Nigeria are 8th in the world, the Highest ever (I guess)

Point of correction sir! We had once been named 5th by FIFA abi na thyphoid!

8th? wat did we do to be 8th in the world?
no world cup, no friendlies. . .

Lol

or obj went to see blatter during onr of his tours around the world ??

_{kitaun, why u not asleep}

Wetin kwonsain u? Am on my boy! Forget FIFA make typhoid no catch u o!

why are we #8, i dont get it

same question i asked.
and i'll love to know whose 9th,

I guess we are 8th cos of the transfer values of Martins, Mikel, Yakubu and co and also for the cummulative goal scoring adventures of Yak, Martins, Kanu, Osaze, Ikechukwu Uche, Ijeh, Ogbuke and so on, abi now

@ Kit,

I never knew Fluker Eagles ever climbed up 5th in the world, Kai!

@ JK,

1 Brazil
2 Italy
3 Argentina
4 France
5 Germany
6 England
7 The Netherlands
8 Nigeria
9 Portugal
10 Czech Republic

11 Cameroon
12 Spain
13 Ukraine
14 Sweden
15 Croatia
16 Greece
17 Switzerland
18 Côte d'Ivoire
19 Egypt
20 Romania


How the rankings are calculated

Match Result: - Win-Draw-Defeat = 3 points - 1 points – 0 points
Importance of match - 1 (friendly match) to 4 (FIFA World Cup™)
Strength of opponent - Position in world ranking (no. 1 = 2.00, no. 30 = 1.70, no. 118 = 0.82 etc.) Formula: [200 minus Position] / 100
Regional strength - Based on results in last three FIFA World Cups (wins per confederation per match)
Period - Since the change to the FIFA World Ranking procedure which came into effect in August 2006 the rankings will no longer take into account the last eight years of results only the last four years of results.
Last four years, gradual decline in importance of results: 100%- 50% - 30% - 20%
Number of matches considered per year - Average points gained from all matches in last 12 months (minimum: 5 matches)

Lets give each other a round of applause ist not easy mehn bone that side naija don try mehn for us to be in the top ten we don try seriously

Chris, forget FIFA jare! BTW do u know we hardly fear more than 5 nations ie Brazil, Germany, Italy, Argentina and Cameroun?

With the exception of Portugal and Spain,how many of those teams below us are actually better than us

Exactly my point! Even at that i doubt if we were to play them both i will bat an eyelid, shey na a Pauleta-led Portuguese team i go fear or a free-flowing under-achieving Spanish side?

omo na there u go fear,
u no fear prtugal? with deco, pauleta, figo and mad man ronaldo??

we have the capacity to beat any team in the world, if we have the character to do it, we are too full of ourselves, thats just the problem,

another thing i've noticed about the nigerian team is that they neva counter attack, when we have the chance we slow the game down sluggishly, which is so annoying, can't they learn from valencia of old or arsenal,

mean nigerian football needs some sort of rejuvenation,

but frankly we should be like 10th but not behind cameroon shaaa,

Make i tell u all, we hardly have probs thrashing European teams but S.American teams be wahala 4 us. Wetin be Portugal? I rate Cameroun and Ghana sef pass them!

with Berti Vogts about to be given the job of coach, hopefully things will change, but I aint holding my breath.