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| The home based Eagles at the recent Chan Championships |
Nigeria super Eagles ranking.
I give up totally on Fifa,cos i have no idea what their criteria is based on for their rankings.Nigeria in
particular seems to suffer the most at their hands when it comes to their rankings.Nigeria are the African Champions,came 3rd in the recent Championships and only lost through penalties in the semi-finals..Nigeria also did not lose a single game towards becoming the African Champions ,yet every time their is a ranking,the Super Eagles drop lower and lower.At the rate Nigeria can win the world cup and still; be ranked 20th in the world!
Here's a recent report from NAN on the latest rankings.
Nigeria dropped by six spots in the February rankings of the Federation of International Football Associations to 47th in the world.This was in spite of the country’s third-place position at the just-concluded African Nations Championship held from Jan. 11 to Feb. 1 in South Africa.In the rankings table on the world football governing body’s website on Thursday, Nigeria dropped from 41st in the world, with 616 points.It had 710 points in the January rankings.The News Agency of Nigeria recalls that FIFA had stated after the January rankings that results from the 2014 CHAN would be taken into consideration in the February rankings.
In the latest rankings, Nigeria dropped to the eighth position in Africa as against its January position of seventh in Africa and 41st in the world.Among African nations, Nigeria is currently placed behind Cote d’Ivoire, Algeria, Cape Verde Island, Ghana, Egypt, Tunisia and Cameroon, according to the rankings.Cote d’Ivoire, which leads the African countries with 841 points, is rated 23rd in the world, while Algeria, second in Africa with 819 points, is 26th in the world.
The rankings showed that Cape Verde Island garnered 799 points to be third in Africa, Ghana, 799 points; Egypt, 733 points; Tunisia, 656 points; and Cameroon, 626 points.Libya, the 2014 CHAN champions, dropped by six spots to be 14th in Africa and 68th in the world.Ghana, runners-up to Libya in CHAN, dropped by 13 spots to become 37th in the world and fourth in Africa.However Zimbabwe, which was the fourth-placed team in CHAN, climbed by five spots in the ranking to become the 27th in Africa and 100th football nation in the world.The global ranking also showed that Spain, Germany and Argentina retained first, second and third positions respectively.
Switzerland, now sixth, leapfrogged Uruguay which dropped to seventh position, while Italy is now in the eighth position.Portugal, now fourth in the world, swapped spots with Colombia which took the fifth position.Brazil went up by one spot to become the ninth football nation, while The Netherlands are 10th in the rankings.
According to FIFA, 42 international ‘A’ matches were taken into account for the February rankings, 40 of which were friendly matches.
NAN reports that the next FIFA/Coca-Cola World Rankings will be published on March 13, 2014.