0 FIFA world football ranking: England move to 5th, Colombia back to top 50.

The FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking for October edition has been released today. The edition had 136 matches played including Brazil 2014 world cup qualifiers and international friendly games.The world cup and European champions Spain and Germany still leads in FIFA ranking as world cup finalist Netherlands keeps dropping.

England climb to 5th after two Brazil world cup qualifiers.

England 5-0 win over Moldova and 1-1 draw against Ukraine saw them climb to 5th. There is nothing for Roy Hodgson to celebrate as the move is more due to bad performance of other top five teams including 2011 Copa America champions Uruguay which drawn 2 and beaten 4-0 by Colombia.

Atletico Madrid's hitman Falcao and coach Jose Pekerman impact.

Colombia under Colombia managed to climb back to FIFA ranking top 10 after earning highest points than all the teams (259), first appearance since 2002. The team is under Jose Pekerman coach and their squad has Atletico Madrid hitman Radamel Falcao whose performance has been incredible both at club and national team. So far has scored 3 in World cup qualifiers including in 3-1 win over Chile and 4-0 against Uruguay. 

2014 World cup host worst ranking could affect 2014 performance.

Brazil, the world cup 2014 host had three consecutive wins in international friendly games. As friendly game has less weights/points, hosts have dropped even more to reach record lowest level, 14th. Of the three wins, only 2-1 win against Argentina was convincing but a narrow win against South Africa and 8-0 win over China would not count that much. Not participating in really competition before 2014 could have a negative impact on Brazil performance in the world cup or Mano Menezes need to pick strong teams for friendly games. 

Superb FIFA cocacola raking progress by Central African Republic

The continuous surprise package in the FIFA ranking is Central African Republic. They rise to 49th and in top 50 for the first time, this time up by 15 places. The African Country has been on successive up move for 7th month in a row. One would like to dig and know what is the secret behind. 

FIFA COCACOLA world football ranking October 3rd 2012

Rank	National team	Points	+/- Pos
1	Spain	1611	0
2	Germany	1459	0
3	Portugal	1259	1
4	Argentina	1208	3
5	England	1196	-2
6	Netherlands	1141	2
7	Uruguay	1140	-2
8	Italy	1106	-2
9	Colombia	1102	13
10	Greece	1029	1

0 Euro 2012 finals:Fernando Torres brace sent Republic of Ireland out of Euro 2012

Chelsea striker, Fernando Torres earn his first start in Euro 2012 final and score a brace in 4-0 Spain victory against Republic of Ireland to sent out of the competition. Torres has moved close to the Euro 2012 leading top scorers, Mario Gomez and Alan Dzagoev both on 3 goals. Another two Spain goals were scored by current Premier League player, the Manchester City midfielder Davis Silva and former Arsenal midfielder currently playing for Barcelona in La liga. During the match, Spain playing like Barcelona, break the most pass record setting a new 859 pass record. 

Vicente Del Bosque made a right decision to start Torres and the striker repays his judgment in just four minutes to mark his presence in Poland-Ukraine finals. Giovanni Trapattoni Euro 2012 farewell game will be against his home country Italy which is still in the Euro2012 tournament and will be trying hard to win the match in order to qualifier. Italy has only managed two 1-1 draws with Spain and Croatia and a only third in a group with 2 points less than other opponents . 

Spain vs Republic of Ireland goals summary 

Fernando Torres - Spain (4') 1-0

David Silva - Spain(49') 2-0

Fernando Torres - Spain (70')  3-0

Cesc Fábregas - Spain(83')4-0

Spain vs Republic of Ireland video highlight of all goals

0 FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking: Spain at the top, Euro 2012 Group B all in top ten

FIFA have released the world national ranking ahead of EURO 2012. There is move movements in top ten compared to last FIFA ranking which witnessed on Argentina and Denmark exchange positions. 

The latest football ranking saw Spain, the World cup and European champions retaining top spot as Germany slipping to third as Uruguay move second, Holland 3rd while Brazil and England moved to 5^th and 6^th and Argentina moved to places to 7^th. Portugal has dropped 5 places, from 5^th to 10^th and make fans to question if Cristiano Ronaldo was right to predict Spain or Portugal as winner for Euro 2012. 

Poland, the Euro 2012 host moved three place but remain the lowest ranked team in Euro 2012 62^nd as co host Ukraine occupy 52^nd spot.

Euro 2012 groups and FIFA ranking of Europe teams

Group A

Russia 13^th

Greece 15^th

Czech Republic 27^th

Poland  62^nd

Group B

Germany 3rd

Netherlands 4th

Denmark 9th

Portugal 10^th

Group C

Spain 1st

Croatia 8^th

Italy 12^th

Republic of Ireland 18^th

Group D

England 6th
France 14^th

Sweden 17^th

Ukraine 52^nd

South America in FIFA ranking

Uruguay second placed, their highest ever rank in FIFA ranking. Other South America nationals in top 10 are Brazil 5^th and Argentina 7^th.

Top 10 in Fifa world rankings

1. Spain
2. Uruguay
3. Germany
4. Netherlands
5. Brazil
6. England
7. Argentina
8. Croatia
9. Denmark
10. Portugal 

Top 10 FIFA ranking for Africa CAF teams

1. Côte d'Ivoire  
2. Ghana      
3. Algeria        
4. Libya     
5. Mali      
6. Zambia         
7. Tunisia   
8. Egypt     
9. Gabon     
10. Sierra Leone