Saudi Arabia advance in FIFA rankings … and look forward to the new coach

Saudi Arabia advance in FIFA rankings … and look forward to the new coach

Algeria won 28 places at the same time … Tunisia leads Arab teams

The Saudi team still without coach (Photo: Bashir Saleh)

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Saudi Arabia occupies a place in the monthly FIFA rankings on Thursday, ranking 68th in the world, including 7 Asian, one Arab and three in the Gulf, while the Algerian national team, champion of Africa, gained 28 places at a time.
Algeria was crowned Africa Cup of Nations champion on July 19 after defeating Senegal 1-0.
The Algerian team ranked 40th in the world with 1,463 points, ranking fourth on the African continent.
The first Senegalese place in Africa ranks 20th in the world with 1,550 points. While the Tunisian team, which leads Arab teams to second place in Africa with 1496 points. Nigeria came third with 1481 points. The Moroccan team came fifth with 1461 points. The Egyptian team ranked sixth with 1431 points.
Madagascar, out of the quarter-finals of the African Championship, won 12 places and finished 96th in the world, while Benin climbed six places to finish in 82nd place. Although the Brazilian team won the Copa America for the ninth time in its history on the seventh of this month after beating Peru 3-1, it failed to climb to the top of the standings. the Belgian team and finished second with 1726, to 20 points of the Belgian team.
France, world champion, slipped to third place with 1718 points. England was ranked fourth with 1652 points. Uruguay was fifth with 1637 points.
The Portuguese finished sixth with 1631 points, followed by Croatia with 1625 points, Colombia with 1622 points, Spain with 1617 points and Argentina with 1610 points.
The team ranked third in the world with 1481 points, South Korea ranked 37th in the world with 1467 points, Australia ranked 46th in the world with 1436 points. And Qatar in 62nd place worldwide with 1375 points.
The UAE ranked sixth at the Asian level, ranking 65th. While Saudi Arabia ranked seventh in Asia, in 68th place in the world, then China 71, the 77th in Iraq and Uzbekistan in the 84th.
The center appeared to be of a natural nature because it had not played for an international friendly match for months and had not appointed a technical director to replace the Argentine Petzi, who had ended in January.
The Saudi Football Federation is currently in talks with some of the coaches in secret, while French coach Hervé Ronar would be the new coach of the Saudi team for the next phase, especially after formally resigning to the Moroccan Football Federation earlier this week.
The draw held last week brought Saudi Arabia, Palestine and Yemen together in the qualifiers for the 2022 FIFA World Cup ™ in Qatar and the 2023 Asian Cup in China. .
Saudi Arabia, which was the only representative of Arab Asia at the 2018 World Cup, will play Group D with Palestine and Yemen, as well as Uzbekistan and Singapore.
Qatar, which won the Asian Cup earlier this year, will play in a group with Oman, India, Afghanistan and Bangladesh looking for a qualification for the championship to defend their title with the guarantee of playing in the World Cup.
The United Arab Emirates has attracted Group G with their neighboring teams: Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia.
Syria will play with China and the Philippines, while Jordan and Kuwait will play in the same group as Australia, Iraq and Bahrain will play with Iran and Lebanon will attract Korea South and North Korea.
The round tables will take place from September 5, 2019 to June 9, 2020.
The top eight teams as well as the top four will be in second place in the Asian Cup and the finals of the World Cup qualifiers.
The top 24 teams will play in the qualifying round to complete the rest of the Asian Cup, which will be held for the second time with the participation of 24 teams.
According to the schedule of the AFC program, the second round of the 2022 World Cup qualifiers will start on September 5 and will end on June 9, 2020.
Green will start his official tour on September 10, the second round will take place on October 10, the third will be on the 15th, and the fourth will be on November 14th. The competition will temporarily pause until it restarts. March 26th and 31st in the fifth and sixth rounds of 2020, then the seventh and eighth rounds on June 4th and 9th of next year.

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