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