i understood tha the host teams get into the tourney, but they are number 1 seeds also?this system is full of fail
Yeah fail system is fail. But it does create pretty awesome groups of death.NetherlandsFranceItalyRomania.All teams that have a good chance of winning it.
It makes for a better atmosphere when the hosts stay in the tournament longer - like in Germany 06. But yeah - Austria and Switzerland are bullshit teams, really boring to watch.
Where's the screen grab from? I don't think those numbers are seeding, more likely order of qualification.
All seedings is shit.
>>128935http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UEFA_Euro_2008_seeding
>>128946<<Uefa
>>128930this wasn't that bad, considering Romania was in the same pot as Germany, Portugal, and Spainso you could have had this:ItalyFranceNetherlandsGermanymegalulz if that had happened
but those seedings make no sense
Switzerland likely could have qualified for 2008 had they not been a host. Austria, no chance in hell. But the Swiss have a young foundation building.
>>128996But they certainly aren't good enough to win anything.
the seeding is fixed or england would be in
Why do amerifags try and "rank" football. This isn't college football, or some espn talking head evaluating the NFL teams.
>>129347You think Amerifags rank football let alone even care about it?Last I checked FIFA ranked national teams as well. Check on their website or something.
>>129353yeah but no one ever references FIFA rankings except for dumbfucks on Sportscenter whenever the World Cup is about to start.
>>129353The last person that tried to reference the FIFA rankings as an accurate measure of how good a team is got laughed at, on live tv.
Doesn't really matter, Spain will win it anyway.