Voulgaroktonos
05-03-2008, 05:28 AM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unofficial_Football_World_Championships
The Unofficial Football World Championships (UFWC) is a way of calculating the world's best football team, using a knock-out title system similar to that used in boxing and wrestling. The title is currently held by Greece, and will next be challenged for by Cyprus in a friendly match on 19 May 2008.
The idea stemmed originally from some Scotland fans jokingly asserting that as they beat England (who had won the 1966 World Cup) in a British Home Championship match on April 15, 1967 - England's first loss after their World Cup victory - they were the Unofficial World Champions.
Many years later, a website was created to show results of research triggered by this idea. The website was featured in respected football magazine FourFourTwo, which gained it extra publicity. The FourFourTwo feature also suggested the compilation of an unofficial clubs' world championship.
It is not FIFA-sanctioned, nor does it have any sort of official backing.
The Unofficial Football World Championships (UFWC) is a way of calculating the world's best football team, using a knock-out title system similar to that used in boxing and wrestling. The title is currently held by Greece, and will next be challenged for by Cyprus in a friendly match on 19 May 2008.
The idea stemmed originally from some Scotland fans jokingly asserting that as they beat England (who had won the 1966 World Cup) in a British Home Championship match on April 15, 1967 - England's first loss after their World Cup victory - they were the Unofficial World Champions.
Many years later, a website was created to show results of research triggered by this idea. The website was featured in respected football magazine FourFourTwo, which gained it extra publicity. The FourFourTwo feature also suggested the compilation of an unofficial clubs' world championship.
It is not FIFA-sanctioned, nor does it have any sort of official backing.