Vietnam maintain top spot in Southeast Asia’s football: FIFA
Vietnam has maintained their position as the Southeast Asian No 1 team in the latest FIFA rankings, the Vietnam Football Federation said on February 20.
Members of the national men's football team at a training session (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnam has maintained their positionas the Southeast Asian No 1 team in the latest FIFA rankings, the VietnamFootball Federation said on February 20.
Vietnam still ranked 94th in the world and 14th in Asia. Theywere followed by Thailand at No.113, and the Philippines at No.124.
Japan, Iran and the Republic of Korea continued to be thecontinental top three.
Belgium were the world’s strongest team, followed by Franceand Brazil, respectively.
The FIFA rankings in January recorded few changes as only 15 friendlieswere held worldwide in the one-month period, with two matches taking place inlate 2019.
Next month, Vietnam will play two matches counted towards teams’ FIFA rankings.
They will face Kyrgyzstan(world’s No.96) in a friendlymatch on March 26 and Malaysia (No.154) in the second round of the 2022 WorldCup Asian qualifiers five days later./.
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Members of the national men's football team at a training session (Photo: VNA) 
