The pressure on her only increased.
Brazil will arrive at the World Cup as the number one ranked team in the world after widening the gap with Belgium, which is in second place in the latest FIFA rankings published today (Thursday). Brazil, the only team to have competed in all World Cup tournaments, will hope to show their form in order to win the trophy Golden for the sixth time in history.
Brazil won both of their warm-up games in September - against Ghana and Tunisia - while Belgium lost to the Netherlands in one of their two Nations League games.
Argentina remain in third place with 2018 World Cup champions France occupying fourth place.
Those who complete the top ten are England (5), Italy (6), Spain (7), the Netherlands (8), Portugal (9) and Denmark (10).
Mbappe and Griezmann.
Only in 4th place, photo: Getty Images
Qatar is ranked 50th and Ghana will be the lowest ranked team among all World Cup participants.
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