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Monday, July 21, 2014

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Fifa rankings: Nigeria move up, Carpe Verde suffer big drop

Posted by wasaafrica at 1:51 AM No comments :
FIFA's World ranking for the month of July was recently released following the completion of the World Cup and this month's ranking includes very major shifts and drops .
One of the main changes in July's ranking includes Germany obvious number 1 position, following their World Cup victory, the current world cup champions are number 1 in FIFA's World ranking for the first time in almost 20 years while Argentina claimed the number 2 spot and The Netherlands jumped to the 3rd position in the world after beating host nation Brazil for the third place in the World Cup.
2010 World Cup champions, Spain who occupied the number 1 spot for a while have dropped to number 8 spot after they crashed out in the first round of the just completed World Cup. Host nations Brazil moved down 4 spots and are now number 7 in the World while Portugal are currently number 11 in the World.


African sides: Nigeria moved up to become the highest African team in FIFA's ranking for July. The Super Eagles of Nigeria now occupy the third spot in the Confederation of African Football region; they also moved up 10 spots in the global list as they are now up to 34th in the World. The Super Eagles of Nigeria did quite well in the just concluded world tournament as they made it to the last 16 before losing 2-0 to France. Along with Nigeria, north African nation Algeria performed well in Brazil and their number 1 spot remains unchanged in Africa.
Worst drops in Africa-Cape Verde suffered a 273 point drop, the biggest by any team in the World and obviously moved down from their fifth position in Africa to 15 and 75th place in the World.
Here's the top 10 African nations (World Ranking in parenthesis)
1. Algeria (24)
2. Ivory Coast (25)
3. Nigeria (34)
4. Egypt (36)
5. Ghana (38)
6. Tunisia (42)
7. Guinea (51)
8. Cameroon (53)
9. Burkina Faso (58)
10. Mali (60)







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Thursday, July 10, 2014

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FIFA REJECTS LUIZ SUAREZ AND URUGUAYAN FA APPEALS, SANCTION UPHELD.

Posted by wasaafrica at 4:13 PM No comments :

World football governing body has rejected Uruguay and Liverpool striker,  Luis Suarez's appeal against a 4-month ban from all football-related activities for biting Italian player Giorgio Chiellini.

The Liverpool striker lunged at Italy Chiellini shortly before Diego Godin scored to give Uruguay their 1-0 win, Chiellini later pulled his shirt to show the referee a bite mark on his shoulder.

FIFA's Appeal committee decided to reject the appeals lodged by both the Uruguayan FA and the 27-year-old player confirming the decision rendered by the FIFA Disciplinary Committee on June 25th, 2014 in its entirety: Suarez was banned for 4-month from all football related activities, he was also banned for nine international matches after the World Cup in Brazil. Suarez who has since apologized for his unruly behavior also received a 100,000 Swiss Francs (£65,000) from FIFA.
The committee is yet to decide when the Uruguayan player and the FA will be able to make an appeal to the Court of Arbitration of Sports (CAS).

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