{"id":4966,"date":"2013-01-17T13:38:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-17T13:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2013\/01\/ghana-surge-on-fifa-ranking-ahead-of-afcon\/"},"modified":"2013-01-17T13:38:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-17T13:38:00","slug":"ghana-surge-on-fifa-ranking-ahead-of-afcon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/01\/17\/ghana-surge-on-fifa-ranking-ahead-of-afcon\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana Surge On Fifa Ranking Ahead Of Afcon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_210037\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter c15\" readability=\"7\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-210037\" title=\"BLACK-STARS1-300x199\" src=\"http:\/\/img.ghanamma.com\/uploads\/2013\/01\/b8ffBLACK-STARS1-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Black Stars are ranked 26th in the world Africa and fourth on the continent<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Ghana\u00a0<span id=\"GRmark_acb4d6e75c9f1e3d9d579e9612c11193b26ad68e_have moved:0\" class=\"GRcorrect\">have moved<\/span>\u00a0four places up in the latest FIFA ranking released\u00a0<span id=\"GRmark_acb4d6e75c9f1e3d9d579e9612c11193b26ad68e_for:1\" class=\"GRcorrect\">for<\/span>\u00a0the month of January.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Black Stars climbed from last year\u2019s 30th <span id=\"GRmark_637a4471fc27c258b536338b009c7c68cea77a92_placeto:0\" class=\"GRcorrect\">placeto<\/span>\u00a026 but remained the continent\u2019s fourth best nation.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana amassed 788 points on the table but stayed behind their Nations Cup Group B opponents Mali who maintained their world ranking in 25th position.<\/p>\n<p>The four-time continental champions beat Egypt and Tunisia last week in pre-Nations Cup friendlies.<\/p>\n<p>Ivory Coast still remained the best ranked Africa country after an unchanged 14th place\u00a0<span id=\"GRmark_01ee1be130170fe1b70f217e5ed36338de3dd96d_on:0\" class=\"GRcorrect\">on<\/span>\u00a0the FIFA ranking.<\/p>\n<p>Algeria, who face Ivory Coast, Togo and Tunisia in Group D, slipped three places down to 22nd but held on to second spot on the continent.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black Stars are ranked 26th in the world Africa and fourth on the continent Ghana\u00a0have moved\u00a0four places up in the latest FIFA ranking released\u00a0for\u00a0the month of January.\u00a0 The Black Stars climbed from last year\u2019s 30th placeto\u00a026 but remained the continent\u2019s fourth best nation. &#8230;<\/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-4966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}