Nigeria retains position in latest FIFA Rankings
Nigeria retained the 51st spot globally and ninth in the continent in the
January FIFA ranking released on Thursday.
Last month, Super Eagles were rooted to same spot despite the
team’s sterling performance in the qualifying series which was
capped with another 4-2 win over football power-house Argentina
in an international friendly in Russia.
While Nigeria is rooted to same spot, World Cup-bound
Carthage Eagles of Tunisia now lead continent, displacing
Senegal from the top.
The Senegalese who are also World Cup bound ended 2017 as
Africa’s highest-ranked team. But they have lost that pole
position after dropping one place to 24th in the global rankings
while Tunisia move four places to 23rd.
African champions Cameroon seats 45th in the world and
surprisingly seventh in the continent.
The top five highest ranked African teams include; Tunisia,
Senegal, Egypt, Morocco and Congo DR.
Nigeria’s World Cup Group D rivals Iceland has however moved
into the top 20 of world football after they rose from the number
22nd spot to 20th in the latest rankings.
Meanwhile, the top 10 ranked countries in the world are Germany
– number one, Brazil , Portugal, Argentina and Belgium in fifth
position. In sixth is Spain, Poland is seventh, Switzerland occupy
eighth, France ninth and Chile is 10th
FIFA will release another rankings next month, precisely on the
15th of February.