{"id":39178,"date":"2014-08-14T11:42:24","date_gmt":"2014-08-14T11:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=39178"},"modified":"2014-08-14T11:46:56","modified_gmt":"2014-08-14T11:46:56","slug":"ghana-move-up-two-places-in-fifa-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=39178","title":{"rendered":"Ghana move up two places in FIFA rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ghana Black Stars have moved up two places in the latest FIFA Coca-Cola world rankings released on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The Stars amassed a total of 648 points, 6 points more than their previous 642.31 points accumulated in July after they exited from the group stages of the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana is now ranked 36<sup>th<\/sup> in the world and lie behind 2006 world cup opponents Czech Republic who occupy the 35<sup>th<\/sup> position.<\/p>\n<p>2014 World Cup winners, Germany remain at the top of the world ranking table with 1736 points.<\/p>\n<p>Argentina lie second place with 1604 points, Netherlands in third place with 1507 points with Columbia in fourth place.<\/p>\n<p>On the Continental table, the Black Stars of Ghana have now jumped to fourth place in Africa after they dropped to sixth in July.<\/p>\n<p>The desert foxes of Algeria remain the highest ranked club on the continent with Cote D\u2019Ivoire in second and the Super Eagles of Nigeria in third place.<\/p>\n<p>By: Benjamin Epton Owusu\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<br \/>\n<a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BenEpton_\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @BenEpton_<\/a><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ghana Black Stars have moved up two places in the latest FIFA Coca-Cola world rankings released on Thursday. The Stars amassed a total of 648 points, 6 points more than their previous 642.31 points accumulated in July after they exited from the group stages of the World Cup. Ghana is now ranked 36th in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":25689,"comment_status":"closed","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":[],"tags":[29,3],"class_list":["post-39178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dr-mahamudu-bawumia","tag-ghana-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39178","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=39178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}