17 women’s competition starting in 2008 to be increased from 12 to 16.

- The organisation of the FIFA Futsal World Championship in 2008 was awarded to Brazil.

- The dates for the next African Cup of Nations in Egypt from 20 January to 10 February 2006 were offi cially approved in accordance with the international match calendar.

- The FIFA Emergency Committee’s decision on 1 November 2005 to award the USA television rights for the 2007-2014 period to ABC/ESPN and Univision for USD 425 million was ratifi ed.

- Furthermore, the executive agreed that the FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking should be revised. The new system will come into effect after the 2006 FIFA World Cup™ and will include data from the previous four instead of eight years for evaluation purposes.

On 8 December, the Hamburg district court pronounced a judgment confi rming the protection of FIFA trademarks. The court decided that FIFA was entitled to forbid the Ferrero company from using the mark “Deutschland 2006” on its products. In reaching its decision, the court referred to FIFA’s German and European registered marks. This pronouncement of trademark protection in FIFA’s favour reaffi rmed yet again that no other company may make commercial use of these marks. The judgment was passed in temporary injunction proceedings

that FIFA had initiated against Ferrero in a move to protect its exclusive rights towards its own contractual partners. Despite the fact that Ferrero had expected such a petition from FIFA and had therefore deposited a so-called letter of protection with the court outlining its legal interpretation, the Hamburg district court ruled in favour of FIFA. In previous proceedings, the Hamburg district court had decided that Ferrero’s attempts to register “Deutschland 2006” as a mark were unfairly obstructing FIFA’s commercial activities.

New languagesFIFAworldcup.com is produced, de-signed, hosted and marketed jointly by FIFA and Yahoo! The offi cial site has fi ve main sections: Tournament, Classic Football, Fun and Games, Or-ganisation and Destination Germany, each of which contains breaking news, real-time results, photo galleries and archived video highlights from the vaults of FIFA. FIFAworldcup.com now has three additional languages – Portu-guese, Italian and Korean – to take the total number of languages to seven. “FIFA is very pleased to announce the expansion of FIFAworldcup.com with new languages and new features for soccer fans worldwide,” said Jérôme Valcke, director of the FIFA Marketing & TV division.

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Coca-Cola sign deal to 2022FIFA and Coca-Cola have reaffi rmed their partnership in a landmark deal that marks a clear commitment to sustained development in the world’s most cherished sport across all divides. FIFA President Joseph S. Blatter and Coca-Cola Chairman E. Neville Isdell put pen to paper on the agreement in Cape Town, South Africa, host nation for the 2010 FIFA World Cup™.

Coca-Cola’s involvement in the non-alcoholic beverages category from 2007 to 2022 embraces all FIFA competitions, including the four FIFA World Cup™ fi nal competitions in this period, as well as development initiatives and any special events organised by the world governing body. Coca-Cola is thus the fourth company after adidas, Hyundai and Sony to join the prestigious group of six top-tier FIFA sponsors granted an exclusive tie-up with FIFA and its activities both on and off the pitch from 2007 to 2014.

“UNSTINTING SUPPORT”“This agreement teams us up

with one of world football’s leading advocates in a long-lasting relationship that bears witness to the enduring appeal of football,” said FIFA President Blatter. “We are greatly indebted to

Coca-Cola for their unstinting support of football and for sharing our vision of making the game transcend gender, age, race and socioeconomic status.”

“This recommitment by Coca-Cola to the world’s most popular sport and its fans affords us new opportunities to bring people closer together through football,” explained Coca-Cola Chairman and CEO, E. Neville Isdell. “Our heritage with football and FIFA is further energised through the renewed and far-reaching partnership we celebrate today.”

TICKET FUND PLANNEDCoca-Cola has been an offi cial

sponsor of the FIFA World Cup™ since 1978, but the multinational’s association with the game dates back to 1950 when it supported the World Cup local organising committee. The Atlanta-based corporation champions football in many different areas, a commitment that is amply refl ected in the new deal. Coca-Cola will join FIFA and other FIFA Partners in setting up the 2010 FIFA World Cup™ Ticket Fund, which is designed to benefi t those South Africans who otherwise would not be able to afford a ticket for the world’s biggest single-sport event.

Criticism dismissedFIFA has fl atly rejected the criticism levelled at it by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and its president Richard Pound on Monday, 21 November, particularly in view of the fact that Pound had offi cially declared at the 117th session of the International Olympic Committee in Singapore at the beginning of July that all 35 Olympic sports federations met the requirements of the World Anti-Doping Code.On 29 September 2005, FIFA requested the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS)

in Lausanne, Switzerland, for an opinion on the law of sanctions in relation to legal persons based in Switzerland. FIFA’s request was issued in the light of ongoing discussions with WADA, which requires that athletes be given an automatic two-year ban for a fi rst doping offence.FIFA maintains that a standard penalty of this kind is questionable from a le-gal point of view as it could be reduced only under very limited circumstances and it does not take into account the extent of the offender’s guilt.

