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Reactions: World Soccer Top 10 Users sound off on last week's rankings
Posted: Monday January 17, 2000 05:38 PM
CNN and World Soccer magazine release their votes each Monday for the Top 10 football club worldwide, and we want to know your opinion. Below is a selection of some of the best feedback from the last week. Check back next week to see the response to this week's Top 10.
This ranking isn't the real standings in ALL the world. Brazilian teams have won last 4 or 5 South American championships; (Libertadores and Mercosur) however there is always an Argentine club up on ranking.
Vasco and Corinthians showed they're better teams than MU and your poll doesn't show this. You need to revise your ranking system!
Corinthians must be the number one of the ranking, because won the FIFA Club World Championship.
As a ManUTD fan, it's fair to see United losing the top spot, but it's not fare that Lazio are on top. I think Juve or Corinthians should be there. Barca at 6th? Hmm .. Deportive at 9th? Weird.
I don't think that Manchester United still deserve to be in the top 10 after their bad performance in Brazil during the Club Championships. I am hoping that they will now concentrate with local games because it will also not be easy at home for them.
Barcelona is the best team in the world. They deserve to be #1 on every top 10 chart, second place should be Manchester Utd and third Leeds.
Winning the inaugural FIFA Club World Championship of course Corinthians should top this list. It showed a great variety of tactical schemes, neutralizing Vasco's attack litigation, besides having the best player of the tournament, Edilson and the most complete athlete in soccer, Rincon. A team that should drop immediately is Man United, that showed who they really are in comparison with Brazilian teams. Just note that the Brazilian Champion is the World Champion.
How could people not vote for Corinthians to be in the top 10? Amazing! They mowed down virtually every team in the Brazilian nationals.
In the case of Manchester United, I think it's just a case of one tournament too many. In fact, they should have played in the FA Cup not the World Club Championship.
ManU is over rated. They should have never been on top anyway. They have no comparison to Italian clubs.
I'm sure of one fact, Corinthians should move to the top of CNN/World soccer top 10 ranking. At least in front of Vasco and Manchester United. The team is 2-year consecutive champion of the most important national soccer championship and the first FIFA world club champion in history.
I'm a little disturbed that the voters of this poll are so reluctant to give more points to Brazilian, Argentine, and Mexican teams. Corinthians and Vasco showed that they are at least as good as 2 of the most successful European giants. I think the stigma is due to the fact that the European teams have larger wallets and more international stars. I don't think that should be a factor. Vasco and Corinthians have shown that they have a valid claim as the two best teams in the world at this moment.
The World Club Tournament proved that clubs from Brazil and many other countries are as good or even better than the Europeans and they earned a place in the top ten.
Now we have those that say the Brazilian teams are the best in the world.
Corinthians were only able to get the tie, at "home" mind you, against Real Madrid...a struggling team in the Primera. For this very reason teams like Zaragoza, who beat 1-5 at Madrid, and Barcelona deserve ahead of Corinthians.
This is to everyone who is so eager to jump all over Man U when they have one slip up. Everyone sits there and talks about them only being the best in Europe, and not being the best in the world due to there loss in the Club Championship, but everyone seems to forget that the Champions League is made up of all the top teams in every league, and it is the real sure test, due to the fact that if you have a bad week, or an unfortunate break, you aren't eliminated. Everyone just sits back and waits for Man U to have a slip up, and then they are all over them, but when they dominate, where are all those people that were critics, they are all at home eating there words, and when Man U wins the Champions League again, they will realize that Man U is the best team in the world, and they are only looking for an excuse to get on the best team in club soccer today.
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