{"id":418317,"date":"2017-09-14T13:00:27","date_gmt":"2017-09-14T13:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/09\/14\/ghana-drops-to-52nd-in-latest-fifa-rankings\/"},"modified":"2017-09-14T13:00:27","modified_gmt":"2017-09-14T13:00:27","slug":"ghana-drops-to-52nd-in-latest-fifa-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/09\/14\/ghana-drops-to-52nd-in-latest-fifa-rankings\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana drops to 52nd in latest FIFA rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Sports News of Thursday, 14 September 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>citifmonline.com<\/p>\n<p>2017-09-14<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/77116021.295.jpg\" alt=\"Black Stars45\" title=\"Black Stars45\" width=\"295\" height=\"177\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Black Stars<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=149916385178506\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=149916385178506\">&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/1505394027_423_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Ghana fell two places to 52nd in the latest FIFA rankings released today by the world governing body for the month of September.<\/p>\n<p>Between the last rankings in August and now, the main Black Stars team has drawn once and won once both in matches with Congo Brazzaville while the Black Stars B team lost 2-1 to Burkina Faso in the qualifiers for the 2018 CHAN tournament in Kenya.<\/p>\n<p>These results went into the determining the team\u2019s position on the global rankings.<\/p>\n<p>On the continent, Ghana is 8th while Egypt, Tunisia, Senegal, DR Congo and Nigeria are in the top five places respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Germany, Brazil,  Portugal, Argentina, Belgium, Poland, Switzerland, France, Chile and Colombia close out the top ten teams in the rankings.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 4 updated by: -1 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sports News of Thursday, 14 September 2017 Source: citifmonline.com 2017-09-14 Black Stars &#13; Ghana fell two places to 52nd in the latest FIFA rankings released today by the world governing body for the month of September. 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