GEORGE BESTThe football family is mourning the loss of one its most popular members. On 25 November, former Northern Ireland international George Best died of multiple organ failure in London at the age of 59. Best was Manchester United’s most outstanding player at the end of the 1960s and the beginning of the 1970s. In 1968, the winger led his team to victory in the European Cup – the fi rst triumph by an English club in the competition. Best was a spectacular player with pace and an array of tricks on the ball. He was considered one of the best players of his era, but by dint of birth, he never had the chance to play at the World Cup fi nals. Before ending his career, he had a spell in the USA.Discipline was a problem, however. Best regularly hit the headlines off the pitch as well as on it and sadly became addicted to alcohol. His most legendary quote was “I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.” Despite several detoxifi cation programmes, he was unable to shake off his addiction. In the last few years of his life, Best worked as a TV pundit. George Best was laid to rest in Belfast on 3 December 2005.

SYMPATHYFormer Italy coach Ferruccio Valcareggi passed away in Florence on 2 November at the age of 86. Under his stewardship, the “Squadra Azzurra” won the European Championship in 1968 and fi nished as runners-up at the 1970 World Cup.In a letter of condolence to the president of the Italian football association, Franco Carraro, FIFA President Joseph S. Blatter recognised Valcareggi’s services to football. “He will always remain in the memory of football fans in Italy and all over the world. Our deepest sympathy goes out to his family.”

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FIFA President awarded top honourJoseph S. Blatter was awarded an honorary doctorate by Bulgaria’s National Sports Academy on 15 November. The FIFA President received the award in the Bulgarian capital, Sofi a, in recognition of his “great contribution to the expansion of football around the world,” said Lachezar Dimitrov, rector of the academy.

Two men, ten World Cups

Between them, Lothar Matthaus and Velibor “Bora” Milutinovic have contested a total of ten World Cups as a player and coach respectively. Mat-thaus, 45, Germany’s most-capped international with 145 appearances and the only outfi eld player to take part in fi ve World Cup fi nal competitions (1982, 1986, 1990, 1994 and 1998), is the cur-rent Hungary boss, while Milutinovic is currently out of work. Nevertheless, it cannot be ruled out that the 65-year-old Serb will be back in charge of a national team at the 2006 World Cup. He was, after all, involved in all of the last fi ve tournaments, coaching Mexico in 1986, Costa Rica in 1990, the USA in 1994, Nigeria in 1998 and the People’s Republic of China in 2002. At the draw for the 2006 World Cup fi nals in Leipzig last December, Matthaus and Milutinovic reminisced about certain matches while looking forward to the forthcoming World Cup. Both were convinced that it

will be “a magical tournament”.

Matthaus/Milla 10 Karembeu/Radebe 8

Lothar Matthaus, Roger Milla, Christian Karembeu and Lucas Radebe were the epitome of world-class on the pitch, and they are not bad at table football either. At the draw for the World Cup fi nals in Leipzig, Matthaus and Cameroon legend Milla issued a challenge to Karembeu, a World Cup winner with France in 1998 and Radebe, the former South Africa defender. The pairing of Matthaus/Milla won an exciting game 10-8. “Man of the match” was Milla, who scored the majority of his team’s goals despite operating the bars used to move the goalkeeper and the defence. Milla celebrated his goals almost as frenetically as the ones he scored at the World Cups in 1990 and 1994

– although he did refrain from dancing the lambada in Leipzig.

Angela Merkel in confident moodThe World Cup draw in Leipzig was watched by an audience of nearly 3,500 people, including many high-ranking guests. Ger-many’s new chancellor Angela Merkel was in attendance, as were federal president Horst Kohler and Franz Muntefering, vice-chancellor and minister for employment and social affairs. Like many of her compatriots, Mrs Merkel was very taken with the 90-minute show. “It was a superb occasion. I’m already looking forward to the World Cup, when Germany and her people will show themselves to be outstanding organisers and hosts,” said Merkel, who intends to attend the Germany matches in person, but would also like to see Brazil and Argentina in action. While in Leipzig, the German chancellor was initiated in the secrets of football and the success story of the FIFA World Cup™ by FIFA President Joseph S. Blatter.

Old rivals, old friendsHungarian duo Gyula Grosics and Jeno Buzanszki and Germany FR’s Horst Eckel were on opposite sides in the 1954 World Cup fi nal at the Wankdorf Stadium in Berne. More than 51 years later, the three met up again at the FIFA banquet held on the occasion of the World Cup draw in Leipzig. Goalkeeper Grosics and defender Buzanszki, both now 80 years of age, revealed just how much the 3-2 defeat suffered by the Hungary’s magical Magyars had hurt them. Eckel, 74, a former defender, and Uwe Seeler, 69, who took part in four World Cups but was not involved in 1954, also took the opportunity to rekindle old memories and discuss the forthcoming tournament with their friends and former rivals.

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Task force: more transparencyThe FIFA Task Force for the Good of the Game offi cially started work with a meeting of the Working Group for Financial Matters attended by FIFA President Joseph S. Blatter. The lively and constructive debates resulted in the working group unanimously agreeing on the urgent need to greatly improve fi nancial transparency at all levels to help protect the integrity of the game and its competitions.

Issues such as corruption, betting, ownership of more than one football club by a single individual or organisation, money-laundering, controlling the fl ow of money in player transfers, developments in the transfer market and the role of players’ agents were all on the agenda. First of all, the working group, chaired by Mathieu Sprengers (Netherlands), took stock of all of these issues and listened to a report from Dr Protogenes Pinheiro de Querioz, a Brazilian police offi cer who led investigations into the origin of funds behind the purchase of Brazilian club Corinthians, and into Brazilian referee Edilson Pereira de Carvalho’s attempts to manipulate football

matches. The working group members then studied the regulations that are in force for all of the above matters, before they opened their discussions by expressing ideas with the aim of formulating concrete proposals for their next meeting in Zurich on 8 February 2006. A separate meeting on illegal betting will also be held a day earlier. “The decision to create the Task Force

No smartball at World Cupadidas has confi rmed that the so-called smartball technology that uses the ball as an information carrier will not debut at the 2006 FIFA World Cup™. The technology was not tested at the FIFA Club World Championship TOYOTA Cup Japan 2005 in December.

