The 10 most valuable national teams in the world

Qualifying for the World Cup 2010 in South Africa has
been extremely difficult to overcome by the teams
they play some of the major stars of world football.
Going through major difficulties are the likes of Argentina's
Messi, Portugal's Cristiano Ronaldo and Zlatan Ibrahimovic of
Sweden, the latter, the selection is more likely to stay out of the
next world, where the last round of qualifying takes place with
no surprises.

As always happened in several skills, not always the teams that
bring together the best and most valuable players are those that
qualify for the tournament, this time we seek to know what the
teams who meet the highest economic value through the
assessment of their passes players. To perform this study, we
evaluated the economic rights of 25 players used by each team in qualifying for the World Cup 2010, thus
reaching the ranking of the 10 most valuable teams in the world in terms of economic value of their players.

Currently, Puyol, Pique, Cesc Fabregas, Xavi, Iniesta, Busquets and Capdevila are players produced in FCBarcelona and RCD Espanyol academies!

1. Spain - 510 million Euros (average per player 20.4 M €) (1. FIFA Ranking 2nd place)
2. Brazil - 450 million Euros (average per player 17.9 M €) (FIFA Ranking 1st place)
3. France - 440 million Euros (average per player 17.6 M €) (FIFA ranking 10th place)

4. England - 420 million Euros (average per player 4. 16.8 M €) (FIFA ranking 7th place)
5. Italy - 400 million Euros (average per player 16 M €) (FIFA Ranking 4th place)
6. Argentina - 390 million Euros (average per player 15.6 M €) (FIFA Ranking 8th place)
7. Portugal - 340 million Euros (average per player 13.6 M €) (FIFA ranking 17th place)
8. Germany - 290 million Euros (average per player 11.6 M €) (FIFA Ranking 4th place)
9. Netherlands - 280 million Euros (average per player 11.2 M €) (FIFA Ranking 3rd place)
10. Russia - 210 million Euros (average per player 8.4 M €) (FIFA Ranking 6th place)

Regardless of the value of the players, win games and collect points remains the only way to attend the biggest
event of World Cup, although not all teams can transform the potential and economic value of their players wins.
When we compare the position of the 10 most valuable teams, with the current ranking of teams of FIFA (who
scores the teams based on their playing), we get an idea of the current difference between financial value and
sporting prowess of each selection.

Source: "Futebol Finance: www.futeblofinance.com" 12 October 2009