Five-time World Cup winners and the most successful National team in football history Samba boys of Brazil with 1832.69 points ahead of tomorrow’s World Cup draws in Doha has regained the number spot from Belgium in the new FIFA rankings released yesterday.
The latest rankings show that Belgium, the 2018 World Cup’s third-place winner in Russia who was toppled by Brazil with total points of 1827.00 now occupies the second position. Current World Champions, France takes the third position with 1789.85.
In the fourth position with 1765.13 is two time World Champions, Argentina, 1966 World Cup Champions, three lions of England are in the fifth position with 1761.71.
Four-time World Cup winners the Azzuri of Italy takes the sixth position with 1723. 31 points. 2010 World Champions and 2016 European Cup winners, Spain and Portugal occurred in the seventh and eighth positions in that order, while Mexico and the Netherlands the 1974 and 1978 finalists are in the ninth and tenth positions respectively.
In Africa occupying the twentieth position in the World the reigning African Champions, the Teranga Lions of Senegal are the highest-ranked National team in Africa. Atlas lions of Morocco who are in the 24 position in the World are number two team in the Continent, inspite of losing out of the World Cup qualifications, the Super Eagles of Nigeria who occupies 30 position in the World are third best placed team in Africa. Pharaohs of Egypt, Carthage Eagles of Tunisia, Desert Foxes of Algeria and Black Stars of Ghana are in the fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh respectively.