In consultation with world football’s governing body, FIFA, and in close cooperation with development partner Cairos Technologies AG in Karlsbad, Germany, it was decided to focus on the further development and testing of the system before using it at tournaments on the highest level.

Cairos Technologies AG is the leader in the sector of highly accurate, high-resolution 3-D localisation of dynamic objects. Cairos was founded in June

2000 and came up with the initial idea of tracking an object on the pitch in order to support the referee in his decisions.

The Cairos system has been developed and optimised for situations in which fast moving objects must be located exactly and securely with very small transmitters.

The principles used in the system can also be applied in different situations: in sport, such as American football, association football, basketball or ice hockey, but also in industry, such as in security matters at airports and gates, in large docks, in military operations or in many other situations besides.

Cairos AG is the exclusive worldwide distributor for the Cairos system in sport and industry.

More dialogueThe Working Group for Competitions held its fi rst meeting at FIFA headquarters in Zurich on 29 November 2005. The issues discussed included the international match calendar and the structure of domestic and international competitions, relations between clubs and national teams, the decline in the competitiveness of some competitions and the fi ght against doping, one of FIFA’s priorities.

“While discussing the recent problems between FIFA and some clubs, such as the ‘Charleroi case’, the Working Group for Competitions came to the conclusion that dialogue should replace confrontation in the FIFA family,” said Dr Michel D’Hooghe (FIFA Executive Committee member and president of FC Brugge).

FIFA Task Force for the Good of the Game

for the Good of the Game has been vindicated, not only by the fact that various sectors of international football are represented in the Working Group for Financial Matters, but also by the relevance of the members’ comments and ideas, and by their shared determination to identify problems and to work together to fi ght them,” said the FIFA President.

Working Group for Competitions:Adriano Galliani (Italy/Chairman), Michel Platini (France/Deputy Chairman), Dr. Michel D’Hooghe (Belgium), Gerhard Mayer-Vorfelder (Germany), César Luis Menotti (Argentina), Theo van Seggelen (Netherlands), Emilio Butragueño (Spain), Walter A. Brunner (Switzerland), Vitaly Mutko (Russia), Kalusha Bwalya (Zambia), Pierluigi Collina (Italy), Johan Cruyff (Netherlands), Arsène Wenger (France), Lars-Christer Olsson (Sweden/represented by Giorgio Marchetti).

Working Group for Financial Matters: Mathieu Sprengers (Nether-lands/Chairman, pictured), Ricardo Terra Teixeira (Brazil/Deputy Chairman), Gilberto Madail (Portugal), Philippe Piat (France), Richard Scudamore (England), Joan Laporta (Spain), Roger Vanden Stock (Belgium), Urs Linsi (Switzerland), Lars-Christer Olsson (Sweden), Dato’ Peter Velappan (Malaysia). – Guests: Julio Grondona (Argentina), Dr. Protogo-nés Pinheiro de Queiroz (Brazil).

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The FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking

evaluates all matches played by

senior national teams, i.e.

• World Cup fi nal matches

• World Cup preliminary matches

• continental championship fi nal

matches

• continental championship

preliminary matches

• friendly matches.

The calculation of a team’s points

from a certain match is based on

the following six criteria:

• winning, drawing and losing

• number of goals

• home or away match

• importance of the match

(multiplication factor)

• strength of the opponent

• regional strength

(multiplication factor)

To ensure that the FIFA/Coca-Cola

World Ranking always refl ects

the current status, FIFA primarily

evaluates matches played in the 12

months prior to the date on which

it is issued. Performance over the

previous years is also taken into

account, however. Basically, the

score obtained from the current

12 months is added to that of the

immediately preceding seven years,

with each previous year being

devalued continually.

