Africa Champions Nigeria were surprisingly
three steps down on the monthly FIFA
Rankings released Thursday by the world
football governing body as they dropped from
28th to 31st spot. The Eagles played out a 2-2 draw against
CONCAF Champions Mexico in a high profile
friendly in the United States and also defaeted
the Harambee Stars of Kenya barely 24 hours
before the latest rankings by FIFA was
realeased. Despite the drop in the world rankings, the
Eagles maintained thier status as the fourth
highest ranked team in Africa behind Ivory
Coast, Ghana and Mali. Algeria, Tunisia Zambia as well as Burkina Faso,
Central Africa Republic and South Africa
completes the list of Africa’s top ten teams World champions Spain remained top of the
global list, while Ivory Coast, 13th in the world,
retained No 1 spot in the African rankings. It is expected that the upcoming FIFA
Confederations Cup and the latest round of
qualifiers for the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil
will ensure plenty of movement in the next
edition of the FIFA Ranking. For the latest edition of the rankings, FIFA said
the results of 30 friendlies up to 2 June were
taken into account, while it said the results of
the FIFA World Cup qualification matches on 4
June is to be included in the next edition.

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