{"id":11532,"date":"2019-06-14T14:55:28","date_gmt":"2019-06-14T14:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=11532"},"modified":"2019-06-14T14:55:28","modified_gmt":"2019-06-14T14:55:28","slug":"nigeria-slides-down-three-spots-in-fifa-ranking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigeria-slides-down-three-spots-in-fifa-ranking","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria slides down three spots in FIFA Ranking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back and forth! Nigeria\u2019s movement in the FIFA Ranking between April and June has shown some level of inconsistency and especially in the global ranking.<\/p>\n<p>The Eagles slipped three spots from 42nd in the world to 45th in June and the latest ranking published by the world governing body.<\/p>\n<p>Despite holding firm to third spot in Africa, Nigeria failed to pick from their impressive jump back in April when the Country moved four places in the ranking.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Senegal are still the best team in Africa and are ranked 22nd in the world, with Tunisia in second and 25th globally.<\/p>\n<p>The aforementioned sides will take part in hostilities on the continent this month in Egypt when the Africa Cup of Nations gets under way.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria is in group B alongside Guinea, Madagascar and Burundi.<\/p>\n<p>These teams will be heading to AFCON ranked 13th (71), 25th (108) and 37th (134) respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Only Burundi in the group moved up stepping up two places while Guinea dropped three spots and Madagascar also slipped by a spot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back and forth! Nigeria\u2019s movement in the FIFA Ranking between April and June has shown some level of inconsistency and especially in the global ranking. The Eagles slipped three spots from 42nd in the world to 45th in June and the latest ranking published by the world governing body. Despite holding firm to third spot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":11533,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,18],"tags":[116,392,122,453],"class_list":["post-11532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-sport","tag-football","tag-league","tag-sports","tag-super-eagles"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nigeria slides down three spots in FIFA Ranking - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigeria-slides-down-three-spots-in-fifa-ranking\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nigeria slides down three spots in FIFA Ranking\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Back and forth! 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