rednaz23: But you don't want to tell us that being 5th in the FIFA ranking means they are currently the 5th best team in the world, do you?

What you have to take into consideration when you look at these rankings is what are they based on. It's mostly the WC qualifiers and qualifiers to continental championships. Now there you see why Mexico is 4th and the USA 5th even though both of these teams are about as strong as an average European team (like Turkey, Romania, Norway, Greece). And when you play Panama, Guatemala, Trinidad and Tobago, Costa Rica, Honduras or Jamaica in the qualifiers, it's not that hard to have great results.