{"id":29790,"date":"2011-09-22T00:40:46","date_gmt":"2011-09-22T04:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=29790"},"modified":"2011-09-22T00:40:46","modified_gmt":"2011-09-22T04:40:46","slug":"several-african-minnows-make-big-moves-on-the-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=29790","title":{"rendered":"Several African minnows make big moves on the rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sierra Leone and Namibia have both moved up 24 places in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fifa.com\/worldfootball\/ranking\/lastranking\/gender=m\/fullranking.html#confederation=23913&amp;rank=208\">latest Fifa World Rankings<\/a> while the biggest movers are Togo, who are up 26 spots.\u00a0 (Photo: <em>Celtic striker Mohamed Bangura scored for Sierra Leone as they beat Egypt to help them move up Fifa&#8217;s World Rankings)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Leone Stars are now 68 on the global list and 16 on the continent thanks mainly to their 2-1 win over Egypt in a 2012 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Namibia are now 30th in Africa and 119 on the overall list, while Togo&#8217;s move takes them to 95 and 25 on the respective lists.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lesotho&#8217;s move of 18 places comes despite the country not being involved in qualifying for next year&#8217;s Nations Cup.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Seydou Keita&#8217;s return not only inspired Mali to a 3-0 win over Cape Verde in a Nations Cup qualifier but also saw them gain 19 places in the rankings.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ivory Coast remain the top ranked side in Africa, but drop one place in the world from last month&#8217;s list to 16.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Losses in Nations Cup qualifiers in September saw Cape Verde, Botswana, Mozambique and The Gambia all suffer significant drops on the list.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">World Cup winners Spain regained the top spot on the global rankings as they leapfrogged The Netherlands.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"29790_africas-top-ten-glob_1\" ><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Africa<\/strong><strong>&#8216;s Top Ten (global ranking in brackets):<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<address>1. Ivory Coast (16)<\/address>\n<address>2. Egypt (36)<\/address>\n<address>3. Ghana (37)<\/address>\n<address>4. Burkina Faso (41)<\/address>\n<address>5. Senegal (42)<\/address>\n<address>6. Nigeria (43)<\/address>\n<address>7. Algeria (46)<\/address>\n<address>8. Cameroon (48)<\/address>\n<address>9. South Africa (51)<\/address>\n<address>10. Morocco (59)<\/address>\n<address>\u00a0<\/address>\n<address>BBC Sport<\/address>\n<p><strong><em>Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sierra Leone and Namibia have both moved up 24 places in the latest Fifa World Rankings while the biggest movers are Togo, who are up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29793,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[824,1],"tags":[9883,10126,2651],"class_list":["post-29790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","category-uncategorized","tag-celtic","tag-fifa-world-rankings","tag-mohamed-bangura"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}