Ireland are up four places to 66th in the FIFA world rankings. Germany remain on top with Argentina second while Netherlands are third. England who crashed out of the World cup in the first round are twentieth. Martin O’Neills side are involved in a double header in September when they play Oman in a friendly before travelling to Tblisi for their European championship qualifier with Georgia. In October it’s a double header against Gibraltar and Germany.Scotland are the visitors to Dublin for a qualifier on November 14th.
Luis Suarez will find out when he can return to football this afternoon. The former Liverpool striker, who recently signed for Barcelona, appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport over his four month ban for biting an opponent at the World Cup. At the moment, he can't play or train with his team-mates until the end of October.
