Georgian national football team advanced with one place at the FIFA/Coca Cola ranking which was published in January. The team is in the 72nd place now. Last year, the team of Temur Ketsbaia has not lost one match from 8. Georgian team will hold the first match of 2011 against Armenian team on February 9 in Cyprus.
The situation is the same in top three of FIFA rannking - Spain is leading the list, Holland is in the second place and Germany is in the 3rd place.
Here is the list of world's 20 best teams:

1 (1). Spain - 1887
2 (2). Holland - 1723
3 (3). Germany - 1485
4 (4). Brazil - 1446
5 (5). Argentina - 1338
6 (6). England - 1195
7 (7). Uruguay - 1152
8 (8). Portugal - 1090
9 (10). Croatia - 1075
10 (9). Egypt - 1036
11 (11). Greece - 1016
12 (12). Norway - 995
13 (13). Russia - 982
14 (14). Italy – 965
15 (15). Chile -950
16 (16). Ghana – 924
17 (17). Slovenia – 897
18 (18). USA – 867
18 (18). France – 867
20 (20). Slovakia – 854
50 (50). Israel – 551
72 (73). Georgia – 449
76 (78). Latvia – 440
163 (164). Malta – 76

Croatia, Greece, Israel, Latvia and Malta are opponents of Georgian national team in Group F of the qualifying stage of European Championship 2012.



Lasha Tabagari