{"id":1217473,"date":"2022-10-06T16:58:35","date_gmt":"2022-10-06T16:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/06\/black-stars-head-into-2022-world-cup-as-the-lowest-ranked-nation\/"},"modified":"2022-10-06T16:58:35","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T16:58:35","slug":"black-stars-head-into-2022-world-cup-as-the-lowest-ranked-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/06\/black-stars-head-into-2022-world-cup-as-the-lowest-ranked-nation\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Stars head into 2022 World Cup as the lowest ranked nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/1665075515_876_Ghanavs-Nicaragua-1024x682-1-696x464.jpg\"   alt=\"Black Stars v Nicaragua\" title=\"Black Stars v Nicaragua\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Black Stars v Nicaragua<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ghana will be heading to Qatar as the least-ranking country in the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The 2010 Fifa World Cup quarter finalists have dropped to the 61st place after previously holding the 60th position.<\/p>\n<p>The latest log comes after a 3-0 loss to the highest ranking team Brazil and a 1-0 win against Nicaragua in the recent international friendlies.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>The West African side is placed 11th on the continent with Senegal still maintaining the first spot. Morocco, Tunisia, Nigeria and Algeria complete Africa\u2019s top five.<\/p>\n<p>Brazil also maintained their top spot on the globe in a very familiar top 10, with Italy leapfrogging Spain into 6th, the only change.<\/p>\n<p>In total, 172 games were played for the latest rankings, with Ghana (5) playing the most games.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"\/>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"QR68mdfhd2o\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The side-chick claims is because of us which is why my brother doesn&#039;t want to marry her-Big Sister.\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QR68mdfhd2o?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black Stars v Nicaragua Ghana will be heading to Qatar as the least-ranking country in the tournament. The 2010 Fifa World Cup quarter finalists have dropped to the 61st place after previously holding the 60th position. The latest log comes after a 3-0 loss to the highest ranking team Brazil and a 1-0 win against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1216771,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[94,262,13987,5506,9854,95,784],"class_list":["post-1217473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-black","tag-cup","tag-lowest","tag-nation","tag-ranked","tag-stars","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1217473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1217473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1217473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1217473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}