In FIFA's February FIFA Men's National Football Team Rankings, Brazil held the top spot.
ST World Champions Argentina rose 64.5 points to catch up with Brazil, just two points away from the top team.
France, Belgium, England, the Netherlands, Croatia, Italy, Portugal and Spain are ranked three to ten.
Trend 1: The advantage of European teams has shrunk, and almost all continents have been selected.
If you divide the grades according to the world ranking published by FIFA. Classify the top 20 teams in the world as first-class teams. The advantage of European teams has almost shrunk significantly, with only 11 national teams selected as "first-class teams" in the world rankings. Because in the traditional perception, UEFA is almost the only one. It seems that the results of the past few World Cups confirm the widening advantage of European teams. Italy won the title in 2006, Spain reached the top in 2010, Germany returned in 2014 and France won in 2018, and three of these four titles came in the UEFA Civil War final, only Argentina broke the balance in 2014.
But in reality, European teams have won only two more world championships than South American teams in 12 times. Brazil almost topped the FIFA world rankings in the first decade of the 21st century. But CONMEBOL has only 10 teams, while UEFA has 55 members.
In addition, the competition for the third deal is also fierce. The North American national team is represented by Mexico and the United States, while the African team changes rapidly, Tunisia, Morocco and Cameroon are the leaders, and Asia is symbolized by Japan and South Korea. But historically, North American teams have been more consistent. In the world rankings in February, the United States and Mexico ranked 13th and 15th, respectively. However, Morocco, the new World Cup champion, leads the non-Euronan team rankings. In Asia, there are also Japanese teams that stand up for the façade.
Trend 2: The national football team is becoming more stable
In the latest ranking, the Chinese team ranks 80th. In previous years, the national team's results seem to have been stable at 75-83. In the most recent year, it hovered around 77-80. It can be expected that under the premise that there will be fewer and fewer FIFA A-level competitions, the points of the national football team will become more and more stable.
In the Asian ranking, which is related to the qualification situation for the next World Cup qualifiers, the national football team ranks 10th in Asia. Japan, Iran, South Korea, Australia, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Iraq, United Arab Emirates, Oman and Uzbekistan are ahead of us. If the US-Canada-Mexico World Cup expands and the qualifying quota in Asia becomes 8.5, then the national football team must kill at least the first 1.5 opponents, not to mention that there are teams such as Vietnam, Thailand, Kuwait, and Bahrain behind them.
epilogue
Perhaps the national football team has many problems and has scolded them. But I still hope that the results of the national team are getting better and better, and I look forward to bottoming out.
I am Yu Banxian'er, and I am back. Thanks for reading.