Argenti top rankings before Copa America

PARIS, June 2: Argenti remain top of FIFA’s rankings ahead of Belgium and Colombia with continental championships in Europe and Latin America about to begin. The Centery Copa America gets underway on Friday in the United States with holders Chile ranked fifth, Brazil seventh and Uruguay ninth. Argenti are also hot favourites with the bookmakers after sending goalscoring trident Lionel Messi , Sergio Aguero and Gonzalo Higuain to the event. And with Euro 2016 staring June 10 in France Germany are ranked fourth, title holders Spain sixth, Cristiano Roldo’s Portugal eighth and dark horses Austria are tenth having pushed England out of the top ten. France are a distant 17th, while British bookmakers however quote the Euro hosts as hot favourites to become champions for a third time after 1984 and 2000.

FIFA rankings June 2:

1. Argenti

2. Belgium

3. Colombia (+1)

4. Germany (+1)

5. Chile (-2)

6. Spain

7. Brazil

8. Portugal

9. Uruguay

10. Austria (+1) . IANS