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Nigeria maintain 31st position on FIFA latest rankings

...Belgium is team of the Year

Nigeria’s Super Eagles maintained 31st position on a day Belgium were crowned the team of the Year in the latest FIFA rankings.

Super Eagles
Super Eagles

The Eagles are also third in Africa behind front runners Senegal (20th in the world) and Tunisia (27th in the world).

Nigeria are also among the top 10 biggest movers of the outgoing year.

Meanwhile, Belgium crowned Team of the Year, as Qatar are rated 2019’s biggest climber.

The Red Devils have held on to top spot in a December table barely impacted by just 19 friendlies towards the end of a year in which 1,082 international “A” matches have been played – an all-time high since the ranking’s 1993 inception.

World champions France remain in second place ahead of  Brazil in third, the positions they held in December
2018, but the make-up of the year-end top five has  changed, with England climbing one place in 2019 to end
the year in fourth and Uruguay moving up to fifth on the  back of a two-spot rise. Argentina (9th) and Colombia
(10th) are also in the top ten at the expense of  Switzerland (12th) and Denmark (16th), who have slipped
four and six places respectively over the course of the  year.

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The ranking’s Mover of the Year, meanwhile, are Qatar.  The FIFA World Cup 2022™ hosts gained an impressive 138  points over the course of a year in which they won the  AFC Asian Cup and made a strong start to the Asian Zone  World Cup qualifiers. Besides accumulating the biggest  points haul, Qatar have also jumped a year-high 38  places, followed closely by fellow climbers Algeria (up  32 ranks) and Japan (up 22 ranks).

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