{"id":26031,"date":"2024-04-05T09:23:08","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T09:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=26031"},"modified":"2024-04-05T09:23:08","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T09:23:08","slug":"super-eagles-position-slips-in-latest-fifa-ranking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/04\/05\/super-eagles-position-slips-in-latest-fifa-ranking\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Eagles&#8217; Position Slips in Latest FIFA Ranking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The FIFA world rankings, updated on Thursday, saw Nigeria&#8217;s Super Eagles drop from 28th to 30th place globally.<\/p>\n<p>In Africa, the Eagles hold the third position, trailing behind Morocco&#8217;s Atlas Lions and Senegal&#8217;s Teranga Lions.<\/p>\n<p>Morocco leads the African rankings at 13th place globally, while Senegal follows closely at 17th.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, in February, Nigeria made a significant leap of 14 places to secure the 28th spot, attributed to their performance in the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations where they finished as runners-up.<\/p>\n<p>However, South Africa&#8217;s Bafana Bafana, opponents of the Eagles in the 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifiers, fell to 59th place, while Benin Republic, another opponent, climbed to 97th place.<\/p>\n<p>Argentina, reigning World Cup champions, maintain the top spot, followed by France, Belgium, England, and Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>The next FIFA rankings will be released on June 20, 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FIFA world rankings, updated on Thursday, saw Nigeria&#8217;s Super Eagles drop from 28th to 30th place globally. In Africa, the Eagles hold the third position, trailing behind Morocco&#8217;s Atlas Lions and Senegal&#8217;s Teranga Lions. Morocco leads the African rankings at 13th place globally, while Senegal follows closely at 17th. Previously, in February, Nigeria made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":26033,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[805],"class_list":["post-26031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-fifa-ranking"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26031","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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26031"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26078,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26031\/revisions\/26078"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}