{"id":19817,"date":"2024-02-15T10:59:31","date_gmt":"2024-02-15T10:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=19817"},"modified":"2024-02-15T10:59:31","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T10:59:31","slug":"aftermath-of-afcon-2023-super-eagles-climb-14-places-in-latest-fifa-ranking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/02\/15\/aftermath-of-afcon-2023-super-eagles-climb-14-places-in-latest-fifa-ranking\/","title":{"rendered":"Aftermath of AFCON 2023, Super Eagles Climb 14 Places In Latest FIFA Ranking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following their commendable performance at the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations, Nigeria&#8217;s Super Eagles have climbed 14 places to secure the 28th position in the latest FIFA rankings. This elevation also places them as the third-best team in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Despite finishing as the runners-up in the tournament, losing 2-1 to hosts Cote d\u2019Ivoire in the final, the Super Eagles&#8217; stellar display contributed to their significant ascent in the global football standings.<\/p>\n<p>The Atlas Lions of Morocco lead the African rankings, followed by the Terangha Lions, Egypt, and Cote d\u2019Ivoire. The next FIFA ranking update is scheduled for April 4th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following their commendable performance at the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations, Nigeria&#8217;s Super Eagles have climbed 14 places to secure the 28th position in the latest FIFA rankings. This elevation also places them as the third-best team in Africa. Despite finishing as the runners-up in the tournament, losing 2-1 to hosts Cote d\u2019Ivoire in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":19820,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19817"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19837,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19817\/revisions\/19837"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}