Yemen football down to 139th in world ranking [Archives:2005/907/Sports]

SANA'A, Dec. 23 – For the fifth consecutive month, our football national team is going downward on the FIFA World Ranking. Our country's team went five steps back in the FIFA monthly classification for December 2005, ranking 139th. The national football team was the 134th in November and was the 124th in the year before the last. This deterioration is cited after our team lost fifteen points of its record, which contains now 310 points.

Internationally, the Brazilian team is sill topping the list of the FIFA classification for the fourth consecutive year. The Tunisian team continued its supremacy in the Arab World with 685 points, occupying the 28th position worldwide. The Egyptian team displaced the Saudi team from the second position among the Arab national teams.
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