{"id":1269491,"date":"2022-12-23T17:03:35","date_gmt":"2022-12-23T17:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/23\/ghana-improves-in-fifa-ranking-but-maintains-position-in-africa\/"},"modified":"2022-12-23T17:03:35","modified_gmt":"2022-12-23T17:03:35","slug":"ghana-improves-in-fifa-ranking-but-maintains-position-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/23\/ghana-improves-in-fifa-ranking-but-maintains-position-in-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana improves in FIFA ranking but maintains position in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"460\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/1669730129_730_Screenshot-2022-11-29-090632-696x460.png\"   alt=\"Black Stars\" title=\"Black Stars\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Black Stars <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ghana will finish the year in the 58th position in the FIFA ranking after moving three spots up following their involvement at the just-ended World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana began the competition as the lowest-ranked team among the 32 teams, having been relegated to the 61st position.<\/p>\n<p>The surge in their ranking comes following the win over South Korea while also suffering defeats to Portugal and Uruguay.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>However, the Black Stars\u2019 position on the African rankings remains unchanged as they still occupy the 11th slot.<\/p>\n<p>Senegal drops to the second position with World Cup semi-finalists Morocco taking the top position on the continent.<\/p>\n<p>Tunisia comes in third with Cameroon and Nigerian following in fourth and fifth respectively.<\/p>\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=\"YGqJSeCVAL8\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Skill Training: Patmos Orphanage Home empowers orphans (23-12-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YGqJSeCVAL8?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 Ghana will finish the year in the 58th position in the FIFA ranking after moving three spots up following their involvement at the just-ended World Cup. Ghana began the competition as the lowest-ranked team among the 32 teams, having been relegated to the 61st position. The surge in their ranking comes following the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1259567,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[671,779,85,3724,3315,3316,11625],"class_list":["post-1269491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-africa","tag-fifa","tag-ghana","tag-improves","tag-maintains","tag-position","tag-ranking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269491","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=1269491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1269491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1269491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1269491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}