FIFA have released their latest world rankings and it’s a bit of a surprise that England, despite their abysmal showing in the World Cup, have risen one place to seventh.
Yesterday FIFA announced the rankings of the 32 teams that competed in South Africa and England were placed 12th so quite how they’ve managed to climb UP the overall rankings is a mystery – but then, the FIFA way of ranking teams has always been a mystery to me, even when I’ve read up on how they do it!
Less surprising is Spain’s new ranking as the best team in the world – they are World and European champions, that’s a no-brainer! Holland have risen to second place, pushing Brazil down to third in the table, their lowest ranking in quite some time.
New Zealand have deservedly risen the most places – 24 places to 54th – after remaining the only unbeaten side in the World Cup. Uruguay rose 10 places to sixth following their fantastic campaign, while deposed world champions Italy dropped six places and out of the top 10 to 11th.
Here’s the revised top ten:
Whereabouts are Ghana then?
Ghana sit very nicely at 23rd, up nine places.