{"id":248464,"date":"2016-09-15T11:20:58","date_gmt":"2016-09-15T11:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=248464"},"modified":"2016-09-15T11:20:58","modified_gmt":"2016-09-15T11:20:58","slug":"ghana-falls-heavily-in-latest-fifa-ranking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=248464","title":{"rendered":"Ghana falls heavily in latest FIFA ranking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana is one of the teams that has dropped alarmingly in the latest FIFA rankings released today [Thursday].<\/p>\n<p>The Black Stars were ranked 35<sup>th<\/sup> on the global stage but have dropped to 43<sup>rd\u00a0<\/sup>after failing to beat minors Rwanda at home and also losing to Russia in an international friendly in Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>On the African continent, Avram Grant\u2019s men have dropped from second to fifth behind, Cote d\u2019Ivoire, second placed Algeria, third placed Senegal and Tunisia.<\/p>\n<p>In the world rankings, Brazil climbed back into the top five as Argentina and Belgium kept their positions at first and second respectively.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Top ten teams in the world<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Argentina<\/p>\n<p>Belgium<\/p>\n<p>Germany<\/p>\n<p>Colombia<\/p>\n<p>Brazil<\/p>\n<p>Chile<\/p>\n<p>Portugal<\/p>\n<p>France<\/p>\n<p>Uruguay<\/p>\n<p>Wales<\/p>\n<p><strong>Top ten African teams<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cote d\u2019Ivoire<\/p>\n<p>Algeria<\/p>\n<p>Senegal<\/p>\n<p>Tunisia<\/p>\n<p>Ghana<\/p>\n<p>Congo DR<\/p>\n<p>Egypt<\/p>\n<p>Congo<\/p>\n<p>Mali<\/p>\n<p>Morocco<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Rahman Osman\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana is one of the teams that has dropped alarmingly in the latest FIFA rankings released today [Thursday]. The Black Stars were ranked 35th on the global stage but have dropped to 43rd\u00a0after failing to beat minors Rwanda at home and also losing to Russia in an international friendly in Moscow. On the African continent, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":238387,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-248464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=248464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/238387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=248464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=248464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=248464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}