{"id":16032,"date":"2019-09-27T16:01:42","date_gmt":"2019-09-27T16:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=16032"},"modified":"2019-09-27T16:01:42","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T16:01:42","slug":"super-falcons-36th-in-the-world-still-africas-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/super-falcons-36th-in-the-world-still-africas-best","title":{"rendered":"Super Falcons 36th in the World, still Africa\u2019s best"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria was a non-mover in the latest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fifa.com\/\">FIFA<\/a> Ranking for Women\u2019s national teams released on September 27.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nigeria_women%27s_national_football_team\">Super Falcons<\/a> hold on to the top spot in Africa and also maintain their position as the Continent\u2019s highest ranked team (36).<\/p>\n<p>In July, the previous ranking showed Nigeria climbed two spots in the world, but remain stationery in September with Cameroon, Ghana, South Africa and Ivory Coast completing the top five.<\/p>\n<p>Later this month Nigeria will battle Ivory Coast in a third round 2020 CAF Women\u2019s Olympic Qualifying Tournament qualifier.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NEW WOMEN&#39;S <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FIFARANKING?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FIFARANKING<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NGSuper_Falcons?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NGSuper_Falcons<\/a> remain top in Africa ? and 36th in the world<\/p>\n<p>\u2139\ufe0f? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3ucALNWylV\">https:\/\/t.co\/3ucALNWylV<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MVxDvZjsEQ\">pic.twitter.com\/MVxDvZjsEQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NGSuper_Falcons (@NGSuper_Falcons) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NGSuper_Falcons\/status\/1177537354552266752?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 27, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria was a non-mover in the latest FIFA Ranking for Women\u2019s national teams released on September 27. The Super Falcons hold on to the top spot in Africa and also maintain their position as the Continent\u2019s highest ranked team (36). In July, the previous ranking showed Nigeria climbed two spots in the world, but remain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":16034,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,18],"tags":[174,115,426],"class_list":["post-16032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-sport","tag-football-in-nigeria","tag-nigerian-sports","tag-players"],"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>Super Falcons 36th in the World, still Africa\u2019s best - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In July, the previous ranking showed Nigeria climbed two spots in the world, but remain stationery in September with Cameroon, Ghana\" \/>\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\/super-falcons-36th-in-the-world-still-africas-best\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Super Falcons 36th in the World, still Africa\u2019s best\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In July, the previous ranking showed Nigeria climbed two spots in the world, but remain stationery in September with Cameroon, Ghana\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/super-falcons-36th-in-the-world-still-africas-best\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-09-27T16:01:42+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/09\/Super-Falcons-of-Nigeria-612x400.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"612\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"400\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/super-falcons-36th-in-the-world-still-africas-best#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/super-falcons-36th-in-the-world-still-africas-best\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"Super Falcons 36th in the World, still Africa\u2019s best\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-09-27T16:01:42+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/super-falcons-36th-in-the-world-still-africas-best\"},\"wordCount\":105,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/super-falcons-36th-in-the-world-still-africas-best#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/09\/Super-Falcons-of-Nigeria-612x400.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Football in Nigeria\",\"Nigerian sports\",\"players\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Sport\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/super-falcons-36th-in-the-world-still-africas-best#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/super-falcons-36th-in-the-world-still-africas-best\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/super-falcons-36th-in-the-world-still-africas-best\",\"name\":\"Super Falcons 36th in the World, still Africa\u2019s best - 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