Friday, March 27

Latest FIFA ranking pitch Super Falcons (33) in group of death-Brila sports

Back from time travel though, its 70 days before the 7th edition of the Women’s World Cup and Nigeria will enter the competition as Africa’s champions and 33rd best in the world.
The latest ranking was released Friday, Nigeria dropped one place from 32 but remained best African team. Germany voted as the best Women footballing nation. All the African teams dropped points except for South Africa (Banyana Banyana) and Madagascar that were non-movers.

The US Women’s Soccer team (2),Sweden (5) and Australia (10) are the teams Edwin Okon will have to tinker winning strategies against in the group stages of the competition.
A glance at the respective strengths of the World Cup groups reveals that Group D, which contains the USA (2nd), Australia (10th), Sweden (5th) and Nigeria (33rd), is the strongest on paper with an average ranking of 12.5, while Group C, with Japan (4th), Switzerland (19th), Cameroon (53rd) and Ecuador (48th), is the weakest (31) per FIFA.

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