Nigeria drops in latest FIFA Rankings

Nigeria’s Super Eagles have  made a drop in the latest FIFA Rankings released on Thursday, in Zurich
The Super Eagles have not played a game since the last FIFA Rankings where they jumped 10 places up from 60th to 50th.
In the latest Rankings, Nigeria dropped one place to 51 position, with  Burkina Faso still in the 50th place. Both countries were jointly ranked  in the same position last month.
The Super Eagles also dropped in the Africa Rankings from seventh place to eighth position.
Senegal in 33rd position remained number one in Africa closely followed by  Cote d’Ivoire (34), Tunisia (35), Egypt (36), Algeria (38), Congo DR (48) Burkina Faso (50) Nigeria (51), Ghana (53) and Morocco (57).
In world football, Argentina, led by Edgardo Bauza, are also the ninth-best movers on the rankings for 2016.
France took the honours for the best movers on the list, awarded to the country that gained the most ranking points since December of last year.
The French team also tasted defeat in their quadrennial continental competition as they lost 1-0 to Portugal in the final of the UEFA European Championships on home soil in Paris.
France are seventh in the final ranking update for 2016, behind Colombia in sixth and Belgium in fifth.
Other nations who have made impressive moves on the list include Guinea-Bissau who have jumped 78 places to 68th since December 2015.
With only 15 men’s international top-tier games played since the release of the last rankings, there have been few significant changes, with no movement in the top 10.