Since the last FIFA ranking Poland has worsen its position by four places and currently is on 24. position.

On the first twenty positions only Ghana moved from 14. place to 15. and Colombia took Poland's 20. place.

From Polish rivals in UEFA EURO Cup 2008 ranked the highest is Germany - 5th position. Croatia is 12th and Austria - 88th (was 84th).

FIFA ranking for 13th February 2008 (in brackets previous position):

Today Poland played against Estonia. Leo Beenhakker continues testing of the players playing in Orange Ekstraklasa and as he has the unique ability to find out new football talents, we could see the whole new group of players.

None of the Polish players in this match had played more than 12 matches in Polish national team and some of them were completely unknown.

The match started with good oportunity to score in 2. minute after free-kick of Michal Golinski, but the ball hit the post.

In 11. minute Kamil Grosicki passed the ball to Radoslaw Matusiak, but Pavel Landak - Estonian goalkeeper was faster. He has shown again that he's the most active player of Estonian team again in 20. minute when he blocked Matusiak again.

Estonians started to do actually something on the field after about 25 minutes of the play. Two shoots on Polish goal were defended by Groclin goalkeeper - Sebastian Przyrowski.

In 38. Radoslaw Matusiak scored the first goal for Polish team after corner kick by Lukasz Gargula. These two guys know each other really well and they always show it on the field. Too bad for Wisla Krakow, that they didn't try more to get Gargula in this transfer window.

The second half of the match started with another good oportunity for Polish team, but the good centre by Tomasz Lisowski was missed by few inches by Grosicki.

In 63. minute Leo Beenhakker did several changes - Pawelec, Zienczuk, Grosicki and Gargula were substituted by Kuklis, Zahorski, Golos and Majewski. Tomasz Zahorski has scored second goal in 72. minute after another corner kick.

During the last 10 minutes of the match Polish national team was playing with only 10 players - Radoslaw Matusiak has been injuried in 80. minute and Leo Beenhakker had used all of available substitutions. It didn't prevent Polish team from securing the score and the match has ended with Polish victory 2:0.

It was the third victory in a row after wins over Findland (1:0) and Czech republic (2:0) this year. Although Estonia is just 125. in FIFA ranking (while Poland is currently 20.), another Polish victory is good sign before EURO 2008. It looks like Leo Beenhakker has his idea of the national team and (what's more important) he knows how to share this idea with Polish players.

Let's hope that this idea won't just end on group stage on Euro 2008...

Since the last FIFA ranking Poland has been promoted by three places and currently is on 20. position.

First nine places are without changes. We can see a lot of movements of African teams after recently finished Africa Cup of Nations. The bronze-medallist Ghana has been promoted from 43. position to 19.

From Polish rivals in UEFA EURO Cup 2008 ranked the highest is Germany - 5th position. Croatia is 12th and Austria - 84th.

FIFA ranking for 13th February 2008 (in brackets previous position):

In the newest FIFA ranking Poland has been placed on 23rd position. Polish team is one position lower than in previous ranking.

The number one of this first ranking of the year 2008 is Argentina, followed by Brazil, current world champions - Italy and Spain. There were no changes on these top places in the ranking.

From Polish rivals in UEFA EURO Cup 2008 ranked the highest is Germany - 5th position. Croatia is 10th and Austria - 90th.

Czech Republic is the strongest Polish rival in upcoming qualifications for World Cup 2010 - it is 6th. Northern Ireland is 32th, Slovakia - 54th, Slovenia - 81st and San Marino - 197th

The next FIFA ranking is going to be announced on 13th February 2008.

FIFA ranking for 16th January 2008 (in brackets previous position):

After 3 hours of negotiations, the football federations of the countries playing in group 3 of World Cup 2010 Qualifications have managed to agree upon the games schedule.

- We had the agreement after 40 minutes. Yesterday evening we created the coalition with Czechs and that's why we agreed about our matches very quickly. I'm glad, because we have fulfilled our plan in 100%. - said right after the end of the meeting the President of Polish Football Association, Michał Listkiewicz.

The white-and-red are going to play four matches this autumn. The qualifications will begin with a match Poland - Slovenia. In October, Leo Beenhakker's team will play at home with Czech Republic and the re-match has been planned for October 2009. The qualifications will end with Poland - Slovakia match.

- By the negotiation table, the coaches of Poland and Czech Republic played a significant role. We could feel how much respect they all have for Leo Beenhakker. There were some problems caused by Slovenians, but finally they have also managed to find a common language with other federations. - summarized the negotiations M. Listkiewicz.

The fixtures of Polish matches in the qualifications:

2008
6.09 Poland – Slovenia
10.09 San Marino – Poland
11.10 Poland – Czech Republic
15.10 Slovakia – Poland

2009
28.03 N. Ireland – Poland
1.04 Poland – San Marino
5.09 Poland – N. Ireland
9.09 Slovenia – Poland
10.10 Czech Republic – Poland
14.10 Poland - Slovakia