Greatest Soccer Nation

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The Top Ten

1Brazil
5 world cup wins, countless legendary players, and is recognized as the best by most of the world
Only country not have missed a world cup (record impossible to be matched now), 5 championships in their pocket, no fear for any other team, players such Pele with 3 world cups wins... I respect Germany, Italy, Argentina, Spain, Argentina, but there is no equivalent to Brazil yet. Almost a third of all world cups won by this nation, amazing!
I am certainly no fan of Brazil in soccer, but even I must admit that, historically, they are the greatest. First of all, they have the most World Cup titles. Second, they are tied first in appearances in the Final. Third, they have qualified for every single tournament-also first place there. In conclusion, they are first in every relevant statistic and, though Germany comes close, there is just no beating Brazil.

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2Germany
Germany is way better than Brazil they beat them 3:2 in Suttgart while outplaying them.
Also Germany is 2nd in FIFA-Rankings, Brazil only 14th!
Germany have won more first, second, and third place titles in Fifa world cups than any other team in the world. Although they haven't taken first most, they are the most consistent team. They don't have star players that carry the team, but use strategy to overcome their opponents. Also, their average age is like 23!
Football is a sport where luck always will be a part of the game. Germany mostly anytime was a member of the close finalists like, I guess, any other nation. After almost 120 years of football history, germany has proven to be one of the most consistent nations in football history, even if they didn't win a title every time. But how I've said in the first sentence, football includes a lot of luck.
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3Italy
ITALY better than germany. Listen it doesn't matter how many times you reach the final, a win IN THE FINAL IS WORTH 10X A LOSS IN POINTS. You didn't see spain share the spotlight with holland because holland reached the final more than spain. ALSO besides italy 4 germany 3 (world cups) GERMANY HAS NEVER WON ITALY! In recent memory, Italy has always won them.. EURO RECORDS don't MATTER fifa world cup the only metric measurement and ITALY ARE FAR BETTER!
Baggio, Totti, Maldini, Buffon, Cannavaro, Conti, Rivera we are the best team
Italy and Brazil! Can't stand how great Mexico thinks they are.
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4Argentina
Argentina lives and breathes football. They continue to produce amazing players, from both argentina and from other countries, through their local leagues: think of messi (newells), aguero (independiente), falcao (river. These are just a few examples

not to mention a history with some of the greatest players of all time
Definitely argentina because of their creativity and speed in attack like "messi, dimaria, aguero, tevez, crespo, maradona"... Argentine players have best ball control, argentine defenders even have better ball control than european strikers... They r also world best dribblers like messi, maradona, dimaria etc.
Argentina deserve to be in the second place after Brazil. I'm talking about tradition and the quality of players are they produced over the decades. ex: Alfredo de stefano, Maradona(God of Soccer), Messi, Batistuta, Burruchaga, Valdano, Cannigia,
Bilardo... endless list.
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5Spain
Hasn't been as strong as other nations in the past, but is quickly becoming the strongest soccer nation on the planet.
there national team has too many amazing players, not sure through history, but right now amazIng
Real Madrid, FC Barcelona

preachinpreach

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6England
The last time England played Brazil and Spain (the supossed 2 best football countries in the world)they beat both of them
OK, spain have the best team in the world currently but in history they have just one major legend, Di Stefano. England have loads, Bobby Moore, Bobby Charlton, Duncan Edwards, Jimmy Greaves, Alan Shearer, Gary Linekar ect...

sam11855

rooney gerrard lampard terry ferdinand james=england which=greatness

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7Netherlands

2 time world cup finalists and the 1988 Euro cup winners - consistently ranked amongst the top when it comes to fifa and elo world rankings- considered the best team never to have won the world cup - has generated some of the best players the game has ever seen - examples: cruyff, neeskens, bergkamp and van nistelrooy - all coming from a relatively small nation of just over 16 million - that compared to the 160 million brazilians - in other words... per capita, holland is tops when it comes to footballing quality - remember total football!

Without a doubt one of the greatest teams in the history of Voetbal, VIVA HOLLANDIA!

Netherlands is currently rated number one team in the world according to FIFA...

