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Friday, 13 January 2017

Nigeria's FIFA Ranking Boosts To 50th Position And 7th In Africa


Without precedent for late years, the Super Eagles of Nigeria have softened into the top 50 up the most recent rankings discharged yesterday by the world football administering body (FIFA).

The Coach Gernot Rohr-drove Eagles had completed in the 51st position toward the finish of 2016, yet moved a stage upward on the most recent table. Nigeria now has a sum of 619 points as against the 616 in their last positioning. The Super Eagles have likewise climbed to the seventh position in Africa as against their eighth place in December 2016.

Nigeria's best setting in the FIFA rankings was fifth, a position accomplished in 1994 after a noteworthy show of winning the Africa Cup of Nations and their presentation World Cup appearance that year in the United States.

Senegal, with an aggregate of 743 points, remains the most noteworthy positioned African national group. The Senegalese is positioned 33 world wide, above Cup of Nations titleholders, Elephants of Cote d'Ivoire (34), Egypt (35), Tunisia (36), Algeria (39), Congo DR (49) and Nigeria (50) in the most recent rankings.

Every one of the nations, with the exception of Nigeria are as of now in Gabon to challenge for the 2017 African Cup of Nations, which will start tomorrow and end on February 5. The Super Eagles and their partners from Saudi Arabia were two new groups to have softened into the main 50 up the most recent FIFA's positioning. Saudi Arabia (48th, up 6), and Nigeria (50th, up 1) climb to the detriment of Albania (51st, down 2) and Burkina Faso (53rd, down 3). Just 12 "A" matches were played since the last positioning of 2016.

The main 34 places of the positioning table stay unaltered with Argentina, Brazil Germany as yet holding in the first place, second and third place individually.

Be that as it may, the January's best entertainers, both in focuses and rankings, were Suriname (128th, up 22). In any case, the greatest move in any case, the northern South American group is still some separation from their best-ever position (84th), recorded in 2008. The next FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking will be distributed on 9 February 2017.

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