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| Nigeria Move Up In Fifa And Caf Ranking by ifeanyija(m): 6:45pm On Nov 21, 2009 |
Nigeria shoot up in Fifa rankings More good news has come for Nigerian football in the wake of last weekend's qualification for the 2010 Fifa World Cup, with the country gaining 85 points to sprint 10 places up in the latest Fifa World Rankings released on Friday. Nigeria move up to 22 places in the world ranking, a position which takes them to third position in Africa. Cameroon remain Africa's top team, gaining three places to go just one place short of being in the Top Ten. They are followed by Ivory Coast, who also moved up one place to 16 in the world. Mozambique, whose 1-0 victory over Tunisia aided Nigeria's World Cup hopes, amassed a massive 80 points and jumped 12 places to 72 in the world and 14th in Africa. Ghana only gained 1 place and are 6th in Africa. Egypt saw salt added to their World Cup injury as they lost one place, moving down to 5th in Africa and 29th overall. Their place was taken by Algeria. At the top, Spain have overtaken Brazil to become the world's top-ranked team. Holland, Italy and Portugal complete the world's top 5. Africa's Top 20: (World ranking followed by Africa ranking) 11 - 1 Cameroon 16 - 2 Côte d'Ivoire 22 - 3 Nigeria 28 - 4 Algeria 29 - 5 Egypt 37 - 6 Ghana 47 - 7 Mali 48 - 8 Gabon 49 - 9 Burkina Faso 53 - 10 Tunisia 59 - 11 Benin 67 - 12 Morocco 70 - 13 Togo 72 - 14 Mozambique 75 - 15 Guinea 78 - 16 Uganda 86 - 17 South Africa 89 - 18 Senegal 90 - 19 Zambia 94 - 20 Angola http://www.kickoff.com/static/news/article.php?id=12368
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| Re: Nigeria Move Up In Fifa And Caf Ranking by deb(m): 8:15pm On Nov 21, 2009 |
Good for the Eagles. Now they should prove FIFA right by winning the Nation's Cup and try get to World Cup Semi-Final at least |
| Re: Nigeria Move Up In Fifa And Caf Ranking by azeeza(f): 10:32pm On Nov 21, 2009 |
@deb Good for the Eagles. Now they should prove FIFA right by winning the Nation's Cup and try get to World Cup Semi-Final at least. u think say na beans  |
| Re: Nigeria Move Up In Fifa And Caf Ranking by ifeanyija(m): 9:43am On Nov 23, 2009 |
I believe they can win the nations cup, and also do well at the world cup. But they should sack Amodu before we can achieve that. |
| Re: Nigeria Move Up In Fifa And Caf Ranking by GTay(m): 10:17am On Nov 23, 2009 |
^^^ Only a Miracle will see us win the Nations Cup. At the moment Africa has way better teams in Ghana and Cote-DIvoire |
| Re: Nigeria Move Up In Fifa And Caf Ranking by andyty(m): 12:33pm On Nov 23, 2009 |
Dividend of qualifying for the world cup. |
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