The Ranking System

103 Northern Ireland -2 107 461 +1

104 Gabon -2 109 459 0

Georgia -4 104 459 -3

106 Malawi -2 109 451 +1

107 Moldova +1 114 442 +1

108 Armenia +2 119 431 +1

109 Indonesia -6 91 418 -37

110 Congo +1 117 411 -2

111 Thailand -6 79 408 -41

112 Ethiopia +16 151 399 +48

113 Benin +2 122 396 0

114 Azerbaijan -1 113 394 -6

115 Barbados +4 121 386 -1

116 Turkmenistan -4 98 385 -16

117 Hong Kong 0 133 383 -7

118 Malta +5 134 371 0

Cape Verde Islands +2 129 371 -1

120 Vietnam SR -6 103 368 -31

New Zealand -2 95 368 -20

122 Liechtenstein +2 142 366 +1

123 Malaysia -7 120 358 -35

124 El Salvador -4 106 357 -15

125 Andorra +2 138 356 0

Lebanon -5 105 356 -16

127 India +8 132 355 +31

128 St. Lucia -3 114 344 -15

129 St. Kitts & Nevis -1 118 337 -14

130 St. Vincent/Grenadines -4 137 336 -22

Mozambique 0 126 336 -8

132 Faroe Islands -1 131 325 -7

133 Maldives +14 139 323 +41

134 Swaziland -3 126 322 -10

135 Fiji +1 135 317 -6

Liberia -2 123 317 -11

137 Kazakhstan +2 147 314 -1

Palestine 0 126 314 -8

139 Yemen -5 124 310 -15

140 Solomon Islands -2 130 303 -13

141 Tajikistan 0 136 299 -10

Tahiti -1 124 299 -14

143 Mauritius +1 140 284 -8

144 Sri Lanka 0 140 281 -11

145 Lesotho +1 144 267 -16

146 Vanuatu +2 143 266 -10

147 Burundi -4 152 265 -40

Myanmar -5 144 265 -43

149 Madagascar 0 147 264 -9

150 Luxembourg +2 155 256 0

151 Grenada -1 144 249 -20

152 Nicaragua +2 158 244 0

Surinam -1 149 244 -13

154 Antigua +1 153 239 -4

155 San Marino +2 164 238 0

156 Chinese Taipei 0 155 237 -4

157 Kyrgyzstan -4 150 235 -10

158 Pakistan +10 177 231 +51

159 Chad -1 168 229 -3

160 Bangladesh +10 167 224 +48

161 Namibia -1 158 219 -5

Bermuda -3 157 219 -13

163 Sierra Leone -1 160 213 +9

164 Gambia -3 154 205 -10

165 Tanzania +10 172 196 +46

166 Papua New Guinea -2 161 191 -6

167 Guyana 0 182 185 0

168 Netherlands Antilles -2 163 184 -6

169 Eritrea +3 169 182 +13

170 Laos -5 162 180 -15

171 British Virgin Islands -8 165 176 -26

172 Dominica -3 165 171 -8

173 Equatorial Guinea -2 171 169 -4

174 Dominican Republic -1 170 157 -7

175 Nepal +6 177 153 +17

176 Seychelles -2 173 152 -4

177 Niger -1 173 144 -5

178 Mauritania 0 175 139 -5

179 Mongolia 0 185 137 -1

180 Belize +1 181 134 -2

181 Cayman Islands -5 176 133 -16

182 Samoa -2 179 131 -6

183 Central African Rep. 0 180 128 -4

184 Somalia +4 193 111 +23

185 Tonga -1 183 110 -4

186 Guinea-Bissau +5 190 109 +34

187 New Caledonia -2 186 104 -3

188 Cambodia -3 184 95 -12

189 Afghanistan +9 200 85 +31

190 Bhutan -1 187 84 -1

191 Philippines -4 188 77 -13

192 Macao -2 188 75 -3

193 Bahamas -1 192 68 -4

194 Cook Islands 0 190 65 -5

195 Puerto Rico -2 194 62 -9

196 US Virgin Islands -1 196 58 -5

197 Sao Tome e Principe -1 195 55 -4

198 Anguilla -1 197 52 -3

199 Brunei Darussalam 0 199 49 -2

200 Djibouti +1 201 46 +13

200 Aruba 0 198 46 -3

202 Montserrat 0 202 30 -1

203 Turks and Caicos 0 203 22 -1

204 Guam 0 205 20 0

205 American Samoa 0 204 15 0

Note: Teams inactive since 1997 and teams which

have not played yet do not appear in the table.

Brazil and Ghana take annual awards For the fourth year in a row, Brazil take the Top Team title after fi nishing the year at the top of the table and 44 points clear of their nearest competitor, a position they resiliently held on to for the entire year. The Czech Republic, fi nishing in second position, bettered their end-of-2004 ranking by two positions, while other notable movers within the top ten include the Netherlands (3rd, up 3 ranks on 2004), Mexico (5th, up 2) and the USA (8th, up 3), who made it to their highest

ever ranking position (6th) in July of this year. Ghana eventually won the race for the Best Mover title, shaking off competition from Ethiopia and Togo, while Ethiopia stood out when it came to improving ranking, climbing 39 places in 2005 to reach 112th, with Togo (56th, up 33) and Scotland (60th, up 26) also gaining more than 25 ranking positions. Scotland top the list of most richly rewarded matches in 2005 by collecting 44.4 points in their 3-0 victory over Slovenia in October – a

FIFA World Cup™ qualifying win which unfortunately came too late for the Scots. Trinidad and Tobago were the most active team in 2005, contesting 28 matches. To date, a total of 743 matches have been played in 2005 with some additional games outstanding (SAFF Cup, friendlies), which means 2005 was rather ‘quiet’ in comparison to previous years. Almost half of the matches (352) played were part of the preliminary competition for the 2006 FIFA World Cup Germany™.

