With small exceptions (namely Denmark, Uruguay, Greece and Turkey) all first 20 teams in the Fifa/Coca-Cola World Ranking will be in Germany. This is great news to all of us, those that love football but our national teams didn;t qualified. At least, we will enjoy the best teams out there.

Not only have the so-called ’smaller’ nations long since closed the gap on the big’ teams in terms of tactics and fitness, but a glance at the current FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking illustrates that the teams who run out in Germany will truly be the créme de la créme.

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