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Nigeria Crashes In The Latest FIFA Ranking. by SirHouloo(m): 9:43am On Aug 06, 2015 |
The Super Eagles dropped to tenth in Africa after crashing to the fifty-seventh position in the world in the latest Fifa ranking Nigeria's senior national team have dropped 14 places to 57th in the latest Fifa world ranking released on Thursday - their poorest drop April 2014 despite defeating Chad 2-0 in the Africa Cup of Nations qualifier in June. The Super Eagles slipped one place to be ranked tenth African side behind Algeria, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Tunisia, Senegal, Cameroon, Congo, Cape Verde Island and Egypt. Meanwhile, Algeria remain at the summit of African football after moving two places to the 19th position in the world while second-placed Cote d'Ivoire climbed three places to 21st and Ghana zoomed nine places up to 25th in the world but remained third in Africa. They are followed by Tunisia (32), Senegal (39), Cameroon (42), Congo (47), Cape Verde Island (52), Egypt (55), Nigeria (57) to complete the African top ten. Nigeria's group opponents in the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying series also saw mixed fortunes as Egypt remained unmoved at 55, while Chad and Tanzania both dropped one and 12 places respectively to finish in 173rd and 139th spots. Argentina leapfrogged over Belgium and Germany to take the top spot in the world ranking for the first time in seven years as new South American champions Chile have moved up eight positions, only just missing out on a top-ten ranking at number 11. |
Re: Nigeria Crashes In The Latest FIFA Ranking. by ELTON123(m): 9:45am On Aug 06, 2015 |
change |
Re: Nigeria Crashes In The Latest FIFA Ranking. by SirHouloo(m): 9:55am On Aug 06, 2015 |
ELTON123:I guess they need a change. |
Re: Nigeria Crashes In The Latest FIFA Ranking. by Icon4s(m): 4:22pm On Aug 06, 2015 |
Is it that pple jst like bad news or they never see any thing good about Nigeria. New FIFA ranking says we have climbed 4 places to 53 u are here saying we have dropped 10places to 57. U will see good news u wont pick it. It is d bad news that u will pick. My friend this ur news was for July ranking nt d current one. |
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