{"id":450095,"date":"2011-06-29T11:09:14","date_gmt":"2011-06-29T11:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/29\/huge-blow-for-ghana-as-country-slips-from-fifa-rankings\/"},"modified":"2011-06-29T11:09:14","modified_gmt":"2011-06-29T11:09:14","slug":"huge-blow-for-ghana-as-country-slips-from-fifa-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/29\/huge-blow-for-ghana-as-country-slips-from-fifa-rankings\/","title":{"rendered":"Huge blow for Ghana as country slips from FIFA rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"56.5073529412\">\n<p>You Are Here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanabusinessnews.com\">Home<\/a> \u00bb <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanabusinessnews.com\/category\/second-lead\/\" title=\"View all posts in Second Lead\" rel=\"category tag\">Second Lead<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanabusinessnews.com\/category\/sports\/\" title=\"View all posts in Sports\" rel=\"category tag\">Sports<\/a> \u00bb Huge blow for Ghana as country slips from FIFA rankings<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span>Page last updated at Wednesday, June 29, 2011 11:11 AM \/\/ <\/span><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanabusinessnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Black-Stars_Arrival.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-34262 alignleft\" title=\"Black Stars_Arrival\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanabusinessnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Black-Stars_Arrival.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"248\" height=\"210\" \/><\/a>Ghana suffers a huge blow on the latest FIFA rankings released today June 29, 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana slipped on the overall rankings by 18 places from the 15th to 33rd position.<\/p>\n<p>The slip equals the worst move by the country which happened in July 2007, according to FIFA.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana, which has enjoyed the top position in Africa, is now second behind Ivory Coast.<\/p>\n<p>The country now has 735 points, losing 183 points from the last rankings in May 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Spain, Netherlands, Germany, England and Brazil secured the first, second, third, fourth and fifth positions respectively on the rankings.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>By Ekow Quandzie<\/p>\n<h4>Comments<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p>Excerpt from:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanabusinessnews.com\/2011\/06\/29\/huge-blow-for-ghana-as-country-slips-from-fifa-rankings\/\" title=\"Huge blow for Ghana as country slips from FIFA rankings\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Huge blow for Ghana as country slips from FIFA rankings<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> You Are Here: Home \u00bb Second Lead , Sports \u00bb Huge blow for Ghana as country slips from FIFA rankings Page last updated at Wednesday, June 29, 2011 11:11 AM \/\/ Ghana suffers a huge blow on the latest FIFA rankings released today June 29, 2011. Ghana slipped on the overall rankings by 18 places from the 15th to 33rd position. The slip equals the worst move by the country which happened in July 2007, according to FIFA. <\/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-450095","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>Huge blow for Ghana as country slips from FIFA rankings - 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\/06\/29\/huge-blow-for-ghana-as-country-slips-from-fifa-rankings\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Huge blow for Ghana as country slips from FIFA rankings - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"You Are Here: Home \u00bb Second Lead , Sports \u00bb Huge blow for Ghana as country slips from FIFA rankings Page last updated at Wednesday, June 29, 2011 11:11 AM \/\/ Ghana suffers a huge blow on the latest FIFA rankings released today June 29, 2011. 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