How Russia became lowest ranked team at the 2018 World Cup

The eyes of the world will fall on Russia this summer but hopes for the hosts' national team are not high, with the side currently ranked 70th in the world, three places above Saudi Arabia. Russia has only managed to make it out of the group stages at one international tournament since the break up of the Soviet Union. We take a look at the history of Russian and Soviet football to see how we got to where they are today View the video at https://www.theguardian.com/football/video/2018/jun/13/how-russia-became-lowest-ranked-team-at-the-2018-world-cup-video