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1 Brazil 0 1 840 -1

2 Czech Republic 0 4 796 0

3 Netherlands 0 6 791 0

4 Argentina 0 3 772 -2

5 Mexico +2 7 768 0

Spain +1 5 768 -3

France 0 2 768 -4

8 USA 0 11 767 +1

9 England 0 8 757 0

10 Portugal 0 9 754 0

11 Turkey 0 14 748 -1

12 Italy 0 10 741 0

13 Denmark 0 14 733 +1

14 Sweden 0 13 732 +1

15 Japan 0 17 715 +2

16 Germany 0 19 708 -2

Greece +1 18 708 0

18 Uruguay 0 16 706 0

19 Iran 0 20 703 +1

20 Croatia 0 23 701 0

21 Costa Rica 0 27 699 0

22 Poland +1 25 696 0

23 Cameroon -1 23 695 -2

24 Colombia +1 26 692 0

Nigeria +1 21 692 0

Ireland Republic -1 12 692 -4

27 Romania 0 29 686 0

28 Tunisia 0 35 685 +2

29 Korea Republic 0 22 680 -2

30 Senegal 0 31 672 0

Paraguay 0 30 672 0

32 Egypt +1 34 665 +2

33 Saudi Arabia -1 28 663 -6

34 Russia 0 32 662 0

35 Switzerland +1 51 656 +2

36 Morocco -1 33 655 0

37 Ecuador 0 39 651 +1

38 Norway 0 35 649 0

39 Bulgaria 0 37 638 0

40 Ukraine 0 57 630 +3

41 Honduras 0 59 628 +2

42 Jamaica +1 49 626 +1

Cote d’Ivoire -1 40 626 0

44 Israel 0 48 622 0

45 Slovakia 0 53 621 +2

46 Finland -1 43 614 -5

47 Serbia & Montenegro 0 46 612 0

48 Australia +1 58 610 0

49 South Africa -1 38 609 -2

50 Ghana 0 77 608 0

50 Trinidad and Tobago +1 63 608 +1

52 Bahrain +1 49 603 +2

53 Zimbabwe +1 60 601 +1

54 Iraq +20 44 597 +51

55 Belgium -3 45 596 -7

56 Togo 0 89 585 +3

Guatemala -1 71 585 +1

58 Zambia -1 70 579 0

59 Uzbekistan -1 47 573 -5

60 Scotland +1 86 572 0

61 Angola +1 72 570 0

Belarus -2 69 570 -3

63 Mali -4 51 569 -4

64 Chile -1 74 562 0

65 Bosnia-Herzegovina 0 79 561 +1

66 Peru -1 66 560 0

67 Venezuela 0 62 555 -1

68 Slovenia -5 42 553 -9

69 Austria +3 83 550 0

Latvia +1 65 550 -2

71 Wales +1 68 549 -1

72 China PR -3 54 548 -6

Kuwait -4 54 548 -7

74 Hungary -3 64 547 -4

75 Cuba 0 76 546 +1

76 Estonia +1 81 543 +2

77 Congo DR -1 78 541 -1

78 Panama 0 100 536 +1

79 Guinea +1 86 531 0

80 Algeria +2 73 522 -2

Libya +3 61 522 -1

82 Albania +3 86 517 0

Korea DPR +2 95 517 0

84 Canada +3 90 512 0

85 United Arab Emirates +3 82 509 -1

86 Jordan -2 40 503 -18

87 Macedonia FYR +3 92 502 0

Burkina Faso +2 84 502 -3

89 Rwanda +17 99 488 +42

Kenya +3 74 488 -7

91 Oman -12 56 484 -50

92 Sudan +1 114 483 -4

Singapore +3 112 483 +1

94 Iceland -1 93 482 -5

95 Qatar -14 66 478 -49

96 Cyprus +1 108 472 0

Bolivia 0 94 472 -2

98 Haiti -7 95 465 -31

Syria +9 85 465 +23

100 Lithuania -2 100 464 -1

101 Uganda +8 109 463 +29

Botswana -2 102 463 0

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Germany still lead the way The third year-end FIFA Women’s World Ranking is once again headed by world and European champions Germany. Success in this year’s European Championship has doubled Sylvia Neid’s team’s advantage over the American Olympic champions, while Norway (3rd) and Brazil (4th) – the only South American team in the top ten – lie some way back in third and fourth respectively.

The remaining places in the top ten are occupied by Sweden (5th), Korea DPR (6th), France (7th), Denmark (8th), China PR (9th) and Italy (10th). In terms of the number of points gained in 2005, Germany (+ 53 points) and

England (+ 39) lead the way. However, the Best Mover of the Year comes from Asia, with Vietnam climbing seven places to 36th on the back of an impressive haul of points.

Other teams heading in the right direction include Poland, Slovenia and Northern Ireland, while Mozambique (down 6), Portugal (down 6) and Hungary (down 8) are the teams who have lost the most ground in 2005. Egypt, Bermuda and FYR Macedonia now appear in the FIFA Women’s World Ranking, in contrast to Morocco, who for the time being are no longer listed.

The ranking currently features 123 teams, who are evaluated on a number

of factors, including match results, home advantage, the signifi cance of a match and the strength of the opposition. The ranking is published four times per year. According to the Big Count survey published by FIFA in 2001, 22 million women and girls around the world play football.

