Nigeria’s senior national team has dropped three places to
36th in the latest Fifa world ranking released on Thursday despite not losing
any of their two games in the month under review.
The African champions were adjudged the 33rd best football
playing team in the world according to the ranking released earlier in October.
Meanwhile Cote d’Ivoire remain at the summit of African
football with 918 points which put them in the 17th position in the world while
Ghana retained their 24th spot in the world and second in Africa.
Algeria took the third spot on the continent after amassing
800 points which places them in the 26th spot in the world.
However, the Ethiopian national team that lost to the Super
Eagles on both legs of the Fifa World Cup qualifying play-offs moved two places
up the ladder.
South Africa could not gain from their 1-0 friendly win over
Spain last week after Fifa ruled the match out of its ranking profile following
the world champions' use of a seventh substitution in the game. Bafana remain
in 61st spot.
Spain, Germany and Argentina hold the first, second and
third spots in the world respectively as Fifa Confederations Cup champions
Brazil moved to the tenth position in the world.
The next ranking will be released on December 19, 2013.
Fifa is biased how can we qualify for world cup and play a draw with highly rated Italy and yet we draw instead of progress. Am not happy about this.
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