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Soccer-Spain stay clear at top of world rankings Wed Feb 11, 2009 3:26pm IST ZURICH, Feb 11 (Reuters) – European champions Spain remained top of FIFA’s world rankings for an eighth month with a shortage of international action resulting in no changes to the top ten. Despite not playing a match in the past month, Spain slightly extended their points lead over second placed Germany in the standings which are based on teams’ performances over the past four years. FIFA RANKINGS (previous positions in brackets): 1. (1) Spain 2. (2) Germany 3. (3) Netherlands 4. (4) Italy 5. (5) Brazil 6. (6) Argentina 7. (7) Croatia 8. (8) England 9. (9) Russia 10. (10) Turkey 11. (11=) France 12. (11=) Portugal =. (11=) Czech Republic 14. (16) Ukraine 15. (18) Paraguay 16. (14) Cameroon 17. (21) Romania 18. (19) Israel 19. (20) Greece 20. (22) USA (Edited by Patrick Johnston) Sources: http://in.reuters.