How are they planning to monitor him?? by seeing how he does in ISL development league?? or like how Blackburn were promised to be monitoring the pune fc players after they played a friendly?
Zurich, June 4: India has jumped six places to the 141st position in the latest rankings released by world football's governing body FIFA on Thursday. India were previously in the 147th spot. They are at the 22nd position among the Asian countries. Iran (41) is the top-ranked Asian team in the list, followed by Japan (52) and South Korea (58). File photo of Indian football players during a match World Champions Germany continued to head the rankings. Belgium jumped to second place, a place above World Cup runners-up Argentina. It is Belgium's highest position since the launch of the world rankings. Five-time world champions Brazil are fifth, a spot below Colombia. Brazil are followed by the Netherlands, Portugal (seventh), Uruguay (eighth), and France (ninth). Spain , the 2010 World Cup champions, round off the top ten in the rankings. IANS
The new FIFA World Rankings saw Belgium leapfrog Argentina into second place while Germany retained their top spot. This is Belgium’s highest ever ranking since the system was launched and they are now on 1509 points – but a long way behind Germany’s 1775 points. France also made it into the top 10 with Switzerland dropping to 11th spot. The rest of the top 20 teams did not play matches in May. World Cup finalists Argentina are third (1496 points) with Colombia fourth (1435 points). Brazil made it three South American countries in the top five (1392 points). Netherlands, Portugal, Uruguay, France and Spain round off the top 10 countries in world football. Other European giants like Italy, England and Croatia are 13th, 15th and 18th respectively. Madagascar saw the biggest jump in the rankings as they moved up 37 spots to 113. In all, May saw 44 international matches being played with a majority of them being held in Africa. Other countries which reached their highest position ever in the rankings were Democratic Republic of the Congo (#47), Timor- Leste (#146) and Bhutan (#159). India moved up six spots to 141. They are now on 161 points, a few decimal points behind Central African Republic.
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the 141st position in the latest rankings
released by world football's governing body
FIFA on Thursday.
India were previously in the 147th spot. They
are at the 22nd position among the Asian
countries. Iran (41) is the top-ranked Asian
team in the list, followed by Japan (52) and
South Korea (58).
File photo of Indian football players during a
match
World Champions Germany continued to
head the rankings. Belgium jumped to second
place, a place above World Cup runners-up
Argentina.
It is Belgium's highest position since the
launch of the world rankings.
Five-time world champions Brazil are fifth, a
spot below Colombia. Brazil are followed by
the Netherlands, Portugal (seventh), Uruguay
(eighth), and France (ninth).
Spain , the 2010 World Cup champions, round
off the top ten in the rankings.
IANS
The new FIFA World Rankings saw Belgium leapfrog
Argentina into second place while Germany retained
their top spot. This is Belgium’s highest ever ranking
since the system was launched and they are now on
1509 points – but a long way behind Germany’s 1775
points. France also made it into the top 10 with
Switzerland dropping to 11th spot. The rest of the top
20 teams did not play matches in May.
World Cup finalists Argentina are third (1496 points)
with Colombia fourth (1435 points). Brazil made it
three South American countries in the top five (1392
points). Netherlands, Portugal, Uruguay, France and
Spain round off the top 10 countries in world football.
Other European giants like Italy, England and Croatia
are 13th, 15th and 18th respectively.
Madagascar saw the biggest jump in the rankings as
they moved up 37 spots to 113. In all, May saw 44
international matches being played with a majority of
them being held in Africa. Other countries which
reached their highest position ever in the rankings
were Democratic Republic of the Congo (#47), Timor-
Leste (#146) and Bhutan (#159).
India moved up six spots to 141. They are now on 161
points, a few decimal points behind Central African
Republic.