Belize has fallen six places to 174th in the new FIFA World rankings released today. This means that Jose de la Paz Herrera's men are likely to be the lowest ranked team at January's Central American Cup, although on the Football Federation of Belize (FFB) website, President Dr Bertie Chimilio says that the team will "hopefully" have another friendly in November, a positive result in which would greatly affect the next set of rankings (due for release on November 17th). Belize currently occupies 27th place out of the 35 teams in the CONCACAF region. To put this all into perspective, the country's highest World ranking was 157th in May 2002, the lowest being 201st in November 2007.
The big movers in the CONCACAF region are Panama, whose two 1-0 victories over El Salvador and Peru sees them jump eleven places from 70th to 59th (and to 4th overall in CONCACAF) making them, as hosts, perhaps joint favourites with Honduras to lift the Central American Cup. Panama are, of course, Belize's opening game opponents in the tournament, where they will also face El Salvador (ranked 114th) and Nicaragua (161st)
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