^ lol what?

So these are the latest standings

Europe

Group 1

	Team	MP	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts
	Denmark	5	4	1	0	12	2	13
	Hungary	6	4	1	1	8	2	13
	Portugal	5	1	3	1	6	3	6
	Sweden	4	1	3	0	2	1	6
	Albania	7	1	3	3	3	6	6
	Malta	7	0	1	6	0	17	1

Group 2

	Team	MP	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts
	Greece	6	4	1	1	12	4	13
	Switzerland	6	4	1	1	11	6	13
	Latvia	6	3	1	2	10	6	10
	Israel	6	2	3	1	10	8	9
	Luxembourg	6	1	1	4	3	13	4
	Moldova	6	0	1	5	2	11	1

Group 3

	Team	MP	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts
	Northern Ireland	7	4	1	2	12	6	13
	Slovakia	5	4	0	1	10	6	12
	Poland	6	3	1	2	18	7	10
	Czech Republic	6	2	2	2	6	4	8
	Slovenia	6	2	2	2	5	4	8
	San Marino	6	0	0	6	1	25	0

Group 4

	Team	MP	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts
	Germany	6	5	1	0	18	4	16
	Russia	5	4	0	1	9	3	12
	Finland	4	2	1	1	6	6	7
	Wales	6	2	0	4	4	7	6
	Azerbaijan	4	0	1	3	0	4	1
	Liechtenstein	5	0	1	4	0	13	1

Group 5

	Team	MP	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts
	Spain	6	6	0	0	13	2	18
	Bosnia-Herzegovina	6	4	0	2	18	7	12
	Turkey	6	2	2	2	6	5	8
	Belgium	6	2	1	3	10	11	7
	Estonia	6	1	2	3	5	15	5
	Armenia	6	0	1	5	3	15	1

Group 6

	Team	MP	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts
	England	5	5	0	0	16	4	15
	Croatia	5	3	1	1	10	4	10
	Ukraine	4	2	1	1	5	3	7
	Belarus	4	2	0	2	9	6	6
	Kazakhstan	5	1	0	4	6	16	3
	Andorra	5	0	0	5	1	14	0

Group 7

	Team	MP	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts
	Serbia	5	4	0	1	12	5	12
	France	5	3	1	1	7	6	10
	Lithuania	6	3	0	3	6	5	9
	Austria	5	2	1	2	7	8	7
	Romania	5	1	1	3	6	10	4
	Faroe Islands	4	0	1	3	1	5	1

Group 8

	Team	MP	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts
	Italy	6	4	2	0	9	3	14
	Republic of Ireland	6	3	3	0	7	4	12
	Bulgaria	5	1	4	0	5	3	7
	Cyprus	5	1	1	3	4	7	4
	Montenegro	5	0	3	2	3	6	3
	Georgia	7	0	3	4	4	9	3

	Team	MP	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts
	Netherlands	5	5	0	0	12	1	15
	Scotland	5	2	1	2	4	6	7
	Iceland	5	1	1	3	5	8	4
	FYR Macedonia	4	1	0	3	2	7	3
	Norway	3	0	2	1	2	3	2

Africa

Group A

	Team	MP	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts
	Gabon	1	1	0	0	2	1	3
	Togo	1	1	0	0	1	0	3
	Morocco	1	0	0	1	1	2	0
	Cameroon	1	0	0	1	0	1	0

Group B

	Team	MP	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts
	Tunisia	1	1	0	0	2	1	3
	Mozambique	1	0	1	0	0	0	1
	Nigeria	1	0	1	0	0	0	1
	Kenya	1	0	0	1	1	2	0

Group C

	Team	MP	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts
	Egypt	1	0	1	0	1	1	1
	Zambia	1	0	1	0	1	1	1
	Algeria	1	0	1	0	0	0	1
	Rwanda	1	0	1	0	0	0	1

Group D

	Team	MP	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts
	Ghana	1	1	0	0	1	0	3
	Mali	1	0	1	0	1	1	1
	Sudan	1	0	1	0	1	1	1
	Benin	1	0	0	1	0	1	0

