{"id":9667,"date":"2017-11-23T22:56:06","date_gmt":"2017-11-23T22:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disnaija.com\/?p=9667"},"modified":"2020-04-21T18:32:02","modified_gmt":"2020-04-21T18:32:02","slug":"nigeria-falls-to-50th-in-latest-fifa-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/nigeria-falls-to-50th-in-latest-fifa-rankings\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria Falls To 50th In Latest FIFA Rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Augustine Akhilomen<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Despite defeating Argentina 4-2 in an international friendly match at the Krasnodar Stadium, the Super Eagles performance doesn&#8217;t seem to have caught the eye of FIFA as the team are placed 50th in the latest rankings.<\/p>\n<p>According to the ranking, the top 5 teams in Africa are; Senegal, Tunisia, Egypt, Congo DR,<br \/>\nMorrocco, which makes Nigeria the only qualified team not in the top 5 of Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The next FIFA\/Coca-Cola World Ranking will be published on 21 December 2017.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\">TOP 10 teams in Africa<\/h3>\n<ol style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li>Senegal<\/li>\n<li>Tunisia<\/li>\n<li>Egypt<\/li>\n<li>Congo DR<\/li>\n<li>Morrocco<\/li>\n<li>Burkina Faso<\/li>\n<li>Cameroon<\/li>\n<li>Nigeria<\/li>\n<li>Ghana<\/li>\n<li>C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\">TOP 10 teams in the world<\/h3>\n<ol style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li>Germany<\/li>\n<li>Brazil<\/li>\n<li>Portugal<\/li>\n<li>Argentina<\/li>\n<li>Belgium<\/li>\n<li>Spain<\/li>\n<li>Poland<\/li>\n<li>Switzerland<\/li>\n<li>France<\/li>\n<li>Chile<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sourced From: <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.soccernet.com.ng\/2017\/11\/nigeria-falls-to-50th-in-latest-fifa.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">SoccerNet NG: Football News and Articles<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Augustine Akhilomen Despite defeating Argentina 4-2 in an international friendly match at the Krasnodar Stadium, the Super Eagles performance doesn&#8217;t seem to have caught the eye of FIFA as the team are placed 50th in the latest rankings. According to the ranking, the top 5 teams in Africa are; Senegal, Tunisia, Egypt, Congo DR, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9508,11464],"tags":[445,11481,72,11482],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9667"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}