According to my theory, winners should rise in ranking and losers should fall down in ranking. This seems to apply to all teams who participated in Euro Cup except Spain and France. Greece the winner climbed to 14 th position from 35th. Germany who could not win any match fell to 12th. Perhaps France and Spain had accumulated so many points that poor performance in Euro Cup did not cost them too many points. France has won World Cup and Euro Cup in the past. No one grudges them their second position. But the case of spain is similar to some tennis players who stay in top ten without doing anything at the big stage viz. Major tournaments.
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