Over many years many so called experts and journalists claimed CQ will only play weak teams so that Iran can be ranked nr 1 in fifa ranking among asian teams.
False news!
Truth is that friendly games vs sierra leone and other teams that had a low fifa ranking weakend Iran ranking, yes you read it right. Iran despite winning the games, lost ranking points. This was becuase CQ didnt care much for ranking but was desperate for friendly games no matter the opponent to strenghten his team.
Fifa ranking during CQ years was calculated true an weighted AVG on a year-by year basis which ment that Iran lost ranking points in friendly games vs sierra leone for instance since they had a much higher weighted avg winning wcq games and asian cup games and even World CUp games.
Not once has anyone written a true article on this issue based on true facts that can be calculted by easy formula for the rankings that exist on wiki
False news!
Truth is that friendly games vs sierra leone and other teams that had a low fifa ranking weakend Iran ranking, yes you read it right. Iran despite winning the games, lost ranking points. This was becuase CQ didnt care much for ranking but was desperate for friendly games no matter the opponent to strenghten his team.
Fifa ranking during CQ years was calculated true an weighted AVG on a year-by year basis which ment that Iran lost ranking points in friendly games vs sierra leone for instance since they had a much higher weighted avg winning wcq games and asian cup games and even World CUp games.
Not once has anyone written a true article on this issue based on true facts that can be calculted by easy formula for the rankings that exist on wiki
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