«Al Jazeera» – Game:
World champions France has dropped to fourth in the world rankings released by the International Football Federations (FIFA) this month after their disappointing results in the European Nations League.
France failed to win four of its matches in the third edition of the modern continental competition, as it lost 1–2 to Denmark and Croatia and drew 1–1 to Austria and Croatia.
France handed over the title achieved in the second edition, and is in the final fourth place with two points behind leaders Denmark (9 points), second Austria (7 points) and third Croatia (5 points).
And France has found itself in the trap of defending its chances of staying in the first level as the last-ranked man is relegated to the second level.
Argentina benefited from the French’s disappointing results and were stripped of third place in the classification, which Brazil maintained its lead against Belgium, as it was drawn from the latter in the final classification released last March.
Spain rose to sixth place at the expense of Italy, the Netherlands from tenth to eighth at the expense of Portugal and Italy, Denmark tenth and Germany eleventh at the expense of Mexico, falling three places to twelfth.
In the Arab world, Morocco held the lead and moved up two places from twenty-fourth to twenty-fourth place, ahead of Tunisia, which rose 5 places to thirty-five, and Egypt, which dropped eight places, the biggest drop on the list from Malaysia. , and placed 40th ahead of Algeria, which climbed three places.
Saudi Arabia fell four places and the United Arab Emirates (69, -1), Iraq (70, +2), Oman (75 left), Bahrain (85 stayed), Jordan (86, -5), Syria (89, – 1) and Palestine (94, + 6) and Lebanon (100, -3).
Earlier this month, the international window saw the establishment of qualifiers and qualifying supplements for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, nations leagues in the EU and CONCACAF regions, qualifiers for the African and Asian Nations Cup and several friendly matches. ,
280 international matches were played during this period and their impact was enormous, as 177 out of 211 teams advanced in the world rankings, notably Kazakhstan (11 places), Cuba (10 places), Greece and Malaysia (7 each). .
The new classification will be released on August 25.
Ranking of top ten teams:
1 – Belgium
2 – Brazil
3 – Argentina (+1)
4 – France (-1)
5 – England
6 – Spain (+1)
7 – Italy (-1)
8 – Netherlands (+1)
9 – Portugal (-1)
10 – Denmark (+1)