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1 Germany 0 1 2234 12 USA 0 2 2184 -73 Norway 0 3 2100 64 Brazil 0 4 2053 05 Sweden 1 5 2012 76 Korea DPR 1 8 1999 07 France -2 9 1997 -328 Denmark 0 7 1977 -49 China PR 0 6 1950 -710 Italy 0 10 1939 811 Japan 0 13 1908 012 England 2 14 1905 3313 Canada -1 11 1904 014 Russia -1 12 1891 -215 Australia 1 15 1866 1416 Finland -2 16 1845 -2717 Netherlands 1 17 1821 2218 Ukraine 1 19 1805 2219 Iceland -2 18 1804 -1420 Spain 0 20 1778 2421 Czech Republic 2 22 1776 3122 New Zealand -1 21 1751 023 Korea Republic -1 26 1748 024 Nigeria 1 24 1736 -325 Chinese Taipei -1 23 1733 -826 Mexico 0 25 1729 -427 Switzerland 0 30 1685 -227 Poland 5 32 1685 3529 Scotland 0 29 1665 -1030 Serbia & Montenegro -2 31 1662 -1931 Belgium -1 27 1648 -2632 Ireland Republic 3 35 1632 833 Romania 0 33 1629 -334 Peru 0 38 1627 035 Hungary -4 27 1625 -4736 Vietnam SR 7 43 1604 1836 Argentina 1 37 1604 038 Colombia 0 36 1600 039 Trinidad and Tobago 2 39 1593 040 Portugal -4 34 1592 -2241 Thailand -1 41 1587 -942 Belarus 0 40 1585 -243 Slovakia -4 42 1580 -19

44 Myanmar 0 46 1571 1345 Austria 2 47 1559 2746 Costa Rica 0 45 1547 047 Croatia -2 44 1531 -2348 Bulgaria 0 48 1521 049 Uzbekistan 0 49 1504 050 Ghana 0 50 1494 051 Chile 0 51 1487 052 Ecuador 1 52 1463 053 Tonga * 2 55 1461 054 Wales 2 56 1451 055 Greece -3 53 1449 -1756 India 1 58 1443 056 Haiti 1 57 1443 058 Egypt * 1 1440 059 Papua New Guinea 1 59 1429 060 Lithuania 1 60 1399 -261 Latvia 1 61 1382 -862 Panama 1 63 1375 063 Kazakhstan 2 64 1366 064 Indonesia 0 62 1361 -1365 Paraguay 1 66 1354 066 Hong Kong 1 65 1353 067 Israel 2 71 1349 368 Uruguay 0 67 1347 069 Turkey 1 68 1344 070 Slovenia 5 75 1339 2671 Faroe Islands 0 70 1334 072 Guam 0 69 1325 072 South Africa 2 73 1325 274 Fiji -1 72 1324 075 Malaysia 1 74 1299 -676 Jamaica 1 76 1294 077 Northern Ireland 6 83 1293 2278 Algeria 0 78 1285 079 Mali 0 79 1283 080 Venezuela 0 77 1282 081 Guatemala 0 80 1278 081 Philippines 0 81 1278 083 Cameroon 1 82 1268 284 Estonia 1 84 1229 085 Bosnia-Herzegovina 1 85 1225 086 Bolivia 1 86 1220 0

87 Vanuatu * 1 87 1208 088 Singapore 4 90 1203 689 Dominica * 0 88 1199 089 Surinam 0 88 1199 091 Honduras 0 90 1198 092 Moldova 2 93 1197 793 Angola 0 92 1191 094 Senegal * 1 94 1184 095 Zimbabwe 1 95 1179 096 Congo DR 1 96 1172 097 El Salvador 1 97 1160 098 St. Lucia * 1 98 1158 099 Tahiti * 1 99 1155 0100 Cook Islands * 1 101 1143 0101 Samoa 1 102 1122 0102 Dominican Republic * 2 104 1114 0103 Malta 0 103 1113 -3103 Nicaragua * 2 105 1113 0105 Bahamas * 1 106 1111 0106 Ethiopia 1 107 1084 0106 Guinea 1 107 1084 0108 Armenia 1 109 1064 0109 Congo * 1 110 1056 0110 Maldives Republic * 1 100 1044 0110 Swaziland * 1 111 1044 0112 Puerto Rico * 1 112 1036 0113 Zambia * 1 113 1027 0114 Botswana * 1 114 1026 0115 Cyprus * 2 116 1023 0115 Gabon * 2 116 1023 0117 Bermuda * 2 974 0118 Namibia * 2 118 970 0119 Macedonia FYR * 2 939 0120 Mozambique * -5 114 923 -103121 Cayman Islands * 1 119 917 0122 Belize * 1 120 882 0123 Tanzania * 1 121 788 0

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CONMEBOL OFC UEFAAFC CAF CONCACAF

A survey conducted by Uruguayan Sports Web has revealed that 62.4% of fans would like to see a new national coach in place. Despite being asked by the Uruguayan football association to continue in his position, Jorge Fossati refused to take charge of the friendly match against a Galicia XI on 29 Decem-ber. And with that, he waved goodbye to the national team of Uruguay. Fossati had taken over in April 2004 after a series of defeats and managed to steer the team to fi fth place in the South American qualifi ers of the 2006 FIFA World Cup™, after remaining unbeaten throughout the second half of the qualifying campaign. But in the deciding play-off against Australia, Uruguay’s luck ran out. He described that day as the worst thing that has ever happened to him.

