Worst In The World: Poland v. Andorra match Preview

Wednesday, 20 March 2013

Poland v. Andorra match Preview - June 2012

2^nd June 2012 Warsaw

Poland v. Andorra – Friendly

Can Andorra follow up their terrific result against Azerbaijan with what would be the biggest result in their history were defeat to be avoided against soon-to-be Euro 2012 hosts Poland. Odds are, erm, not in their favour.

Poland are ranked 62 in the world currently, although that is am artificially low ranking due to only having played friendlies for that last couple of years ahead of hosting Euro 2012.

This will be the first meeting between the two countries and is the last match for Andorra as an official Worst in the World as they are due to leap up the rankings on publication of the next table.

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It’s all too easy to focus on the successful teams in international football, Spain, Brazil, Germany etc. We all know what’s going on with them, usually winning, and can easily follow their crowning glories on the international stage. But what about life at the other end of the scale?

FIFA’s world rankings allow us to easily see who is officially the worst national football team in the world, and this site simply follows that team (or teams) until they manage to drag themselves kicking and screaming from the foot of the world rankings to be replaced by someone even worse. And then we follow them instead.

In the past the FIFA rankings made it clear who was the very worst of all, as the complex ranking formula rarely caused a tie for last place. Since 2006 the formula has been rather simplified, I won’t go into detail but many factors were removed to make things easier to understand. The result though is that down at the bottom of the rankings we often now have a cluster of ineptitude (or should it be a splat of ineptitude?) with several nations judged to equally as useless as each other for the simple reason that they lose all their games. In the past they’d have received some credit for a narrow defeat against a top side, but no more. To get off the bottom they are going to have to win or draw a match, something that often proves beyond most of them.

We’re here to highlight their struggles against hopelessness, and bring the occasional heart warming story of marginal success.