{"id":90968,"date":"2015-02-12T10:37:42","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T10:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=90968"},"modified":"2015-02-12T10:46:25","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T10:46:25","slug":"ghana-moves-12-places-up-in-latest-fifa-ranking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=90968","title":{"rendered":"Ghana moves 12 places up in latest FIFA ranking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana has\u00a0moved 12 places up in the latest FIFA world ranking to 25<sup>th<\/sup> position, and are now 3<sup>rd<\/sup>\u00a0in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;2ZMS8gm37q0mgWErVJns5VU7AMk9FQpR&#8221;]In the latest edition of the FIFA ranking, the Black Stars amassed a total of 864 points which surpassed their previous 714 points from January 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana is likely to climb even further in the next ranking after placing 2nd in the just ended Africa Cup of Nations in Equatorial Guinea.<\/p>\n<p>The desert foxes of Algeria are still on top the African chart with reigning African Champions, Cote D\u2019ivoire following keenly at Second place.<\/p>\n<p>The Ivorian\u2019s climbed up 8 places on the table to rank among the top 20 teams in the world.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/80370660_025484109-11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-84503 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/80370660_025484109-11.jpg\" alt=\"Ghana AFCON\" width=\"512\" height=\"288\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tunisia, Cape Verde, Senegal, Nigeria, Guinea, Cameroon and DR. Congo constituted the top ten teams on the African Continent.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest drop on the African continent was 2012 champions Zambia who dropped 10 places to rank 60<sup>th<\/sup> in the world.<\/p>\n<p>2015 host Equatorial Guinea had the highest leap on the continent after they moved up sixty-nine 69 places to occupy number 12 position on the African continent.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Germany continues to rank number one (1) in the world with Argentina, Columbia Belgium and the Netherlands occupying the second (2<sup>nd<\/sup>) to fifth (5<sup>th<\/sup>) position respectively.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Benjamin Epton Owusu\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana has\u00a0moved 12 places up in the latest FIFA world ranking to 25th position, and are now 3rd\u00a0in Africa. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;2ZMS8gm37q0mgWErVJns5VU7AMk9FQpR&#8221;]In the latest edition of the FIFA ranking, the Black Stars amassed a total of 864 points which surpassed their previous 714 points from January 2015. Ghana is likely to climb even further in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"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":[],"tags":[29,43,3,38],"class_list":["post-90968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-dr-mahamudu-bawumia","tag-foresight-medical-center","tag-ghana-news","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90968","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\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}