Group E

	Team	MP	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts
	Côte d'Ivoire	1	1	0	0	5	0	3
	Burkina Faso	1	1	0	0	4	2	3
	Guinea	1	0	0	1	2	4	0
	Malawi	1	0	0	1	0	5	0

Asia

Group 1

	Team	MP	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts
	Australia	5	4	1	0	8	0	13
	Japan	5	3	2	0	8	3	11
	Bahrain	6	2	1	3	5	6	7
	Uzbekistan	6	1	1	4	5	8	4
	Qatar	6	1	1	4	4	13	4

	Team	MP	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts
	Korea Republic	5	3	2	0	9	3	11
	Korea DPR	6	3	1	2	7	5	10
	Saudi Arabia	6	3	1	2	8	8	10
	Iran	5	1	3	1	6	6	6
	United Arab Emirates	6	0	1	5	6	14	1

North america

	Team	MP	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts
	USA	3	2	1	0	7	2	7
	Costa Rica	3	2	0	1	3	2	6
	Honduras	3	1	1	1	4	4	4
	Mexico	3	1	0	2	3	5	3
	El Salvador	3	0	2	1	4	5	2
	Trinidad and Tobago	3	0	2	1	3	6	2

Oceania

	Team	MP	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts
	New Zealand	6	5	0	1	14	5	15
	New Caledonia	6	2	2	2	12	10	8
	Fiji	6	2	1	3	8	11	7
	Vanuatu	6	1	1	4	5	13	4

SA

	Team	MP	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts
	Paraguay	12	7	3	2	19	9	24
	Brazil	12	5	6	1	19	5	21
	Chile	12	6	2	4	17	14	20
	Argentina	12	5	4	3	18	13	19
	Uruguay	12	4	5	3	21	10	17
	Colombia	12	3	5	4	6	10	14
	Ecuador	12	3	5	4	14	19	14
	Venezuela	12	4	1	7	14	22	13
	Bolivia	12	3	3	6	19	25	12
	Peru	12	1	4	7	6	26	7

Israel is a European country?

Israel is an Asian country, but they are still allowed to play in European Leagues.

They look up to us and want to belong to the western world. We allow them to.

Kazakhstan is to aparently.

 A small part of western Kazakhstan is a part Europe. Israel is not.

EU surprises so far:
- Denmark and Hungary (!) in front of Portugal (EU group 1)
- Czech Republic only on place 4 in their group (EU 3)
- Bosnia-Herzegovina on place 2, four points ahead of Turkey (EU 5)
- Romania only on place 5 (!) in their group (EU 7)
- Norway on last place (!) in their group
(EU 9; did no one tell them that place 2 in this group of only 5 teams still gives you the chance to proceed to the play-off if you're among the 8 out of 9 best runner-ups?)
- France would really be in trouble right now if they hadn't an exceptional player called Franck Ribéry (he decided the last two games for his country)
- England won 5 out of 5 games in a not-so-weak group with Croatia and Ukraine; Capello seems to fit better than his two unlucky predecessors

Africa: too early to tell (but I hope Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire will win their groups)

NA: USA in the lead is no real surprise, I think Mexico only on place 4 is the real surprise at the moment (but only 3 games played until now, still 7 to go)

Asia, Oceania: no surprises, I guess

SA: close competition

A question to the South-American members:
Paraguay in the lead seems to be a surprise to me, but I'm not sure if it's really one. Where they already that strong during the past few years?

Paraguay has always been good, but they are having a great time now, better than they usually have. But no real surprises here in SA, just that Brazil and Argentina should be doing better(brazil cant seem to play good and argentina looses to countries they shouldnt)

Paraguay has always been the third strongest country in SA after Brazil and Argentina, now that both teams suck, Paraguay has taken the lead. They have a great team (interestingly, they have like 5 argentinians playing for their national team too), so it's not really a surprise, the surprises are how bad Argentina and Brazil are doing, how good Chile is doing and the very few points Ecuador has (though, after seeing their match against Brazil where they had 20 shots and scored only once, it's no wonder)