Egypt one of the Top 10 Teams in World

According to FIFA web site :



Egypt one of the Top 10 (BEST)Teams in World

The Africa Cup of Nations has had a major impact on the first FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking of the year. While Spain continue to occupy top spot ahead of Brazil and the Netherlands, Egypt managed to climb 14 places to tenth place after they successfully defended their title at the CAF Africa Cup of Nations in Angola.

This is not only Egypt’s highest-ever position in the ranking, but also the second-highest of any African team since the introduction of the ranking. They have only been bettered by Nigeria, who reached fifth place in April 1994. Other African teams also benefited from their performances in Angola. In the upper echelons of the ranking, semi-finalists Nigeria (15th, up 7) and finalists Ghana (27th, up 7) made considerable strides. Further down the ranking, Zambia (73rd, up 11) and Malawi (82nd, up 17) also made good progress.

Ahead of the FIFA World Cup™ in South Africa, an analysis of the strengths of each of the eight groups will doubtless prove interesting. In general, it is noteworthy that Group G is the only one to have two teams from the top ten (Brazil and Portugal), while Italy are the only representatives from the top 20 in Group F. Bearing in mind that only two teams from each group will go on to the round of 16, the “tightness” of the groups and the gap between the second and third team could prove particularly significant. With this in mind, two groups promise to be particularly exciting: there are very few points separating Mexico and Uruguay in Group A and Chile and Switzerland in Group H.

A total of 82 international “A” matches were taken into account for this edition of the ranking, 15 of which were played in 2009 (total of 849 “A” matches played in 2009). In addition to the 29 matches played in the Africa Cup of Nations, 11 continental qualifying matches and 42 friendlies were played.

Here's the RANK as its shown on FIFA website

Egypt is number 10

Ranking	Team	Pts Feb 10	+/- Ranking Dec 09		+/- Pts Dec 09
1	Spain	1627	0		0
2	Brazil	1568	0		0
3	Netherlands	1288	0		0
4	Italy	1209	0		0
5	Portugal	1176	0		0
6	Germany	1173	0		0
7	France	1117	0		0
8	Argentina	1082	0		-3
9	England	1076	0		0
10	Egypt	1069	14		237
11	Croatia	1053	-1		11
12	Greece	1030	1		14
13	Russia	1026	-1		0
14	USA	963	0		-17
15	Nigeria	956	7		108
16	Chile	955	-1		19
17	Mexico	947	0		16
18	Switzerland	924	0		0
19	Serbia	916	0		0
20	Cameroon	914	-9		-121
21	Uruguay	909	-1		0
22	Côte d'Ivoire	865	-6		-69
23	Australia	857	-2		-6
24	Ukraine	848	-2		0
25	Czech Republic	828	0		0
26	Denmark	827	2		7
27	Ghana	823	7		76
27	Israel	823	-1		0
29	Paraguay	806	0		0
30	Bulgaria	801	0		0
31	Algeria	784	-5		-39
32	Norway	772	0		12
33	Slovenia	767	-2		0
34	Honduras	759	3		21
35	Ecuador	753	2		15
36	Slovakia	752	-3		0
37	Republic of Ireland	746	-2		0
38	Romania	745	-2		0
39	Colombia	736	0		0
40	Japan	729	3		20
40	Northern Ireland	729	0		0
42	Turkey	728	-1		0
43	Sweden	727	-1		6
44	Gabon	706	4		46
45	Costa Rica	699	-1		-2
46	Scotland	665	0		0
47	Venezuela	646	3		0
48	Bosnia-Herzegovina	645	3		3
49	Korea Republic	634	3		9
49	Latvia	634	-4		-43