FIFA World Ranking Top 20: October-November 2010

Rank (previous)	Team	Points	Comment
1 (1)	Spain	1881	Wins over Scotland and Lithuania. (EURO ‘12 Quals.)
2 (2)	Netherlands	1683	Wins over Sweden and Moldova. (EURO ‘12 Quals.)
3 (4)	Brazil	1493	Wins over Ukraine and Iran. (Friendlies.)
4 (3)	Germany	1481	Delivered misery to Kazakhstan and Turkey. (EURO ‘12)
5 (5)	Argentina	1320
6 (6)	England	1205	Draw against Montenegro at home!! (EURO ‘12 Quals.)
7 (7)	Uruguay	1167	Beat up on China and Indonesia. (Friendlies.)
8 (8)	Portugal	1123	Woke up against Iceland and Denmark. (EURO ‘12)
9 (11)	Croatia	1086	Win over Israel away. (EURO ‘12)
10 (25)	Russia	1061	Wins over Ireland and FYROM. (EURO ‘12)
11 (9)	Egypt	1034	Win over Nigeria. (Continental Qual.)
12 (12)	Greece	1026	Two home wins against Israel and Latvia. (EURO ‘12)
13 (14)	Norway	989	Win over Cyprus. (EURO ‘12)
14 (10)	Chile	931
15 (19)	Slovenia	926	Moved up after beating the powerhouses of Estonia and Faroe Islands. (EURO ‘12)
16 (13)	Italy	901	A scoreless tie in N. Ireland. (EURO ‘12)
17 (17)	Ghana	891
18 (27)	France	888	Wins over Luxemburg and Romania. Overrated as usual.
19 (23)	Cote d’Ivoire	871	Win over Burundi. They get points for that!
20 (16)	Slovakia	926	Tie with Ireland and win over Armenia. (EURO ‘12)

Two good wins against Latvia and Israel for Greece, both at home. Currently Greece is at the top of group F with 8 points. Croatia is second with 7 points and one game less played. Greece have had the pretty much the same ranking since last April.

Italy was also awarded a 3-0 victory on paper for the abandoned UEFA EURO 2012 qualifier against Serbia held in Genoa in October. The game was delayed for 30 minutes due to trouble with Serbs and then it was abandoned 6 minutes after kick-off. It seems that whole thing had to do with the signing of the Serb goalkeeper with another team.

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