Former African champions, Nigeria’s Super Eagles retained her 31st position on the latest World football governing body, FIFA’s monthly ranking.
Despite no international matches played since last edition, the Nigerian side trails highest ranked African teams, Senegal and Tunisia with 1,493 points.
The spread of COVID-19 remained an obstacle to the staging of international matches. This has again affected the latest FIFA World Ranking, which remains unchanged.
Belgium remained at the summit ahead of France and Brazil, who complete the podium, while England and Uruguay continue to occupy fourth and fifth, respectively. Lying in wait behind them are, in descending order, Croatia, Portugal, Spain, Argentina and Colombia.
Outside of the top 10, 200 other national teams are waiting to get back in action and shake up world football’s hierarchy.
The resumption or start of qualifying for the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 in the respective confederations is awaited with eagerness and should see plenty of movement in the ranking in the months ahead.
The next FIFA ranking will be published on July 16, 2020.
In another news, The former Nigeria coach was one of the finest the country ever produced, but despite being reliable and available, he never got his due in life
There have been few coaches as deeply entwined with the Nigeria national team as Shuaibu Amodu.
Over the course of three separate spells (and a half, if one is inclined to include an interim brief in 2015), the former BCC Lions and Orlando Pirates boss became the quintessential midwife; like the Biblical Moses – delivering but never quite establishing, seeing but prevented from grasping.
The lede here is obviously the fact that, while on two occasions in the 2000s Amodu qualified Nigeria for the World Cup, he never actually led the Super Eagles to the Mundial.
However, even his first stint in charge – between 1995 and 1997 – was ended in a fashion that seemed to presage what would follow: a falling out with erstwhile Sports minister Jim Nwobodo saw him replaced after two matches of the 1998 World Cup qualifying series.
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