Nigeria’s Super Eagles Rise 10 Places in this Month’s FIFA Rankings

World football’s governing body FIFA on Thursday released its world rankings of national football teams. The list, among other things, shows a marked improvement in the placement of Nigeria’s senior football team, the Super Eagles- it puts them in 50^th place, 10 higher than the 60^th place they managed in the previous month.

The leap recorded by the Super Eagles reflects a recent positive run in their world cup qualifying campaign, and particularly their defeat of the highly rated Algerians. Nigeria now ranks 7^th on the African continent, a position it shares with Burkina Faso, which also occupies the 50 position in the global rankings. Senegal leads the way in Africa, followed closely by Cote d’Ivore and Tunisia; the two teams jointly occupy 2^nd place in Africa.

On the global stage, Argentina maintained number one spot. However, Brazil took over the second position, forcing Germany to slide to third. Chile and Belgium came in at number 4 and 5 respectively.

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Ikenna Nwachukwu holds a bachelor's degree in Economics from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. He loves to look at the world through multiple lenses- economic, political, religious and philosophical- and to write about what he observes in a witty, yet reflective style.

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