Stephen Keshi’s job of turning around the fortunes of the Nigerian national team, the Super Eagles, received a massive boost as the country jumped six places up from 63 to 57, according to the latest rankings released by world football governing body, FIFA, on Wednesday.
That upward move also reflected positively on its Africa rankings as the Eagles now sit on the 10th place in the continent – this is a significant improvement from the previous 16th position.
However, Cote d’Ivoire who are ranked 15 in the world, are still the best side in Africa as they sit on the number 1 spot with Algeria, who moved up five places to occupy Africa’s second spot, ranked 19th in the world. Mali are third on the Africa rankings after the West African nation dropped one place and are now ranked 28th in the world.
Quite expectedly, World and European champions, Spain, remain unshaken at the top of the rankings despite their 1-1 draw with France while Germany retained their second position.
Here are the top 20 ranked teams in world football according to FIFA’s monthly ratings:
- Spain
- Germany
- Argentina
- Portugal
- Italy
- England
- Netherlands
- Colombia
- Russia
- Croatia
- Uruguay
- Greece
- Brazil
- Mexico
- Cote d’Ivoire
- Switzerland
- Ecuador
- France
- Algeria
- Belgium
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