Royal2011: Pls note that our ranking will only surge after consideration of the AFCON matches.What helped us were some of the friendliest we played before AFCON.By next month we should climb to about 15th position in the world.The nations cup just ended so the matches were not put into consideration.This ranking was for the month of February.So lets wait till match before we complain ohhhhhhhhhhhhh

billion_man: So naija is 4th in Africa?

agabaI23: I think the influence of our win will be reflected in the March Ranking because the Feb ranking was based on January performances of the countries. You can agree with me that most of the countries above us now like CV, Mali and Ghana were still doing very well in the competition. We eliminated both Mali and CV in Feb. Ghana was also eliminated in Feb.

vandarsar: Mali is playing good or are you a kid who just started following soccer yesternight? Mali was number three in Africa by default last year and they cement that with a smooth qualification to this year nations cup where they still manage to retain their 3rd position in Africa. Remember your own super eagle had one of the worst year in her football history last year and that's why we had to drop so low on the table.

Don't judge Mali by that 4:1 we trash them cause even Nigerians were flattered by that score line. And for me, 2 things are involved; is either Keshi was able to identify the strength and weaknesses of that team whom he has coached before or Nigeria helping Mali in the war back home is kinda too emotional for the Malian players to handle, either way I might be wrong.

Lastly, if you take your time to check the malian team u will find some real good qualities, players like sammassa, sow, sisokko, keita, diakitte etc so they are player who have been playing together for long and knows how to threat the ball well, and if you've been following African football very well, you will agree with me that Malian league is doing very well through Stade Maline.

tcalc: this was the post i quoted initially which has nothing to do with w/c or qualfn, but rather ironic to the thread. in ur attempt to escape ur guilt u posted the other. apparently u wish to persistently show ur inadequacies; ur disability is not physical as i know its very hard at times for people with so much obstinacy like u to admit mistakes filled with idiocy.

Ejiné: Mehn, I think NFF should grow some cojones and set us up on friendlies with 'the big guys' like Germany, Spain, Brazil, Italy, Argentina, Portugal etc.

Phuck it. It's not like they're untouchable. They're not gods. They can still lose matches!
I really have a lot of faith in our boys now.

With CONFIDENCE, we won't lose. Kpata kpata na draw!

blank:

Do you know anything about football at all? First do a little research on how FIFA calculate the rankings then you will understand.

goldfish80: Ivory coast couldn't make it to Semi-finals of τђΞ nations cup, why are they still ranked 1st?
FiFa nawao

agabaI23: Thank you for the infor. I actually started with 'I think' which makes my post a hypothesis. I went further to explain what I thought. Thank goodness you have the right information. It doesn't warrant your disparaging everyone though.

chingyjant:
Though i like your explanation but i beg to disagree.Many soccer pundits and administrators are still questioning the rationale behind this ranking.There are some countries that you and i know that they hardly play friendly matches.Mind you FIFA do grade the friendly matches played.A good example is Mali and some funny European countries way ahead of Nigeria.They barely play FIFA Grade A matches and even if they play they dont win.When it comes to major competitions they don't qualify or get eliminated in group stages still yet they are ahead of Nigeria.Even though for the past 8 years that our football has plunged we still qualify for AFCON and subsequent world cup,play a couple of friendlies but some of these countries that are ahead of Nigeria don't qualify for world cup,they don,t even do well in their continental football so i will like you to rescind your opinion of NLanders being myopic as pertaining to FIFA ranking

Havilah93: ...what baffles me is how Mali still manages to be ahead of us in 25th

Hon. Lord:
[color=#990000][/color]Until we learn to always do the right things, we will remain at the botom bellow our lower ties.

How can a country like Nigeria with over 150million citizens not be able to produce 7 different qualified teams to with-stand and represent Nigeria in a tournament? What a shame caused by corruption and zoning of everything including interlect which God has given to some persons to manage others!!!!!!!!

tomzman: I can still manage Ivory Coast and Ghana still being ahead of us but Mali?
Anyway hope that will change by next month.

Abrantie:

A couple of lucky good games maketh not a high FIFA ranking.

Seyiboy22: So quick

Seyiboy22: So quick