On 25 November 2005, in an unprec-edented, ground-breaking decision in the history of Colombian football, two hooligans of Independiente Santa Fe from Bogota were sentenced to 20 years of prison for attacking two other spectators with knives at the Campin stadium during a match against America de Cali on 11 May 2005.The attackers were named as Julio Alberto Trivino and Augusto Eduardo Bonilla, and the victims of the brawl, which was captured on television, were Jeison Ortiz and Kevin Gomez. The president of the Venezuelan foot-ball association (VFF), Rafael Esquivel, met national coach Richard Paez on 16 November 2005 to discuss his new contract and future plans for the Ven-ezuela team.The VFF plans to keep Paez as the national coach for the 2007 Copa Amer-ica and the next World Cup cycle. Given that the coach is willing to continue in his position, all they have to agree on are certain outstanding points. It seems a foregone conclusion that he will stay on. Jorge Barraza

Sobou FC were one of the fi rst clubs to confi rm their place in the 2006 OFC Club Championship with their fifth consecutive Papua New Guinea national club title at Laiwaden Oval in Madang. Sobou defeated Cosmos 4-2 in the fi nal with goals from Solomon Islander Clifford Wate (2), Sovera Guti and Andrew Kasam. Andrew Lepani replied twice for Cosmos. In the match for third place, Momads defeated Blue Kumuls 3-0. Sobou also played in the 2005 OFC Club Championship in Tahiti with limited success and will hope for a better outcome this year.

Still in Melanesia, the Solomon Islands recently opened their second phase FIFA Goal project in Honiara. Solomon Islands Football Federation (SIFF) president Martin Alufurai announced that the Alan Boso National Soccer Academy would be a facility dedicated to the development of youth and women’s football in the country. The ceremony also served as an opportunity to remember the hard work of Matthew Kausimae, the former CEO of SIFF, who passed away just days before the inauguration ceremony. OFC president Reynald Temarii attended the ceremony as a guest of honour.

Delegates from all 12 OFC member associations descended on Moorea in French Polynesia recently to discuss the strategic direction of the confedera-tion during a three-day workshop. Input was sourced from the member associa-tions regarding the development of the OFC competitions calendar from 2006 to 2009 and the OFC technical strategy. The workshop was also an opportunity to congratulate Australia on their quali-fi cation for the 2006 FIFA World Cup™ and to bid them farewell from the con-federation. FIFA’s Walter Gagg was on hand to witness the sense of unity and friendship among the football family of Oceania that was strengthened by the workshop. Seamus Marten

The Portuguese football association recently launched one of its most ambi-tious projects: the construction of the Portuguese House of Football (Casa das Selecções/Casa do Futebol) on the outskirts of Lisbon. The centre will cover 16 hectares and will boast four football pitches and all the necessary facilities for the country’s national teams to prepare for matches. The centre will also have its own hotel, a restaurant, tennis courts and a sports hall. Work is already under-way and the fi rst stage of the project is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2006.

Jaka Jakopic is a former NK Domzale player who successfully fought cancer. He recently returned to football and also encouraged the Slovenian footballers’ association (SPINS) to join the “Heads up” campaign that aims to improve public awareness of cancer and fi ght against misconceptions of the disease. The campaign has also raised funds to help cancer sufferers.

The Football Association of Ireland (FAI) has joined forces with the Irish Rugby Football Union and the Irish government to build a new stadium at Lansdowne Road. The entire project has a budget of EUR 365 million. Work is scheduled to start in early 2007 and should be completed by mid-2009. Andre Vieli

A FIFA Com-Unity workshop for the Foot-ball Association of Malaysia (FAM) held in November proved to be a resounding success, with non-governmental organi-sations (NGOs) and the media agreeing to join hands and work for the good of the community through the beautiful game. The course focused on communi-cations, marketing and the role of NGOs and was inaugurated by AFC President Mohamed bin Hammam. Jurg Nepfer, FIFA’s head of course programmes, steered the three-day course.In his opening speech, Bin Hammam underlined the importance of market-ing and communications in developing the game. “There are huge fi nancial opportunities around us, but so far our associations, clubs and leagues have not been able to pick this up due to a lack of knowledge and know-how,” he said. “We need to have these skills if we want to take our football to the next level.”FAM General Secretary Ibrahim Saad stressed the need for a fl exible mindset to adapt to the fast-changing world of football. “We must not only concern our-selves with matters on the fi eld but also with marketing and communications,” he said. “This workshop provided us with the opportunity to renovate and innovate our administration in order to cope with the demands of the modern game.”

A nationwide professional league will be launched in Bangladesh in October 2006 as part of the AFC’s “Vision Asia” project. The “Vision Asia” team provided the rules and regulations for the new league. To strengthen its administration, the Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) has already started recruiting profes-sional staff. “I hope the new structured league will boost the game in the country and help the teams in a big way,” said BFF General Secretary Anwarul Hoq Helel. “The league will have 10 to 12 clubs, including clubs from the far-fl ung areas of Chittagong, Slyhet, Khulna, Rajshai and possibly Barisal.” Michelle Chai

Top club Al Ahly from Egypt lifted their fourth African Champions League trophy on 12 November after beating Tunisia’s Etoile du Sahel 3-0 in front of a jubilant home crowd. The fi rst leg in Sousse had ended in a goalless draw. Al Ahly from Cairo is one of the most traditional and prestigious clubs in Africa and the most successful one in Egypt, having won the domestic league 30 times and the national cup competition on 33 occa-sions.

Forces Armées Royales (FAR) became the first Moroccan side to lift the Confederation Cup on 19 November after beating Nigeria’s Dolphins 3-0 in the second leg of the fi nal to win 3-1 on aggregate, having lost 1-0 to Dolphins in the fi rst leg. Accra Hearts of Oak from Ghana won the fi rst ever Confederation Cup in 2004. FAR from the city of Rabat is the most successful Moroccan club (11 league titles, 8 cup titles) followed by Wyad AC (WAC) from Casablanca (10 league titles, 9 cups).

