Criticism towards the German team continues to come. In his TikTok show “Kroos and Kroos: World Cup under the Microscope,” Toni Kroos (36), the most successful German club football player of all time and the 2014 World Cup champion, now questions the quality of the players: “We don’t have a single world-class player right now. We have players with world-class potential. But this does not mean that they are world class. World class players are currently deciding all World Cup matches. In the list of scorers, where there are world-class players, we don’t have one, we have to be honest about this.”
FIFA World Rankings: World Cup Biggest Winners – Where does Germany stand?
Yes. This is also reflected in the FIFA rankings.
Germany dropped from tenth place to twelfth.
- Only two world champions are ranked worse than the four-time title holder from Germany: Italy in 14th place – the Squadra Azzurra, who failed to qualify for the 2026 World Cup, have lost two more places in the table – and Uruguay in nineteenth.
After being eliminated from the preliminary round, Celeste even dropped three positions.
Jumped ahead by ten positions
Norway took a whole ten places at this World Championships – “Vikings” rowing against Côte d’Ivoire (2:1, read in the live blog
Fussballdaten.de) in 21st place.
They left Bundesliga idol Jan Age Fjortoft moved to tears Goodbye-TV studio in Salzburg: “This is sport, we are a small country and we don’t need to be nervous against Brazil.”
No, you don’t need them.
- Although during the finals in North America, Brazil moved up one place to fifth place.
Paraguay, who conquered Germany, moved up seven places – from 41 to 34. After winning the penalty shoot-out in Boston, incredible celebrations unfolded in the South American country.
England’s opponents Democratic Republic of the Congo took a set for the first time to reach the knockout stage and moved up five places to 41st.
France topped the FIFA world rankings with a comfortable 3-0 win over Sweden in New York, ahead of world champions Argentina and Spain.