{"id":295179,"date":"2011-03-09T11:27:36","date_gmt":"2011-03-09T11:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/09\/zambia-move-back-into-top-100\/"},"modified":"2011-03-09T11:27:36","modified_gmt":"2011-03-09T11:27:36","slug":"zambia-move-back-into-top-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/09\/zambia-move-back-into-top-100\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambia move back into top 100"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" align=\"right\" width=\"226\" cellpadding=\"0\" readability=\"1\">\n<tr readability=\"2\">\n<td readability=\"4\">\n<div readability=\"7\">\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/c7d9cc4ffifalogo226.jpg.jpg\" width=\"226\" height=\"170\" alt=\"Fifa logo\" border=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>World Cup champions Spain remain top of the monthly Fifa rankings<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><b>Zambia have returned to the top 100 of the Fifa world rankings thanks to a 4-0 victory over Swaziland.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Their progress is at the expense of Niger (104th, down 8 places), who were defeated 3-0 by Morocco. <\/p>\n<p>As expected, there are no significant moves by African teams in the latest world rankings. <\/p>\n<p>Ghana&#8217;s Black Stars are the only African side in the world&#8217;s top 20, ranked at number 16. <\/p>\n<p><!-- E SF --><\/p>\n<p>They are followed by Ivory Coast (25), Egypt (35) and Nigeria (39). <\/p>\n<p>South Africa continue to make steady progress, moving up to number 46 &#8211; their highest position since October 2005. <\/p>\n<p>World Cup champions Spain remain top of the monthly rankings while Argentina rise above Brazil to become South America&#8217;s top dogs. <\/p>\n<p>Spain lead an unchanged all-European top three from the Netherlands and Germany. <\/p>\n<p>Argentina are up one place at number four and Brazil slip to fifth place. <\/p>\n<p>Argentina have been rewarded for a 2-1 victory over Portugal in a friendly, while Brazil lost 1-0 to France.\n<\/p>\n<p><!-- E BO --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/c7d9cc4ffifalogo226.jpg-150x150.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>See the rest here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/go\/rss\/-\/sport1\/hi\/football\/africa\/9419670.stm\" title=\"Zambia move back into top 100\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Zambia move back into top 100<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> World Cup champions Spain remain top of the monthly Fifa rankings Zambia have returned to the top 100 of the Fifa world rankings thanks to a 4-0 victory over Swaziland. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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