Rafi q Khan, President of the Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA), told local media in November that the “Warriors”, Zimbabwe’s senior national team, would gather for a training camp on 26 Decem-ber in preparation for the 2006 African Cup of Nations and remain together until the Egypt fi nals, which roar into life on 20 January 2006. The “Warriors”, who make their second successive Nations Cup appearance in very diffi cult com-pany, are hoping to survive in a Group D that also includes World Cup-bound Ghana, and powerhouses Nigeria and Senegal. Suleiman Habuba

Trinidad & Tobago will be the fourth Caribbean team in history to play in the FIFA World Cup™ fi nals when the team takes to the fi eld in Germany in June. A play-off victory over Asian rivals Bahrain means that the “Soca Warriors” join Jamaica (France 1998), Haiti (Germany 1974) and Cuba (France 1938) on the list of Caribbean teams to play in FIFA’s global showpiece event.

Mexico will host the CONCACAF Women’s Under-20 Final Round from 18–27 January 2006. The tournament, from which three teams will qualify for the FIFA Women’s U-20 World Cham-pionship Russia 2006 (16 August – 2 September), has hosts Mexico in Group A alongside Canada, Panama and Trini-dad & Tobago, while Group B has the USA along with El Salvador, Jamaica and Surinam.This event will be the fi rst time that El Salvador have played in the fi nal stages of a CONCACAF women’s tournament. They earned a place in the CONCACAF Women’s Under-20 Final Round by fi nish-ing fi rst, ahead of Costa Rica and Gua-temala, in one of the Central American qualifying events.

The path is clear for a Toronto-based team to join the USA’s top men’s professional league, Major League Soccer (MLS), fol-lowing a decision of CONCACAF’s Execu-tive Committee on 21 November.The committee unanimously supported the proposal, already approved by both The Canadian Soccer Association (CSA) and the US Soccer Federation (USSF), that a Canadian team could enter the MLS starting with the 2007 season.The Toronto-based team will be the fi rst non-US club to compete in the MLS. The league, which has just celebrated its tenth anniversary, is currently comprised of 12 teams based in cities across the USA. Jason Hughes

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NIAMEY

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General Secretary: ABDOU Sani

Treasurer: HASSANE DIABRI Ounteini

Papua New GuineaGeneral Secretary: DIMIRIT Mileng

Telephone: +675/475 1359

CONGRATULATIONS

to the leading fi gures in world football who will be celebrating their birthdays in March 2006:

FIFA Executive Committee memberGerhard Mayer-Vorfelderwill be 73 on 3 March

FIFA Honorary MemberCharles J. Dempseywill be 84 on 4 March

FIFA PresidentJoseph S. Blatterwill be 70 on 10 March

FIFA Honorary Member Poul Hlydgaardwill be 77 on 19 March

FIFA Honorary MemberDr. Ferdinand Hidalgo Rojaswill be 77 on 27 March

FIFA Executive Committee member Amadou Diakitewill be 52 on 30 March

FIFA Honorary MemberAbdullah Al-Dabalwill be 53 on 31 March

Constructive dialogueAt the instigation of Richard Caborn, Sports Minister of the UK, FIFA and UEFA met a European ministerial del-egation in Leipzig on 8 December. The meeting proved to be very constructive. Joseph S. Blatter, FIFA President, Julio Grondona, FIFA Senior Vice-President and CONMEBOL representative, Len-nart Johansson, UEFA President, Issa Hayatou, CAF President, Urs Linsi, FIFA General Secretary, Lars-Christer Olsson, UEFA Chief Executive Offi cer, as well as Jérôme Champagne, Delegate of the FIFA President, discussed the major challenges facing modern-day football and the question of the special nature of sport with Richard Caborn, Jaime Lissavetski, Spain’s Secretary of State for Sport, Christoph Bergner, Germa-ny’s Parliamentary State Secretary, and Francisco Ghirelli, General Secretary of the Italian football association, repre-senting Mario Pescante, Italy’s Secretary of State for Sport. Jan Figel (Slovakia), EU Commissioner for Education, Train-ing, Culture and Multilingualism, took part in the debates via teleconference.The football representatives thanked the members of the European political com-munity for their invitation, emphasising the principle of the autonomy of foot-ball as well as the specifi c nature of the sports world, as advocated by European Union texts, especially the Declaration of Nice announced in December 2000.

Hurricane fails to stop FIFAWhen hurricane Wilma hit the coast of Mexico, it surprised FIFA managers who at the time were organizing a Fi-nancial Assistance Programme seminar in Cancun. But it did not stop them. On the third day of the seminar, they heard that the hurricane was expected to reach Cancun and they reacted im-mediately. During a four-hour emer-gency meeting, they decided to hire a plane to take all participants to Mexico City. Everything was organized im-mediately and all seminar participants were swiftly evacuated together with some fortunate families. “There were a few families with children at the air-port desperately trying to get a fl ight out of Cancun so we decided to take them with us” said one of the FIFA de-velopment managers. Once in Mexico city the seminar resumed the next day as if nothing had happened. A hurri-cane passed by, but even the force of nature could not stop football.

Beach soccer in ArgentinaFIFA decided to host its fi rst beach soccer pilot course for coaches and referees in Buenos Aires in October.The course provided instruction for coaches and referees, who divided the time between practical and theoretical exercises. Taking part in the referees course were 15 futsal match offi cials.