0 Messi score a brace in Brazil 2014 World cup qualifier against Uruguay.

Lionel Messi netted a brace and Sergio Aguero score the other in Argentina 3-0 victory against Uruguay in Brazil 2014 World cup qualifier. The Barcelona star scored his 6th goals and level the score with Argentina team mate Gonzalo Higuain and Luis Suárez. Sergio Aguero scored the other goal following great effort by Angel Di Maria. Messi have been in great form for international game and was delighted with another three points: "We mustn't forget that Uruguay are the last Copa America champions, therefore this was a big triumph………" He said.

Argentina National Soccer team 2012. Credit to football galleries

Oscar Tabarez was without injured Diego Perez and suspended Alvaro Pereira but Argentina were strong to avoid threat from top strikers Diego Forlan, Luis Suarez and Edison Cavani. Argentina leads the group with 17 points ahead of Ecuador and Colombia by one point. Ecuador beats 9 men Chile 3-, Felipe Caicedo score twice. Colombia hit man, Radamel Falcao scores both 2 goals in 2-0 victory against Paraguay. Loss to Argentina means, Uruguay seat on final automatic qualification position with 12 points same as fifth placed Chile. 

The results means in 222 competition and international friendlies, Argentina have won 100 vs 66 for Uruguay. But the trophies counts is still on favor of Uruguay with 19 trophies (2 world cup, 15 Copa America and 2 olympic) vs Argentina’s 16 trophies (2 World cups, 13 Copa America and 1 Olympic).  

Argentina vs Uruguay Video Highlights all goals 3-0 

 

2 Wayne Rooney brace push him to 5th in all time top scorer as England top group H in Brazil 2014 World cup qualifiers

Wayne Rooney and Danny Welbeck both scored twice at Wembley as England top group H in World Cup 2014 qualifier following 5-0 over San Marino which is ranked 201 below. San Marino lost their 109 match out of 115 played. Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain completed the rout. Rooney has so far scored 31 goals for his country to become 5th in England all time national team scorers moving from 8th position. This come on his first cap as England Captain following John Terry retirement. 

Allan Shear back in June backed Rooney to smashed his record and become all time top scorer. It seems Rooney is right on the course to prove Shear’s statement. Though it is very tough to score 19 goals and beat Bobby Charlton’s record of 49 goals he can still close the gap in these world cup qualifiers. He might as well use the World Cup in Brazil and 2014 European championship in France.

England all time scorers 

Bobby Charlton 49 

Gary Lineker 48 

Jimmy Greaves 44 

Michael Owen 40 

Wayne Rooney 31 

 

England VS San Marino goals summary 

Wayne Rooney – England pen 34' 1-0 

Danny Welbeck - England 36' 2-0 

Wayne Rooney - England 69' 3-0 

Danny Welbeck - England 71' 4-0 

Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain - England 76 5-0

0 FIFA world football ranking: England move to 5th, Colombia back to top 50.

The FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking for October edition has been released today. The edition had 136 matches played including Brazil 2014 world cup qualifiers and international friendly games.The world cup and European champions Spain and Germany still leads in FIFA ranking as world cup finalist Netherlands keeps dropping.

England climb to 5th after two Brazil world cup qualifiers.

England 5-0 win over Moldova and 1-1 draw against Ukraine saw them climb to 5th. There is nothing for Roy Hodgson to celebrate as the move is more due to bad performance of other top five teams including 2011 Copa America champions Uruguay which drawn 2 and beaten 4-0 by Colombia.

Atletico Madrid's hitman Falcao and coach Jose Pekerman impact.

Colombia under Colombia managed to climb back to FIFA ranking top 10 after earning highest points than all the teams (259), first appearance since 2002. The team is under Jose Pekerman coach and their squad has Atletico Madrid hitman Radamel Falcao whose performance has been incredible both at club and national team. So far has scored 3 in World cup qualifiers including in 3-1 win over Chile and 4-0 against Uruguay. 

2014 World cup host worst ranking could affect 2014 performance.

Brazil, the world cup 2014 host had three consecutive wins in international friendly games. As friendly game has less weights/points, hosts have dropped even more to reach record lowest level, 14th. Of the three wins, only 2-1 win against Argentina was convincing but a narrow win against South Africa and 8-0 win over China would not count that much. Not participating in really competition before 2014 could have a negative impact on Brazil performance in the world cup or Mano Menezes need to pick strong teams for friendly games. 

Superb FIFA cocacola raking progress by Central African Republic

The continuous surprise package in the FIFA ranking is Central African Republic. They rise to 49th and in top 50 for the first time, this time up by 15 places. The African Country has been on successive up move for 7th month in a row. One would like to dig and know what is the secret behind. 

FIFA COCACOLA world football ranking October 3rd 2012

Rank	National team	Points	+/- Pos
1	Spain	1611	0
2	Germany	1459	0
3	Portugal	1259	1
4	Argentina	1208	3
5	England	1196	-2
6	Netherlands	1141	2
7	Uruguay	1140	-2
8	Italy	1106	-2
9	Colombia	1102	13
10	Greece	1029	1

1 Neymar net hat-trick as Chelsea midfielder assisted three and score one in Brazil 8-0 win over China in International friendly (Video highlights)

Is name is Neymar, The Samba boy, wonder kid who displayed poacher or goal getter. 

Santos starlet Neymar scores a hat trick as Brazil rout China 8-0 in international friendly as new Chelsea midfielder Oscar displayed wonderful performance with three assists and score from penalty kick. Three Neymar’s goals all came from tap-ins, watch his first goal, second goal and third goal, the tap-ins showing his predator side similar to the likes of Filippo inzaghi and Hernan Crespo.

Neymar was criticized by Brazil fans for under performance in previous game against South Africa when five time world champions won by only 1-0 thanks to new Zenit St Petersburg signing Hulk. Neymar was quoted asking for fans support for the national team. "I do not ask the fans to like me, but I ask them to cheer for the national team." He said. 

South American team under head coach Mano Menezes is busy on friendly game having been exempted from The 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifiers displayed unfriendly performance to China. The results is China’s worse defeat since 5-0 loss to United States in 1992. World cup qualifiers for Brazil 2014 for South American are currently ongoing where as Argentina is leading the CONMEBOL group.

Brazil vs China goals summary 

Ramires - Brazil (22') 1-0 

Neymar - Brazil (25') 2-0 

Lucas - Brazil (49') 3-0 

Hulk - Brazil (52') 4-0 

Neymar - Brazil (54') 5-0 

Neymar - Brazil (60') 6-0 

Jianye Liu - Brazil (OG 70') 7-0 

Oscar (PG 75') 8-0  

Brazil national team before international friendly match vs China. From left to right David Luiz, Dede, Oscar, Marcelo, Lucas Moura, Ramires, Romulo, Diego Alves, Hulk, Daniel Alves, Neymar.  

Brazil first 11:- Diego Alves, Daniel Alves, Dede, David Luiz, Marcelo, Romulo, Ramires, Oscar, Lucas Moura, Neymar, Hulk 

China first 11:- Cheng Zeng, Zhao Peng, Liu Jianye, Yu Yang, Lupeng, Zhao Xuri, Tang Miao, Zhu Ting, Hao Jumin, Gao Lin, Liu Jian Recife, Brazil.

Video Highlights Brazil vs China all goals. Video credit to BestManagerFootball