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Soccer-Leading FIFA world rankings

LONDON, Oct 19 - Leading FIFA world soccer
rankings issued on Wednesday (September position in brackets):

1. (1) Brazil 840

2. (2) Netherlands 797

3. (4) Czech Republic 783

4. (3) Argentina 778

5. (6) France 776

6. (5) Mexico 769

7. (7) United States 768

8. (8) Spain 764

9= (11) England 754

9= (9) Portugal 754

11. (12) Turkey 743

12. (13) Italy 736

13. (10) Sweden 733

14. (14) Denmark 730

15. (15) Germany 712

16. (16) Japan 711

17. (25) Uruguay 709

18. (20) Greece 706

19. (24) Croatia 702

20. (19) Costa Rica 700

Note: FIFA's standings are based on a statistical analysis
of countries' results over eight years, weighted according to
how recently the matches were played, the strength of the
opponents and the importance of each match.

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