Thursday, January 19, 2012
Eagles crash!:FIFA Ranking
Nigeria has dropped two stages in the world rankings published by FIFA yesterday. Despite being a draw and a win against Botswana and Zambia, respectively, in the last quarter of 2011, the Eagles moved from the position of the 43 th to the 45 position, a position shared with Armenia.
With coach Stephen Keshi is working hard to return to the national team with the victory, which remains to be seen how the Eagles will return to the top of the world ten years, a division they were when he was captain Keshi.
With coach Stephen Keshi is working hard to return to the national team with the victory, which remains to be seen how the Eagles will return to the top of the world ten years, a division they were when he was captain Keshi.
But when the Cote'd Ivoire and Ghana who receive evaluations favovrable on the global list. Although the Ivory Coast lost two places from 16 to 18, is the best team in Africa with Ghana moving three places to 26th position to take the number two position in Africa.
Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana are favourate for the African Cup of Nations, which begins this weekend in Equatorial Guinea and Gabon.
Algeria, Egypt, Senegal are the top five in Africa, with Nigeria in 6 th place berth in the continent.
World and European champion Spain stayed top of FIFA rankings, largely unchanged Wednesday.
Top 10 remains the same after just 11 international matches were played last month.
The Netherlands was second, followed by Germany, the South American champions Uruguay and England. Brazil, Portugal, Croatia, Italy and Argentina completed the elite places.
