{"id":16970,"date":"2018-12-20T13:13:56","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T13:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saharafootball.net\/?p=16970"},"modified":"2018-12-20T13:13:56","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T13:13:56","slug":"fifa-rankings-ghana-no-6-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saharafootball.net\/fifa-rankings-ghana-no-6-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA Rankings: Ghana No.6 in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Ghana will remain at number 51 position in the overall FIFA rankings and number 6 in Africa as the year comes to an end.<\/h3>\n<p>The Black Stars have not played since November&#8217;s rankings and\u00a0so remain at 51 globally after gaining 1412 points.<\/p>\n<p>The four-time Africa champions also ended the year as the sixth best team on the continent.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"2G2dwVOpKS\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saharafootball.net\/full-list-2018-caf-awards-mukarama-makes-cut-thomas-partey-axed\/\">Full List of 2018 CAF Awards: Mukarama makes the cut, Thomas Partey axed<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Full List of 2018 CAF Awards: Mukarama makes the cut, Thomas Partey axed&#8221; &#8212; Sahara Football\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saharafootball.net\/full-list-2018-caf-awards-mukarama-makes-cut-thomas-partey-axed\/embed\/#?secret=KOcW90PXtl#?secret=2G2dwVOpKS\" data-secret=\"2G2dwVOpKS\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Senegal are still Africa&#8217;s topmost team with Tunisia (26) and Morocco (40) in the chasing pack.<\/p>\n<p>Belgium maintained first place after gaining\u00a01,727, just a single point\u00a0ahead of 2018 World Cup winners France.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Africa&#8217;s Top 10 on December&#8217;s FIFA rankings:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Senegal (23) Tunisia (26) Morocco (40) Nigeria (44) DR Congo (49) Ghana (51) Cameroon (55) Egypt (56) Burkina Faso (61) Mali (64)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana will remain at number 51 position in the overall FIFA rankings and number 6 in Africa as the year comes to an end. The Black Stars have not played since November&#8217;s rankings and\u00a0so remain at 51 globally after gaining 1412 points. The four-time Africa champions also ended the year as the sixth best team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8417],"tags":[1396,255,3638],"class_list":{"0":"post-16970","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-african-football","8":"category-featured","9":"tag-fifa-rankings","10":"tag-ghana","11":"tag-ghana-black-stars"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.saharafootball.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/BLACK-ST.jpg?fit=770%2C400&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8jzHl-4pI","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":23828,"url":"https:\/\/www.saharafootball.net\/ghana-move-four-places-latest-fifa-rankings\/","url_meta":{"origin":16970,"position":0},"title":"Ghana move up four places in latest FIFA Rankings","author":"Clinton Eleto","date":"November 28, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Ghana move up four places in latest FIFA Rankings Ghana have moved up four places in the latest FIFA ranking released on Thursday thanks to two victories over the past month. 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