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Brazil below Greece, Croatia and England in FIFA rankings

September 05, 2012 15:41 IST
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Brazil stayed outside the top ten of FIFA's highly questioned ranking system on Wednesday, with England, Denmark and Greece all ahead of the five-times world champions.

The South Americans, who hit an all-time low of 13th last month, climbed one place to 12th thanks to a 3-0 friendly win in Sweden.

But their placing, one below Greece, is still surprisingly low as they have won 10 of their 13 full internationals played in the last year, with their only defeats against Argentina and Mexico during a tour of the United States in June.

In May, they outclassed tenth-placed Denmark 3-1 in a friendly.

England remained third, a position which many critics feel is too high given their lacklustre results over the last two years.

They are three places above Italy, who beat them on penalties at Euro 2012 in the quarter-final and went on to reach the final.

World and European champion Spain stayed top, ahead of Germany who were outclassed as they lost 3-1 to seventh-placed Argentina in a friendly last month.

Uruguay, fifth, are South America's highest-placed team.

Mali (32nd) and Libya (36th) both recorded their highest-ever rankings.

While India slipped one place lower to 169.

1. (1) Spain
2. (2) Germany
3. (3) England
4. (5) Portugal
5. (4) Uruguay
6. (6) Italy
7. (7) Argentina
8. (8) Netherlands
9. (9) Croatia
10. (10) Denmark
169 (168) India
Last month's rankings in brackets

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