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8France
France should definitely be in the top 5. I like to think that any football tournament before the 70s should not really count because back then, only a few nations competed and the organization was awful, giving the teams that cared the most the best chance (italy, england, uruguay, brazil... ) France used to be horrible because they really did not care, and as a result not many people give them a change. However, if you look at their modern performance, they are definitely one of the greatest football nations ever. Euro 1984 winners, 1998 world cup winners, euro 2000 winners, confederation cup winners 2001 and 2003, world cup finalists in 2006 (which they frankly should have won)... I would honestly that France's 1998 through 2001 team was the second best team in the history of football, second only to Spain's current team. Of course, Brazil dominated in the earlier part of the 20th century, but if you look at the competition back then, it really is not saying much. Now, with all the best players being payed ridiculous amounts of cash and playing high level soccer in youth academies/clubs etc, the best each nation has to offer is put to the test, more so than before. And with that, you have to give France credit where credit is due. They have produced better players recently than most other nations. Those are my two cents.
Zidane, Henry, Thuram, Barthez, Vieira

preachinpreach

France were one of the first nations to play football they were always in the top 50 France has so many titles to there name and produced the greatest football players of time including players like zidane, platini, Raymond kopa one of the greatest goalkeepers ever barthez france truly is a great football nation

9Portugal

Let's take population size into consideration. Portugal has only 10 million people, but currently has two world-class trainers, in the premier league as well as Cristiano Ronaldo possibly the best player in the world, and a host of other world-class and premier-league players (Meirelles, Postiga, Pauleta, etc.. ).

Portugal had and has legendary players such as Eusebio, Luis Figo, Cristiano Ronaldo, and many others. Even though they never won any World Cup, they are definitely in top 10.

10Mexico
Mexico is flat out a new super power in the soccer world. With talent like Dos Santos, Barrera, Guardado, Hernandez and many more I think they will soon see a WC title. Viva Mexico carbrones!
Without A Doubt the best and nothing can beat us as long as we have that great Mexican Pride. One day we will hold up WC Title and we will be the best in the world! VIVA MEXICO!
Mexico keeps producing a lot of young players to great levels, it's only a matter of bringing them together with good management and they will rival any country of the world.
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The Contenders

11Uruguay

How can you forget the team who have won 2 World Cups and 15 times winners of the Copa America (South American Championship).

sam11855

WITH ONLY 3 MILLION PEOPLE AND CURRENTLY 4TH IN THE WORLD, THIS COUNTRY HAS TO BE THE BEST IN THE WORLD BY FAR.
SORRY BRAZIL, GERMANY, POOR EXCUSE FOR SOCCER ARGENTINA..

12Turkey

Umm... Turkey is an amazing country, but my question is... WHERE THE HE. LL IS GHANA!

Turkey is a growing soccer power, they already finished third in the world. They have so many talented players who are playing all over for the world's best teams.


13Bulgaria
Stoichkov, Berbatov, Balakov... CSKA Sofia

14Croatia

Once agian Croatia is under rated, they diserve a much higher ranking as they beat many high-leved team.

Croatia is currently 7th in the world, 3rd in the world cup in 1998, only 4 million people, plus 160 in goals overall. Croatia is also undefeated against Italy.

15Ghana
Ghana is four time Africa champion and for past eight years has been shaking world by wining against some countries USA, Brazil, England, Nigeria and rest. In fact, Ghana is the only Africa country that stand a chance to win the World cup before any country in Africa. No wonder soccer is major sports in Africa, especially Ghana. Go Ghana Go.
GHANA is really good they are powerful there like about 11th place they are amazing there Quality is amazing

16South Korea
Korean Soccer team got the brown medal in the England Olympic this year.
South Korea is the best soccer nation in asia
Korea came 4th in 2002 world cup

17Japan

18Sweden
Zlatan

19Czech Republic

20Nigeria

21Australia

the only reason they didn't get to the world cup final is because italy cheated by faking a trip

22Canada

23Egypt
Egypt is the only nation that won its contents cup of Africa 7 times and all the Arab are saying Egypt should take 10 so how wort this sucks in soccer

24Scotland

25New Zealand

26Russia

27Ireland

28Pakistan

29Chile

30Wales

31Ivory Coast

32San Marino

33Guatemala

34Serbia

35Slovakia

36Montengero

37UAE

38Switzerland

39Algeria

Only Arab country that went into the world cup three times.
Ranked currently 19

40Palestine

We're gonna get the world cup 2014 I guarantee it. Swag

41Faroe Islands

42Nepal
It will better in future

43North Korea

44U.S.A.
The U.S. team is awesome
I am mostly regarding to the woman. 2 world cups by the way. In addition the birth of the MLS in 1997

preachinpreach

The most dominant international soccer team of all time (men or women) is the U.S. A women. They have never finished worse than 3rd in a world cup. Therefore the U.S. A is the greatest soccer nation.
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45Romania

46Iran
Iran, king of asia
my love

47Bosnia and Herzegovina

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