Peru break into Fifa’s world top 10

If the All Whites want to qualify for the Fifa World Cup finals in Russia 2018, they’ll have to get past a team 112 places higher than them in the football world rankings.

Peru have jumped two rungs on the ladder to 10th place for their first berth in the world’s top 10 after they finished fifth in South American qualifying for the World Cup.

The South American nation next memories and the youth don’t even have that. They don’t know what it’s like to be at a World Cup final.

This World Cup started the same way. Peru picked up just four points from their first six matches. In their second game, Christian Cueva, an artful midifelder, was sent off for throwing the ball in an opponent’s face. It was all going wrong again.

Luis Miguel Echegeray, a Fifa world rankings: 1. Germany (no change) 2. Brazil (NC) 3. Portugal (NC) 4. Argentina (NC) 5. Belgium (NC) 6. Poland (NC) 7. France (up one) 8. Spain (up three) 9. Chile (NC) 10. Peru (up two). 122. New Zealand (down nine). lifelong supporter, wrote a beautiful column in The Guardian. He said: ’’For Peruvians, the only assurance that we have in life is that we make the best ceviche in the world and that we won’t qualify for the World Cup. We are not even Cinderella – at least she made it to the ball.’’

His mate Mariano Bustamente said: ’’As a Peruvian, rooting for the national team is like having a toxic ex-girlfriend. You know that play the Oceania champion All Whites in the intercontinental playoff home-and-away tie for a place at Russia 2018. The first match is in Wellington on November 11 before the teams clash in the Peruvian capital Lima five days later.

In contrast to Peru’s rise in the latest Fifa rankings, the New Zealand team found their stocks drop nine places into 122nd. every time you get back together, she’s going to deceive you, she’s going to cheat on you, but like a fool you forgive her, thinking that she will change. But she never changes, she just disappoints you, over and over again. But she’ll return in four years, and again, like a fool you’ll take her back.’’

You think these guys don’t already have it hard, Andy. Half of them won’t even be able to make to over to support their team because