{"id":3943,"date":"2012-12-20T17:04:13","date_gmt":"2012-12-20T17:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=3943"},"modified":"2012-12-20T17:04:13","modified_gmt":"2012-12-20T17:04:13","slug":"eagles-soar-in-fifa-ranking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=3943","title":{"rendered":"EAGLES SOAR IN FIFA RANKING"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><strong><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/nigeriaa......jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3944\" title=\"nigeriaa.....\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/nigeriaa......jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"599\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/nigeriaa......jpg 599w, http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/nigeriaa.....-300x178.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 599px) 100vw, 599px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Nigerian Super eagles have moved up five places from to 47th spot in the December ranking made public on Wednesday by the world football governing body, FIFA.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria, who were ranked 57<sup>th<\/sup> last month, however maintain her 10<sup>th<\/sup> position in the African ranking, with\u00a0 Burundi making the highest leap of 24 places to 104<sup>th<\/sup> in the world and 27<sup>th<\/sup> in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The Stephen Keshi- tutored team\u2019s improvement on the monthly ranking would not come as a surprise to followers of the game. The Eagles recorded 3-1 victory over South American Nation Venezuela on 15<sup>th<\/sup> of November, 2012.<\/p>\n<p>The match that was played in Miami, Florida in United State Of America fell within the month under review.<\/p>\n<p>Cote d\u2019 Ivorie still sit on top of the African ranking, as the Nation moves a step to 14<sup>th<\/sup> in the world, while Algeria is Africa\u2019s second best team and 19<sup>th<\/sup> in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Mali maintained her third position in the African ranking, but the west African Nation is now ranked 25<sup>th<\/sup> in the world, as they moved three place from 28<sup>th<\/sup> in November ranking.<\/p>\n<p>The top ten teams on the world ranking remained unchanged as Spain will finish the year at the summit for the fifth time in succession, followed by Germany, Argentina and Italy.<\/p>\n<p>The mover of the year goes to Colombia for the second time since the FIFA\/coca-cola world ranking was introduced in 1993. Los cafeteros finished 2011, in 36<sup>th<\/sup>, but thanks to six wins, one draw and only one defeat to end 2012 as the 5<sup>th<\/sup> best team in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria will have to do very well at the 2013 AFCON games in South Africa come January if they want to get back to the top ten like they did in 1994 when they were ranked 5<sup>th<\/sup> in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps winning the African cup of Nations would be a good direction for a good beginning to get back to the top.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nigerian Super eagles have moved up five places from to 47th spot in the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports-news"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","elegant-magazine-featured":"","elegant-magazine-medium":"","elegant-magazine-medium-small":"","elegant-magazine-thumbnail-small":""},"author_info":{"info":["Imo Trumpeta"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?cat=13\" rel=\"category\">Sports<\/a>","tag_info":"Sports","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3945,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3943\/revisions\/3945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}