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Nigeria Sours In Latest Fifa Rankings (view full list of fifa rankings) by englishmart(m): 6:22pm On Jul 17, 2014 |
Nigeria has climbed 10 places to perch at 34th in the latest FIFA rankings released on Thursday. The great leap has occurred as a result of the Super Eagles’ Round of 16 berth at the recently –concluded FIFA World Cup Brazil 2014, and also sees the African champions rising to third place in Africa, behind Algeria and Cote d’Ivoire 365footballnews.com have gathered. Ironically, Cote d’Ivoire’s Elephants failed to reach the knock –out stage at the FIFA World Cup finals, while Algeria, like Nigeria, also crashed out at the Round of 16, after losing to eventual champions Germany in extra time. World champions Germany now occupies the number one position, followed by Brazil 2014 runner –up Argentina, with bronze medalists The Netherlands moving 12 places to perch at third. In Africa, seven –time continental champions Egypt occupy fourth place, followed by Ghana, Tunisia, Guinea, Cameroon, Burkina Faso and Mali in that order. Algeria occupies 24th place in the world, with the Ivorians at 25th. Men's Ranking Rnk Team Pts +/- Pos Jul 14 1 Germany 1724 1 2 Argentina 1606 3 3 Netherlands 1496 12 4 Colombia 1492 4 5 Belgium 1401 6 6 Uruguay 1330 1 7 Brazil 1241 -4 8 Spain 1229 -7 9 Switzerland 1216 -3 10 France 1202 7 11 Portugal 1148 -7 12 Chile 1098 2 13 Greece 1091 -1 14 Italy 1056 -5 15 USA 989 -2 16 Costa Rica 986 12 17 Croatia 955 1 18 Mexico 930 2 19 Bosnia and Herzegovina 917 2 20 England 911 -10 21 Ecuador 901 5 22 Ukraine 898 -6 23 Russia 897 -4 24 Algeria 872 -2 25 Côte d'Ivoire 850 -2 26 Denmark 807 -3 27 Scotland 734 0 28 Romania 733 1 29 Sweden 724 3 30 Venezuela 720 10 31 Serbia 717 -1 32 Turkey 714 3 33 Panama 684 -2 34 Nigeria 664 10 35 Czech Republic 646 -1 36 Egypt 645 0 37 Slovenia 644 -12 38 Hungary 642 9 38 Ghana 642 -1 40 Honduras 637 -7 41 Armenia 635 -3 42 Tunisia 621 6 43 Austria 614 -1 44 Wales 606 -3 45 Japan 604 1 46 Slovakia 588 3 47 Iceland 570 5 48 Paraguay 566 2 49 Iran 563 -6 50 Montenegro 559 1 Source. http://365footballnews.com/football/9ja-news/nigeria-soars-in-fifa-rankings/?utm_source=365footballnews.com/football&utm_medium=facebook 1 Like
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Re: Nigeria Sours In Latest Fifa Rankings (view full list of fifa rankings) by faithugo64(f): 8:05pm On Jul 17, 2014 |
good one |
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