The dwindling fortunes of Nigeria football has being brought to fore once more as the country’s national team, the Super Eagles, dropped 14 places to now occupy 57th position in the latest FIFA rankings released by the World football governing body on Thursday.

The position is the worst for the Eagles team in recent times especially when one looks back that the same Nigerian team had soared as high as the 5th spot in the order of football ranking across the world before now.
Though the Super Eagles recorded a 2-0 win over Chad in the period under review, it did not in any way help the ranking of the three-time African champions who now occupy 10th position on the continent.
Algeria, who are 19th in the world,remain the highest ranked team in Africa while Ivory Coast, Ghana Tunisia , Senegal , Cameroon, Congo, Cape Verde and Egypt are all placed above Nigeria.
Meanwhile, Argentina are the new top team on the FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking. Despite losing to Chile on penalties in the final of the Copa América, the Albiceleste have leapfrogged over Belgium and Germany to take the top spot in the world ranking for the first time in seven years.
Chile, who emerged Champions in the South America tournament, moved up eight positions; only just missing out on a top-ten ranking at number 11.
As explained by FIFA, the volatility of the ranking this month is due in part to the many matches that have been played: with 26 Copa América matches, 99 qualifying matches for the World Cup or continental tournaments, and 88 friendlies, the number of matches taken into account has almost doubled the amount for the year so far (477 matches in total). The world football governing body said that the other reason is that the matches from last year’s World Cup have been devalued.

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This ranking is trash.
WTF is Romania doing amongst the top 10?
See countries wey top Nigeria na people wey no sabi ball like us.
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.Oliseh will return the lost glory soon.
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Lalasticlala push this to Fp.

They deserve that spot. This is the worst super eagles squad we have had in a long time.

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Shey them de pay them ni after ranking....why 9ja de down wen we get person wey de rank am for our country...abi wia is that guy PATORANKING

IamDino:
This ranking is trash.
WTF is Romania doing amongst the top 10?

To read football news, u no sabi...how u go fit sabi play common orange? Oya, read am again below.

As explained by FIFA, the volatility of the ranking this month is due in part to the many matches that have been played: with 26 Copa América matches, 99 qualifying matches for the World Cup or continental tournaments, and 88 friendlies, the number of matches taken into account has almost doubled the amount for the year so far (477 matches in total). The world football governing body said that the other reason is that the matches from last year’s World Cup have been devalued.

Could still remember vividly when Nigeria was ranked 5th in the world, a lot has really gone wrong with Sports in Nigeria not only football... Nigeria was once the king of Africa football but it's all history now due to bad management.

Does anyone think Super Eagles should do well in the FIFA ranking when NFF have not
put there house in order?.

Time to go a mourning!

Meanwhile....here is how we can go back to number 5 (yes in 1994...we were as high as top 10).

1.Invest in youth coaches.

2.Invest in youth players.

3.Friendly matches.

4.Stop trying to win everything. Learn , learn, learn.

5.Fund club football properly.

Here is how Belgium did it...http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/27827569

Excerpt from the above link....the most important part.

First, inspired by research trips to the best training centres in France, the Netherlands and Germany, every youth team in the country was told to play a fluid and flexible 4-3-3 formation favoured by the national team. Sablon made a brochure and went to clubs, schools and all youth coaches and told them how to do it.


"It wasn't easy to go to people and tell them to stop doing what they'd done for years," added Sablon.

It took time, but Sablon got his message through.

Secondly, youth teams were no longer to focus on results. Sablon commissioned a study into youth football that saw 1,500 matches filmed and studied. One of the key findings was that too much emphasis was being placed on winning and not enough on developing players. It was win at all costs and that was costing Belgium.

Sablon even went as far as ensuring under-seven and under-eight teams did not have league tables.

"Results went out of the window," Sablon said. "The objective of the youth teams was no longer to win games, it was to develop players. It was not easy, I was personally attacked in the press and by people in the Belgium federation."

Thirdly, Sablon created a rule that once a player had moved up, for example, from the under-17s to the under-19s, he did not go back. Not even for crucial games.

"I wouldn't allow it," he says. "I will give you one example. Vincent Kompany played perhaps two games for the under-19s, three games for the under-21s and then he went straight into the national team. We never took him back even to play in the biggest games.

"Once they made the step up we felt they should improve at that level, not come back."

And then something strange happened. In 2009, three years after the plan was formed, the results of the country's youth teams began to improve, just at the time the players had learnt not to focus on winning or losing, but simply improving.

We even try. I think say we for dey towards 100. Come to think of it, wetin we don achieve for local leaque sef? NADA!

Exactly...nigerian football is nothing to write home about....

Dem try. was expecting them to be 136th.......but how on earth did wales overtake spain, France & Italy

57th?, i think they suppose to be 157th in the ranking...with the way they play their football.



And NFF isn't helping the matter
it's just a waste of time watching them play

Who is ranking who

[color=#006600][/color] FIFA RANKING my foot, to hell with dere ranking though nigeria suppose be like in 80 but i aint want dat most corrupt inrernational body to rank my team

Oliseh,have you seen the ranking?

Super Eagles would soon hit oil with rate the are going down. Would we also blame Buhari?

Ok o

And Nigerians continue to deceive themselves that they are a football nation

The once Super Eagles, just hope one day someone will come and save Nigerian football. I like Oliseh but dont think the solution to our football lies in the hands of a ex Nigerian player. Just because you played for Niaja before no mean say you fit coach Naija team.

Naija no mind them... even if we win d afcon and world cup together... they won't move us up. Ndi ara.... una 4 kukuma place us to 455

everything in naija is on free fall mode.


naira falling
super eagles ranking falling
standard of education falling
price of crude oil falling
standard of our military falling

the list is endless. the president is clueless and the masses are helpless.

which sin Nigeria commit abeg? why all this bad luck?