Argentina will not become the number one team in the FIFA
rankings this month, despite winning the 2022 World Cup.
Instead, the world football governing body will rate Brazil
ahead of their South American rivals.
Brazil have held the top position since February, when they
overtook Belgium.
And even though they failed to make it past the
quarter-finals in Qatar, Argentina’s results haven’t been enough to overtake
them.
Brazil won three matches at the tournament, lost to Cameroon
and were eliminated following a penalty shootout defeat at the hands of
Croatia.
Apart from winning the World Cup, Argentina also lifted the
Copa America in 2021.
Shootout successes are worth far fewer ranking points than
regulation-time wins. If either Argentina or France had won the final within
120 minutes, they would have gone to No. 1, but a penalty shootout guaranteed
that Brazil could not be overtaken.
Argentina and France will be second and third, respectively,
while Belgium will slide down two places to fourth after failing to make it
beyond the group stage. England stay in fifth, while the Netherlands are up two
places into sixth.
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