Soccer: Armenia climbs to record high on FIFA rankings

Soccer: Armenia climbs to record high on FIFA rankings –

International soccer’s governing body, FIFA, has ranked Armenia 30th in its latest list of 200 or so nations released on Thursday. 

The standing, which is an improvement by eight positions since the previous listing, is the highest achieved by the nation since it joined international soccer in the mid-1990s.

Armenia has 771 points and its immediate neighbors in the rating are Serbia (29th, 775 points) and the Czech Republic (31st, 760 points).

The list is topped by Spain (1505 points), followed by Germany and Argentina.