Argentina is world champion but not before fifa ranking updated after the conclusion of the tournament in Qatar. By the way, maintaining the leadership with which 2022 ends is Neymar Brazil, while the podium is completed by France, another finalist in Doha. For the Italian team – absent from the World Cup – eighth place but still in the Top Ten of the best where they risked until entering Regragui’s astonishing Moroccostopped in eleventh position.
Thus, the World Cup in Qatar gave a jolt to the general classification of the FIFA Ranking of the teams, with earth-shattering movements in some cases, such as the Moroccan team that qualified fourth in the world and literally climbed the ranking ranking up to face a historic entry into the Top Ten: in the end “only” 11th place but still a space of enormous prestige with the final lost against Croatia that however, it allowed us to climb 11 positions🇧🇷 Among the participants of the World Cup, Dalic’s team also performed very well, rising 5 positions and the Netherlands, which won two.
belgium is terrible who leaves the podium and drops to fourth position, but even worse was for the Red Furies of Spain: slightly above Morocco, in 10th place when before the World Cup it had a more reassuring 7th. Italy, who did not participate in the championship tournament maintained their position in the Top Ten, although they lost two places. Not bad, with the Azzurri who will now start again with the enthusiasm rediscovered by coach Mancini after the last positive phase.
But what has left me most amazed is the first place in Brazil, came out of the World Cup badly to the detriment of world champions Argentina, who only had to settle for second place. A ‘smack’ that in South America was experienced as a little green gold revenge against its historic rivals and that hides a precise motivation. The parameters used by FIFA to determine the rankings they were developed and implemented recently, in 2018 and make use of various elements, including the results of the last 4 years for which FIFA assigns different weight to victories taking into account the value of the opponent and the tournament.
Today, after the World Cup, the two teams are separated by just over 2 points (1840.77 against 1838.38) and the only way for the Selection to defeat the Selection would be to beat France in 90 minutes: at that point he would have scored higher, outperforming his historic rivals even slightly. Therefore, if Mbappè had not woken up in the 2nd half and in extra time forcing the Argentines to shoot from 11 meters, everything would have been different today. And instead of that, the paradox was created of Brazil first in the Ranking ahead of Argentina, second, even though world champion. A bit like the one that recently saw Belgium dominate the top spot for 4 years, without ever having won a trophy.
The FIFA Ranking Top Ten updated after the World Cup
- Brazil: 1840.77 points ( = )
- Argentina: 1838.38 points (+1)
- France: 1823.39 points (+1)
- Belgium: 1,781.30 points (-2)
- England: 1774.19 points (0)
- Netherlands: 1740.92 points (+2)
- Croatia: 1727.52 points (+5)
- Italy: 1723.56 points (-2)
- Portugal: 1702.54 points (0)
- Spain: 1692.71 points 8 – 3)
Source: Fan Page IT
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