The FIFA ranking serves as a ranking parameter for the teams. Taking into account the results in the official matches they play, for those who are at the top, the different tournaments and titles mean progress to continue climbing, at the same time that neither wants to be in the last positions or lose positions.
This Thursday, after the international dates that there were this month, the highest body of world football published an update of the list with the points obtained by each selected, including those who added or subtracted the South American teams in the triple playoff date, in which Uruguay did not perform well.
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The Uruguayans fell some places in the FIFA rankings.
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The Uruguayan team drew goalless against Colombia in their country and then suffered a couple of resounding falls: 0-3 against Argentina at the Monumental and 1-4 against Brazil in Manaus. The poor results were reflected in the data updated by FIFA and those led by Óscar Tabárez fell several places within the list.
Due to the bad moment of the team, the continuity of Tabárez was questioned.
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Before recent matches, with the aim of adding and getting a ticket to the Qatar World Cup 2022, the Uruguayans were in the 12th position in the ranking with 1,645.42 points and were close to the Top 10. However, in the last Playoff games they did not get victories and moved to 15th place, now having 1,625.47 units.
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Paraguay, another one that does not have a good present and lost positions in the ranking.
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Uruguay was surpassed by Germany, the United States and Switzerland, who climbed positions thanks to their good performances. With Paraguay, which also did not obtain triumphs on the triple date – it tied with Argentina and fell with Chile and Bolivia-, The Charrúa are the South Americans who lost the most points in the classification made by FIFA.
THE FALL OF URUGUAY IN THE FIFA RANKING
This is how the FIFA ranking remained after the October qualifying dates. Photo / capture: FIFA.
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