US moves back to 7th best in the world

Has it already been a month since the last rankings came out? With a lack of games being played by most countries, very little movement happened. Here is the top 20:

Pos - Team - Pts - (Dec Rank)
1 Brazil 839 (1)
2 Czech Republic 796 (2)
3 Netherlands 790 (3)
4 Argentina 772 (4)
5 Spain 768 (5)
5 France 768 (5)
7 Mexico 767 (5)
7 USA 767 (8)
9 England 757 (9)
10 Portugal 753 (10)

11 Turkey 748 (11)
12 Italy 741 (12)
13 Denmark 733 (13)
14 Sweden 731 (14)
15 Japan 714 (15)
16 Greece 708 (16)
17 Germany 707 (16)
18 Uruguay 705 (17)
19 Iran 703 (19)
20 Croatia 701 (20)

The order stayed pretty much the same with no one in the top 20 dropping more then 1 point. One interesting thing, the US is tied with Mexico for 7th spot. This is the first time since June 2003 that the US has not trailed Mexico in the rankings (June 2003: US 9th, Mexico 11th). Also, 3 members of World Cup Group E are in the top 12. No other group as many highly ranked teams, although, Groups D & F each have 3 in the top 20.

There was very little movement all over the table, but a few do stand out. The biggest winners this month are Qatar (up 6 places to 89th), India (up 9 to 118) and Bangladesh who catapulted 17 spots to 143rd. By the way, Bangladesh gained 72 points in the last month.

As far as big drops, well, there were none. No team fell more then 2 spots.