{"id":295610,"date":"2011-03-09T14:53:36","date_gmt":"2011-03-09T14:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/09\/fifa-rankings-black-stars-still-africas-no-1\/"},"modified":"2011-03-09T14:53:36","modified_gmt":"2011-03-09T14:53:36","slug":"fifa-rankings-black-stars-still-africas-no-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/09\/fifa-rankings-black-stars-still-africas-no-1\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA Rankings: Black Stars Still Africa&#8217;s No.1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div>Ghana still remains Africa&#8217;s highest ranked team as March edition of the Fifa\/Coca-Cola World ranking released Wednesday reveals.<\/p>\n<p>Despite a thumping 4-1 win over Togo last month in an international friendly, the Black Stars dropped a significant 9 points to slip a place down on the overall ranking table to 16th.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Stars now have a 931 points and are the only side from the continent in the top 20.<\/p>\n<p>Ivory Coast still stay second with Egypt in third in the continental ranking.<\/p>\n<p>According to Fifa, a total of 55 friendly matches were taken into account for the March edition of the world rankings.<\/p>\n<p>Not many changes were recorded as world champions, Spain still leads the the overall standing followed by the Netherlands and Germany in third position.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/201ed65bget.media_59-150x60.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>[Read more here|View the original here|More|More|Read More|Read More|Read More|Read More|Continued here|More here|View original post here|More|See more here|See original article|Originally posted here|Visit site|See the original post||See the original article here|Read the original post|Original post|Read the article|See more here|Read the original|Link|Excerpt from|Taken from|View post|Visit link|Follow this link|Continue reading here|Continue Reading|See the article here|Read this article|View article|<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Ghana still remains Africa&#8217;s highest ranked team as March edition of the Fifa\/Coca-Cola World ranking released Wednesday reveals. Despite a thumping 4-1 win over Togo last month in an international friendly, the Black Stars dropped a significant 9 points to slip a place down on the overall ranking table to 16th. The Black Stars now have a 931 points and are the only side from the continent in the top 20<\/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-295610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>FIFA Rankings: Black Stars Still Africa&#039;s No.1 - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/09\/fifa-rankings-black-stars-still-africas-no-1\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"FIFA Rankings: Black Stars Still Africa&#039;s No.1 - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Ghana still remains Africa&#039;s highest ranked team as March edition of the Fifa\/Coca-Cola World ranking released Wednesday reveals. 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