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WARSAW, Poland. Feb 03 — The Polish national team have risen up one place in the recent Coca-Cola FIFA ranking update.
In this latest rank chart the white-red now find themselves in the 57th position. In turn, in the first top "10" best included the 2010 African champions Egypt join, which thus is the country's best result in history.
For the moment supporters can only dream that the team led by Franciszek Smuda rank classification will soon rise as high as The Pharaohs had.
The Egyptians after winning the CAF 2010 African Cup of Nations™ jumped fourteen spots and occupy the high ranked, tenth place.
In the very forefront of the ranking there are no changes. The first still remains as Spain, and behind - Brazil and the Netherlands.
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I like the way our league is heading actually, we will soon have tons of good mid table clubs, which will force our clubs into hard competition. Tough competition between the league is what will make it improve as opposed to 2 or 3 teams leading the league every year that other countries suffer.
Legia Warsaw, Lech Poznan, Polonia Warsaw, Slask Wroclaw, Ruch Chorzow, Jagiellonia Bialystok, GKS Belchatow, Wisla Krakow, GKS Katowice (maybe if sponsership works out) and Lechia Gdansk.
Sounds like a superb first division! What do you think? Perfect way to enter the new decade imo. Only clubs missing is Gornik Zabrze and Zagielbie Lubin.
"Shamefully low position"? How do you figure. Consider how poorly football is managed in Poland and how corrupt the EK is/was. Let's not forget the lack of proper infrastructure. Also, interest in football is probably at an all time low. There is a general lack of passion for EK teams. Football is not supported well enough to warrant a higher ranking. For us, the level of play in the EK determines where we rank as a nation on a global scale. Relying on foreign clubs to develop our talent has not been working as well as some other countries, perfect example of that is Croatia. Overall, I'd say the FIFA ranking is, unfortunately, reasonably accurate. So we can complain and point out what is wrong with Polish football but at the end of the day it does not change anything. It just adds to the pessimism and defeatist attitude.
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